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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + George Floyd witness regrets 'not doing more' + US leads criticism over Covid origins report + VW says 'Voltswagen' rebrand was early April Fool + French strike in Mali killed 19 civilians: UN + Electric devices could prevent 1,000 shark attacks US-racism-trial-police-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota The teenager who took the viral video of George Floyd's death says at the trial of the white police officer charged with killing the 46-year-old Black man that she knew at the time "it wasn't right." 750 words moved by Joy Powell with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. File Picture Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States leads a chorus of concern from a group of nations over a WHO-backed report into the origins of the coronavirus in China, with accusations swirling that Beijing failed to give proper access to the investigators. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Nina Larson and Robin Millard in Geneva and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-WHO-China,FOCUS Health-virus-world,FACTS Germany-US-automobile-environment,WRAP NEW YORK Volkswagen US' subsidiary is keeping its name and will not rename itself "Voltswagen," a company spokesman says, confirming that an earlier announcement was an April Fool's joke that may have gone further than intended. 700 words moved by John Biers Mali-unrest-France,WRAP BAMAKO A French air strike killed 19 civilians in Mali in January, a UN report says, prompting a strong denial from France. 700 words moved. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Mali-unrest-France,Q&A Australia-shark-attacks PARIS Systematic use of electronic devices designed to repel sharks could prevent more than 1,000 people from being chomped by the apex predators in Australian waters over the next five decades, researchers say. 500 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- SPOTLIGHT -- Egypt-Romania-Spain-Suez-shipping-livestock,FOCUS PARIS The blockage of the Suez Canal has cast a light on a very delicate kind of cargo: The millions of livestock shipped each year in conditions denounced by animal rights groups. 650 words moved by Nicolas Gubert Also moved: World-economy-health-virus-shipping,FOCUS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Brazil-food-hunger,FOCUS SAO PAULO The lines of homeless and other needy people waiting for free meals in the streets of Brazil are growing longer as the Covid-19 pandemic rages out of control. 750 words moved by Rodrigo Almonacid, with Eugenia Logiuratto in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video Health-virus-gender-equality-economy-WEF,lead GENEVA The pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women, according to a report showing the crisis had added decades to the trajectory towards closing the gender gap. 600 words moved by Nina Larson Health-virus-Germany-vaccines-AstraZeneca-restrict,2ndlead BERLIN Germany will deploy AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for general use only for over-60 year olds, the government says, imposing restrictions for younger people taking the jab after several severe clotting cases. 550 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Health-virus-Spain-vaccines-AstraZeneca Health-virus-Britain-swimming,FOCUS LONDON Taking a dip in the frigid ponds on Hampstead Heath in north London for the first time after months of coronavirus restrictions, swimmers say plunging into the cold water feels liberating. 600 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The US orders the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, as the death toll mounts from the junta's brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests. 550 words 0200 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video China-US-politics-diplomacy,ANALYSIS BEIJING It only took one meeting for hopes of a reset in US-China relations under a Biden presidency to evaporate -- instead alliances are fast coagulating on either side of an old dividing line: democracy. 750 words 0330 GMT by Patrick Baert -- AMERICAS -- US-Honduras-drugs-sentence-politics,WRAP NEW YORK Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother is sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country. 550 words 0230 GMT US-China-rights-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States will speak out about human rights everywhere including in allies and at home, Secretary of State Antony Blinken vows, turning a page from Donald Trump as he bemoans deteriorations around the world. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture Brazil-politics-army,WRAP BRASILIA President Jair Bolsonaro replaces all three commanders of Brazil's armed forces, in a second day of upheaval in Brasilia as the far-right leader braces against mounting pressure created by an explosion of Covid-19 deaths. 750 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture -- EUROPE -- Cyprus-EU-food-halloumi NICOSIA Cyprus hails a European Union decision to recognise halloumi cheese as a product distinct to the divided eastern Mediterranean island after a seven-year wait. 400 words moved. File picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-shipping-Suez-transport,WRAP ISMAILIA, Egypt Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledges investment to avoid any repetition of the past week's closure of the Suez Canal as he pays a celebratory visit to the reopened trade artery. 700 words by moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Syria-conflict-IS-France,FOCUS ROJ, Syria In a Syrian detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-of-five Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap. 850 words moved by Delil Souleiman. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-UN-EU-aid,WRAP BRUSSELS International donors pledge $6.4 billion in aid for Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries, falling well short of a UN target aimed at dealing with growing needs. 700 words moved by Max Delany. Picture. Video Morocco-women-cartoon-books,FOCUS CASABLANCA Young Moroccan cartoonist Zainab Fasiki draws on a whiteboard in a Casablanca studio where she is holding a workshop that mixes art with a homegrown illustrated #MeToo campaign. 650 words 0200 GMT by Sophie Pons. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICC-ICoast-unrest-Gbagbo,WRAP THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court will rule whether to uphold the acquittal of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, the first head of state to stand trial at the tribunal. 600 words 0400 GMT by Danny Kemp Mozambique-unrest,WRAP PEMBA, Mozambique Sporadic clashes break out in Palma as thousands of residents hide around the besieged northern Mozambique town, scrambling to escape the area overrun by jihadist militants, aid agencies say. 850 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Mozambique-unrest-jihadists-energy,FOCUS Africa-conflict-jihadists,FOCUS -- BUSINESS -- Markets-stocks-climate-fossil-fuels-finance PARIS Share offerings in fossil fuel producing and related companies lost $123 billion in the last decade, underperforming a baseline world equities index by 52 percent, according to new analysis. 600 words moved by Patrick Galey -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-environment-economy-agriculture-forests PARIS An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet's tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to new research. 750 words 0400 GMT by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic Climate-economy-coal-gas-subsidies PARIS No major economy in the world has carbon pricing policies even remotely in line with the Paris climate treaty goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degree Celsius, the OECD says. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- SCIENCE -- Space-interstellar-discovery PARIS A newly observed interstellar comet is the most pristine visitor from outer space ever seen in our Solar System, according to a pair of studies detailing its unique characteristics. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey and Marlowe Hood. File picture afp
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