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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Israel's opposition leader tapped to form govt + Facebook oversight panel upholds ban on Trump + G7 ends talks with rebuke of China, Russia, Iran + France marks 200th anniversary of Napoleon death + Mourners pay tribute to S.Africa's Zulu queen Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Opposition leader Yair Lapid is handed a mandate to form an Israeli government, after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to cobble a coalition following the country's fourth inconclusive vote in less than two years. 750 words 1930 GMT by Ben Simon. Picture. File Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics-Lapid US-politics-IT-Facebook-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON Facebook's independent oversight board upholds a ban on former US president Donald Trump while ordering further review of the case, in a ruling with a potentially far-reaching impact on the regulation of online speech. 700 words moved by Rob Lever. Picture Also moved: US-IT-politics-Trump,FACTS Moving: US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump,Q&A Britain-G7-diplomacy,WRAP LONDON The Group of Seven wealthy democracies wrap up their first in-person meeting in more than two years, accusing China of human rights abuses and a crackdown on pro-democracy figures, while voicing fears about Russian aggression against Ukraine. 700 words 2030 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Britain-G7-diplomacy-US-Japan-SKorea,lead France-history-Napoleon-politics,WRAP PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte 200 years after his death, on an anniversary that has been dragged into a heated national debate about "cancel culture". 700 words moved by Adam Plowright. Picture. Video Also moved: France-history-Napoleon-Belgium-museum,FOCUS SAfrica-royals-people-Zulu,lead JOHANNESBURG Mourners in leopardskin regalia gather outside a Johannesburg morgue to accompany the body of the late Zulu regent queen, whose sudden death last week came less than two months after that of her husband, King Goodwill Zwelithini -- the longest-serving leader of South Africa's largest ethnic group. 400 words moved. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Ghana-music-Afrobeats,FOCUS ACCRA On Saturday night at the Purple Pub in Ghana's capital Accra even the pandemic and an official shutdown of bars and clubs can't stop the music. 800 words moved by Marine Jeannin. Picture. Video Venezuela-health-education-contraception,FOCUS VIDONO, Venezuela Teenage pregnancies are an increasing issue in poor rural communities such as Vidono, Venezuela where there's a lack of sexual and reproductive education and even less public promotion of contraception methods. 600 words moved by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India's pandemic death toll hits a new daily record amid fears the peak is still to come, as the world's wealthiest democracies back vaccine-sharing for poorer countries. 800 words 2000 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-US-vaccine-promotions,FOCUS WASHINGTON Free beer, free doughnuts, free baseball games and savings bonds -- government officials and businesses are teaming up to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19. 600 words 1930 GMT by Cyril Julien and Chris Lefkow. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump-fraud,FOCUS WASHINGTON Social media has been his weapon of choice for containing Republican dissidents, but Donald Trump is seeking to tighten his iron grip on the party even after a ruling extending his ban on Facebook. 750 words 2030 GMT by Michael Mathes. File picture US-politics-diplomacy-defense-Taiwan-China,FOCUS WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden is expected to announce his strategy toward China soon, and calls are growing for him to make a clear public commitment to defend Taiwan militarily in the event of Chinese aggression. 650 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-students,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Nearly 30 students kidnapped by gunmen from their college two months ago in northwest Nigeria have been freed, a local state official says, ending one of a series of mass abductions plaguing the West African country since late last year. 450 words 2000 GMT by Aminu Abubakar Mali-France-media-kidnapping,WRAP BAMAKO A missing French journalist says he was kidnapped in Mali by a jihadist group with links to Al-Qaeda, according to a video circulating on social media, the latest foreigner to be taken hostage in the West African country. 650 words moved by Serge Daniel. Picture. File picture. Video Also moved: Mali-France-media-kidnapping,FACTS Science-archaeology-anthropology-burial-Africa,FOCUS PARIS A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers report. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Picture -- EUROPE -- Germany-Belarus-justice-torture,WRAP BERLIN Ten Belarusians file a criminal complaint in Germany against President Alexander Lukashenko and members of his regime for crimes against humanity. 600 words moved by Femke Colborne Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-fishing-France-Jersey,2ndlead LONDON Britain calls French threats to cut off electricity to the Channel Island of Jersey "unacceptable" in an escalating row over post-Brexit fishing rights. 450 words moved -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-US,WRAP LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan American warplanes are backing Afghan forces against a major Taliban offensive in the south of the country even as the US military presses on with a troop withdrawal, officials say, but insurgents still capture a northern district. 700 words 1930 GMT. Picture -- MIDEAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-Turkey-diplomacy,FOCUS CAIRO Turkey and Egypt have begun slowly warming ties as they vie for regional primacy a decade after the Arab Spring, but analysts say deep-seated mistrust means full normalisation will take time. 800 words moved by Farid Farid. Picture. Video -- CLIMATE -- Climate-Greenland-Antarctica-glaciers-oceans-warming,lead PARIS Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could halve how much sea levels rise due to melting ice sheets this century, according to a major new study modelling how Earth's frozen spaces will respond to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. 700 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic Germany-climate-politics-environment,WRAP BERLIN The German government says it will set more ambitious targets to reduce CO2 emissions after a landmark ruling by the country's top court declared a flagship climate protection law "insufficient". 600 words moved by Kit Holden. File picture -- CULTURE -- France-ElSalvador-history-literature PARIS It was a romance that helped inspire one of the great works of 20th-century fiction and a bitter conflict between his heirs, but a new book of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's love letters suggests a reconciliation may finally have been achieved. 650 words moved by Hugues Honore afp
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