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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Global economic cost of pandemic mounts + Google parent Alphabet grows despite coronavirus + Lebanese anger over economy spills into streets + Hollywood mulls new moves to restart shooting + British PM's partner gives birth to baby boy Health-virus,WRAP BERLIN European countries try to balance how far they ease coronavirus lockdowns, with Germany enforcing mandatory masks in all shops, as the crushing global economic cost of the pandemic becomes clearer. 800 words 1030 GMT by Femke Colborne, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-US-IT-earnings-Alphabet-Google,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Google parent Alphabet outshines dim earnings expectations, showing higher revenue and profits despite a coronavirus-induced slowdown in its core digital advertising operations in March. 650 words moved by Glenn Chapman. File Picture Lebanon-politics,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanon's under-fire central bank chief is set to speak as anger over corruption and economic mismanagement spills back into the streets in defiance of a coronavirus lockdown. 500 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video Entertainment-health-US-virus-Hollywood,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Movie moguls, directors and lawyers are searching for radical solutions to reopen Hollywood as soundstages gather dust and studio profits slide weeks after cameras stopped rolling due to coronavirus. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File Picture. Video Britain-politics-Johnson-baby LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds has given birth to a "healthy baby boy" in a London hospital, a spokesman for the couple says. 500 words 1000 GMT by Alice Ritchie. -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy-wine,FOCUS TREVISO,Italy With Italy's restaurants and bars closed for another month and global trade snuffed out by the coronavirus, the world's top wine producing country is experiencing an existential crisis. 650 words moved by Giovanna Girardi with Celine Cornu. Picture. Video Health-virus-Spain-fitness,FOCUS MADRID Spaniards have snapped up exercise equipment online and turned to detergent bottles, umbrellas and other household items to keep up their exercise routines during one of world's toughest coronavirus lockdowns which is about to be eased. 650 words moved by Daniel Silva. File picture Health-virus-Russia-homeless,FOCUS MOSCOW Pushing aside a flap, hungry men and women enter a darkened tent in the courtyard of a Moscow church -- one of the few places they can find food in the locked-down Russian capital. 650 words 1000 GMT by Maria Antonova. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict,Q&A JERUSALEM The Arab League plans to discuss US-backed Israeli plans to annex large parts of the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank. Here are key questions on the move that threatens to inflame tensions in the volatile region. 780 words 1000 GMT Health-virus-UAE-retail-tourism,SCENE DUBAI Clutching bags from designer boutiques in their gloved hands, Emiratis return to Dubai Mall, one of the world's largest shopping centres, which has reopened under strict conditions to ward off coronavirus. 600 words 1000 GMT by Aziz El Massassi. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica-women-violence,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG More than 120,000 victims have rung South Africa's national helpline for abused women and children during the first three weeks after a coronavirus lockdown started on March 27 -- double the usual volume of calls. 750 words 0930 GMT by Beatrice Debut and Tanya Steenkamp. Video. File Picture Health-virus-Senegal,FOCUS DAKAR Senegal launches an aid scheme to deliver essentials such as food and soap to millions of poor people as coronavirus-related restrictions begin to cause economic turmoil. 700 words 1030 GMT by Malick Ba. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-testing,SCENE NEW YORK In the epicenter of the US pandemic, hundreds of New Yorkers for the first time get the chance to be tested for new coronavirus even though they don't have severe symptoms, a step crucial to safely reopening the economy. 550 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture Health-virus-Ecuador,FOCUS GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador Frontline medics in one of Latin America's coronavirus hotspots are lifting the lid on the daily horrors they face in an Ecuadoran city whose health system has collapsed. 800 words moved by AFP reporters with Paola Lopez in Quito. Video. Picture Health-virus-Peru-prison,WRAP LIMA Nine inmates are killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting breaks out at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from COVID-19, authorities in Peru say. 500 words moved by Carlos Mandujano. Video Health-virus-US-IT-technology,FOCUS WASHINGTON Governments and organizations around the world are mulling the use of hotly-debated "immunity passports" aimed at easing pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions on movements -- but global health authorities and experts are urging caution. 800 words moved by Rob Lever -- ASIA -- India-film-Irrfan,OBIT MUMBAI Acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose international movie career included hits such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "Life of Pi" and "The Amazing Spider-Man", has died aged 53, his publicist says. 600 words moved by Udita Jhunjhunwala. File picture. File video Australia-indigenous-history-anniversary-colonialism BOTANY BAY The 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's contentious landing in Australia goes largely unmarked as the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of long-planned commemorative events. 600 words moved. Picture Health-virus-China-politics,2ndlead BEIJING China's parliament will hold its annual session next month after being delayed due to the coronavirus, state media says, signalling the communist leadership's growing confidence in taming the epidemic. 600 words moved by Laurie Chen and Jing Xuan Teng Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-US-diplomacy,ANALYSIS KABUL Two months after the US and the Taliban signed a deal Washington heralded as the way to end Afghanistan's war, violence is spiralling out of control and experts say a fragile peace process risks collapse. 750 words moved by Elise Blanchard with Thomas Watkins in Washington Health-virus-Indonesia,FOCUS JAKARTA From shirtless soldiers to teens suntanning on their parents' driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hopes that the tropical country's plentiful sunshine will ward off coronavirus. 500 words moved by Safrin Labatu. File picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-US-manufacturing-earnings-3M-fraud,WRAP NEW YORK Industrial giant 3M reports higher quarterly profits as it ramps up production of N95 respirators and combats price-gouging and fraud during the coronavirus outbreak. 600 words moved by John Biers -- SPORTS -- Golf-CHN-anniversary,FOCUS HONG KONG Twenty-five years ago professional tournament golf took its first steps in China and, despite a few stumbles, paved the way to establishing the sport in a country where it was once banned as a "bourgeois pursuit for millionaires". 750 words moved by Daniel Hicks. File picture Myanmar-sport-bodybuilding-elderly-offbeat,FOCUS YANGON Flexing his oiled, bulging biceps and pecs, 91-year-old one-time body-building champion Sein Maung admires himself in the mirror before starting to pump iron in his Myanmar gym. 400 words moved by Lapyae Ko. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-health-US-virus-Trolls-theaters,lead LOS ANGELES The leading US movie theater chain says it will no longer play any Universal Pictures movies on its screens as a row over the record-breaking release of "Trolls World Tour" on streaming platforms sharply escalated. 500 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File Picture afp
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