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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Large study confirms Pfizer vaccine 94% effective + Tiger Woods' crash injuries cast doubt on future + Australia passes law forcing tech firms to pay for news + 23 tonnes of cocaine seized in record European haul + Springsteen fined for drinking tequila in park Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine proves 94 percent effective in a huge real world study that involved 1.2 million people in Israel, raising hopes for mass immunization campaigns aimed at bringing the coronavirus pandemic under control. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed with Kent Mensah in Accra. Picture. Video. Graphic Golf-USPGA-Woods-accident,WRAP LOS ANGELES US golf legend Tiger Woods is recovering in hospital after surgery for serious leg injuries sustained in a car crash that have raised fears for the 45-year-old's career. 800 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Golf-USPGA-Woods,PROFILE Golf-USPGA-Woods,REAX Golf-USPGA-Woods,FACTS Australia-US-IT-politics-media,WRAP SYDNEY Australia's parliament passes landmark legislation requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world. 650 words 0700 GMT by Andrew Beatty Germany-Belgium-Netherlands-crime-drugs,2ndlead BERLIN Investigators have seized 23 tonnes of cocaine in a record haul of the drug in Europe, with a street value of billions of euros, German customs say. 400 words moved. Picture Entertainment-US-music-court-Springsteen,WRAP NEW YORK Bruce Springsteen has been fined $540 after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a national recreation area where drinking is banned, a federal judge rules. 550 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Philippines-internet-rights,FOCUS MANILA Philippine lawmaker Sarah Elago faces a daily barrage of Facebook posts linking her to communist rebels trying to overthrow the government. She says the claims are false, but they could get her killed anyway. 1,000 words moved by Cecil Morella and Jake Soriano. Picture. Video China-lifestyle-cinema-film,FOCUS SHANGHAI Audiences are cramming into Chinese cinemas to watch a sentimental comedy that has rapidly become one of the most popular films of all time in the country and marks a triumphant debut for its female director. 600 words moved by Peter Stebbings with Lan Lianchao. Picture. Video Mozambique-unrest-displaced,SCENE CHIURE, Mozambique After witnessing jihadist fighters take his wife, Idrisse Saha Cachimo fled his home in northern Mozambique. Six months later, he has a new house far from the conflict, but says he would do anything to return home. 600 words moved by Emidio Jozine and Alfredo Zuniga. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-intelligence-CIA-espionage,WRAP WASHINGTON Veteran US diplomat William Burns, nominated to lead the CIA, pledges to keep the agency free of politics and says China will be his main focus if confirmed. 650 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture Ecuador-prison-riots,WRAP CUENCA, Ecuador The body count from simultaneous riots at four prisons in Ecuador rises as family members claim the remains of loved ones lost in hours of full-out gang warfare. 650 words moved by Rodrigo Matute. Picture. Video. Graphic Venezuela-EU-politics-diplomacy-sanctions,WRAP CARACAS Venezuela expels the European Union's ambassador in response to new sanctions, giving the Portuguese envoy 72 hours to leave the country and raising the bloc's renewed ire. 650 words moved. Picture. Video US-Mexico-drugs-Coronel,PROFILE NEW YORK Emma Coronel Aispuro's resume is dense: model, social media influencer and fashion designer, small-town beauty queen at 17, wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman a year later. 600 words moved by Laura Bonilla. File Picture US-politics-semiconductors-automobile-Biden,WRAP NEW YORK Alarmed over a semiconductor crunch that forced US carmakers to cut production, President Joe Biden vows to bring an end to shortages of critical items. 700 words moved by John Biers -- EUROPE -- Syria-conflict-Germany-trial-warcrimes,WRAP KOBLENZ, Germany A former Syrian intelligence service agent is sentenced to four and a half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity in the first court case over state-sponsored torture by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. 760 words moved by Yannick Pasquet. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Syria-conflict-Germany-trial-warcrimes-Caesar,FACTS Health-virus-EU-summit BRUSSELS EU leaders meet under pressure to speed Europe's coronavirus vaccine roll-out and divided over border closures and on what introducing vaccine travel certificates could mean. 700 words moved by Marc Burleigh Bulgaria-health-virus-vaccines-government,FOCUS SOFIA Bulgarians of all ages, some as young as 20, joined long queues at hospitals this weekend, after low uptake on the priority lists led the government to open up vaccinations to everyone. 700 words moved by Diana Simeonova. Picture. Video Germany-animal-hunting-food,FOCUS ASPISHEIM, Germany With her dreadlocks and nose piercing, Shanna Reis doesn't exactly look the part of the camouflage-clad hunter tracking game in the forest. 660 words moved by Jean-Philippe Lacour. Picture. Video Spain-politics-history-Franco MADRID Spain's north African enclave of Melilla has removed the country's last public statue of former dictator General Francisco Franco 45 years after his death. 380 words moved. File picture -- AFRICA -- Niger-vote,WRAP NIAMEY Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane claims he has narrowly won Niger's presidential elections, as fresh violence erupts a day after official results gave victory to his rival by a wide margin. 760 words moved by Boureima Hama and Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Graphic. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-politics-vote,FOCUS TEHRAN Iran will vote in June for a successor to President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate-reformist government, but politics in the country is dominated by the nuclear issue and no frontrunner has emerged. 820 words moved by Ahmad Parhizi. File Picture Egypt-prisoners-politics,FOCUS CAIRO Already faced with the prospect of spending several years in overcrowded and often violent jails, Egypt's political prisoners are often charged with crimes they allegedly committed while behind bars. 650 words moved by Farid Farid. File Picture Gulf-technology-Huawei-China-security,FOCUS DUBAI Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is enjoying an extended honeymoon with oil-rich Gulf nations, despite being criticised in the United States and Europe as a potential security threat. 600 words moved by Aziz EL Massassi. Picture afp
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