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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Russia, China hackers 'target US vote' + Deadly wildfires devastate US West Coast + Rio Tinto CEO out over Aboriginal fiasco + Lesbos migrants spend third night in open + Azarenka upsets Williams in US Open semi US-IT-vote-hacking,WRAP WASHINGTON Microsoft says it thwarted recent cyberattacks from China, Russia and Iran targeting both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns, as technology giants scramble to protect election security less than two months ahead of the US vote. 800 words moved by Rob Lever with Julie Jammot in San Francisco. File picture US-fires,WRAP CLOVIS, California Firefighters battle unprecedented wildfires up and down the US West Coast that killed 15 people and forced more than half a million people to flee their homes, with officials warning of more deaths to come in the days ahead. 850 words 0930 GMT by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-mining-indigenous-RioTinto,WRAP SYDNEY Rio Tinto's CEO and two other top officers resign after an uproar over the mining giant's destruction of a sacred Aboriginal site to expand an iron ore mine in Australia. 650 words moved by David Millikin. File picture. Graphic Greece-migrants-fire,WRAP LESBOS, Greece Thousands of asylum seekers spend a third night in the open on Lesbos after fires burn down their camp, as police reinforcements arrive on the island en masse. 650 words 1230 GMT by Marina Rafenberg. Picture. Graphic. Video Tennis-USA-Open,WRAP NEW YORK Victoria Azarenka came from a set down to stun record-chasing Serena Williams on Thursday and set up a US Open final against Japan's Naomi Osaka. 650 words moved by Peter Hutchinson. Picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain's government insists it is not abandoning EU talks, despite rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw Brexit legislation that has sparked a rebellion from outraged Conservatives in its own ranks. 650 words 1100 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-Japan-trade-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain secures its first major post-Brexit trade agreement -- a free trade deal with Japan -- the day after bitter wranglings with the European Union. 600 words 1200 GMT by James Pheby and Natsuko Fukue. File picture Russia-politics-vote,FOCUS NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia Russia is holding regional elections in a precarious political climate, with rallies rocking the Far East, an economic crisis exacerbated by the coronavirus, and the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 700 words moved by Romain Colas. Picture. Video Health-virus-Kosovo,FOCUS PRISTINA Kosovo's hospitals are brimming with Covid-19 patients but outside on the streets, a third of the population believes the pandemic is pure hoax. 700 words moved by Ismet Hajdari. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-fire,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanese firefighters put out a blaze at Beirut port that brought back the trauma of the devastating dockside explosion last month and destroyed badly needed food aid. 500 words 1000 GMT by Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Dylan Collins. Picture. Video Saudi-Ethiopia-migrants-rights-Yemen,FOCUS RIYADH Using a smuggled-in cellphone, a detained Ethiopian migrant pleads for help as he describes harrowing conditions in a Saudi detention centre: crowded and disease-ridden cells, food scarcity and suicides. 790 words 1100 GMT by Anuj Chopra. Graphic. Video Health-virus-Israel,FOCUS HAIFA, Israel Israel seeks to fight a new surge of Covid-19 cases with new regional lockdowns, with Arab-Israeli districts and villages especially hard hit in the second wave. 600 words 1300 GMT Majeda El-Batsh. Picture Iraq-history-Saddam-Baathist-archive,FOCUS BAGHDAD A trove of Saddam-era files secretly returned to Iraq has pried open the country's painful past, prompting hopes some may learn the fate of long-lost relatives but also fears of new bloodshed. 800 words moved by Maya Gebeily. File picture -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-talks,WRAP KABUL The Afghan government and the Taliban will this weekend embark on negotiations to end nearly two decades of war, though few expect a peace deal anytime soon. 600 words moved. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Afghanistan-conflict-talks,Q+A Afghanistan-conflict-talks,CHRONO Indonesia-Myanmar-Bangladesh-Rohingya-migration,FOCUS LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia When hundreds of Rohingya paid traffickers to escape their squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh earlier this year they were promised they were just a week away from a new life in Malaysia. 650 words moved by Sarina with Peter Brieger in Jakarta. Picture. Video. Graphic India-film-Bollywood-suicide-media,FOCUS MUMBAI India has over four million coronavirus cases and an explosive border standoff with China, but the story dominating television news for months is how a Bollywood actress supposedly drove her ex-boyfriend to suicide with pot and black magic. 750 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly. File Picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa-corruption,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG Coronavirus infections are on a steady decline in Africa, but the fight against the pandemic has been marred by embarrassing incidents of corruption that critics say is akin to treason and murder. 700 words 1030 GMT by Susan Njanji and African bureaus. File Picture. File video Sudan-floods-archaeology,SCENE AL-BAJRAWIYA, Sudan Archaeologists feared the worst when record Nile floodwaters threatened to overwhelm priceless ancient royal baths in Sudan, but prompt action averted disaster -- for now, at least. 550 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-9/11-Trump-Biden NEW YORK President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden will both visit the site where one of the planes hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks crashed in Pennsylvania, a state that is a key battleground in their bitter fight for the White House. 550 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture US-fires-driving-teen,SCENE CLOVIS, California Fourteen year-old Ruben Navarrete learned how to drive the hard way - heading down a steep narrow road at night with giant flames leaping behind him. 650 words moved by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video US-politics-vote-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump insists that he never lied to Americans about the dangers of coronavirus after a bombshell new book by journalist Bob Woodward revealed that he deliberately tried to downplay the crisis. 750 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Also moved: US-media-politics-Woodward,PROFILE Brazil-environment-fires,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO The Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, is burning at record-shattering pace this year as drought-fueled fires devastate its vegetation and celebrated wildlife in an environmental catastrophe. 700 words moved by Louis Genot. Video. File picture Colombia-unrest-police,WRAP BOGOTA At least 10 people are killed and hundreds wounded after rioting breaks out in the Colombian capital Bogota during protests over the death of a man repeatedly tasered by police, authorities say. 700 words moved by Hector Velasco and Linn Vanegas. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr,PREVIEW LONDON Jurgen Klopp has warned Liverpool's title rivals that splashing out on new signings is no guarantee of success as the Premier League champions start their new campaign against Leeds on Saturday. 700 words moved by Steve Griffiths. File Picture RugbyU-RC-2020-SANZAAR,2ndlead SYDNEY Australia is picked over New Zealand to host the coronavirus-affected Rugby Championship, but the pandemic may prevent world champions South Africa from even taking part. 600 words moved by Martin Parry. File picture -- BUSINESS -- US-banking-executive-Citigroup,WRAP NEW YORK Citigroup's Jane Fraser will become the first woman to lead a major Wall Street firm after the banking giant picks her as its next chief executive. 700 words moved by John Biers -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-Canada-US-film-Toronto LOS ANGELES Spike Lee kicks off a unique Toronto film festival with a tribute to black victims of police violence, as his latest movie premieres online and at drive-in screenings due to coronavirus. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal with Michel Comte in Ottawa. File picture afp
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