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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart -- TOP STORIES -- + Navalny tests indicate poisoning: hospital + NZ mosque gunman's survivors recount ordeal + Trump opens combative bid for second term + Belarus presses crackdown after huge protest + Outrage in US after police shoot black man Germany-Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP BERLIN The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says that test results indicate he was poisoned, contradicting the findings of Russian doctors. 750 words 2000 GMT by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video Will also move: Germany-Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,FACTS NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court,3rdlead CHRISTCHURCH The white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosque shooting shows no emotion as distraught survivors confront him in court with harrowing accounts of the atrocity. 700 words moved by Chris Foley. Picture. Video US-politics-vote-Republicans-Trump,WRAP CHARLOTTE, North Carolina President Donald Trump opens his bid for a second term after securing the Republican nomination in typically combative, dark fashion with a claim that Democrats are working to "steal" the election that polls currently show him losing. 750 words 2030 GMT by Brendan Smialowski with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture Belarus-vote-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusian authorities step up arrests of political opponents and strike leaders, after Sunday saw the latest unprecedented demonstration against President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election. 650 words 1930 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video. Graphic US-police-shooting-racism,WRAP WASHINGTON Outrage spreads across the United States over a video showing white police shooting an unarmed Wisconsin man seven times in the back in front of his children as he tried to enter his car. 600 words 2030 GMT by Paul Handley. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States announces an emergency authorization to use blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients as a treatment for the disease, which has killed more than 800,000 people around the world. 650 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-US-plasma,Q&A WASHINGTON What is convalescent plasma? How much do we know so far about its safety and efficacy? Is the US letting political considerations get ahead of the science? 500 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-education-Mexico,lead MEXICO CITY Tens of millions of Mexican schoolchildren begin a new school year with lessons through their televisions in a nationwide experiment in distance learning prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words 2030 GMT by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-UN-diplomacy-constitution,l2ndead GENEVA Syrian constitutional talks at the UN are put on hold almost as soon as they started after three delegates test positive for COVID-19. 600 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-Republicans-convention-gunrights CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Were they exercising constitutional rights, or recklessly asserting their white privilege? The couple who brandished guns at protesters and have been rewarded with speaking slots at the Republican convention embody the culture wars gripping America. 550 words moved. File picture US-politics-aides WASHINGTON The resignation of Kellyanne Conway, a political aide to Donald Trump, adds to the long list of ministers, advisors and strategists who have left -- of their own will or not -- the 45th US president. 600 words moved. File picture US-China-IT-politics-TikTok SAN FRANCISCO Video app TikTok says it has filed a lawsuit challenging the US government's crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat. 650 words 2000 GMT by Glenn Chapman. File picture -- MIDEAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-US-UAE-diplomacy,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's prime minister and the visiting US top diplomat voice hope the Jewish state will soon build ties with more Arab countries, following its landmark move to normalise relations with the UAE. 750 words 1930 GMT by Stephen Weizman. Picture. Video Mideast-Gulf-Israel-politics,BACKGROUND DUBAI The UAE's decision to normalise ties with Israel has been welcomed by some Arab countries, but despite cheerleading from the US, others have rejected the idea and many approach it with caution. 770 words moved Libya-conflict BENGHAZI, Libya A spokesman for eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has slammed a ceasefire announcement by the rival Government of National Accord as a media stunt, accusing it of preparing a new offensive. 450 words moved Syria-conflict-blast,WRAP DAMASCUS War-torn Syria's government blames a "terrorist" attack on a gas pipeline near Damascus for a nationwide blackout, in the latest such alleged assault on its energy infrastructure. 650 words moved by Maher al-Mounes with Alice Hackman in Beirut. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-coup,WRAP BAMAKO West African envoys enter the third day of talks with Mali's new junta over how the troubled country should chart its return to civilian rule 500 words moved by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate. File picture. Graphic ICoast-vote-unrest,lead ABIDJAN Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara calls for peace after clashes that have claimed at least eight lives as he filed his candidacy for elections less than three months away. 500 words moved by Patrick Fort and Christophe Koffi. Picture -- ASIA -- India-disaster,WRAP MAHAD, India One person was killed and dozens feared trapped after a five-storey apartment building collapsed in western India, officials say, with a local legislator warning that the number could be as high as 200. 550 words 2000 GMT by Pritam Sakpal. Picture. Graphic. Video Philippines-unrest,WRAP JOLO, Philippines At least 14 people are killed and dozens wounded -- including soldiers and police -- in a twin bombing involving a suicide attacker on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants. 500 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Turkey-Greece-EU-politics-energy-Germany,lead ISTANBUL Turkey and Greece announce rival military exercises in the eastern Mediterranean for Tuesday as Germany prepares to take another crack at defusing the NATO allies' escalating row over natural gas. 500 words moved -- SPORT -- fbl-Eur-C1-FRA-GER-PSG-Bayern-demonstration-arrests,WRAP PARIS Over 150 people are arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans set cars ablaze, smash shop windows and clash with police in the French capital after the team's Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich, police say. 650 words moved by Riwan Marhic. Picture. Video Also moved: Fbl-Eur-C1-FRA-PSG,FOCUS afp
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