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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Tel: +33 783578721 -- TOP STORIES -- + Millions back in confinement as vaccine hope grows + Trump ends HK trade privileges, infuriating China + US drops plan to revoke visas for foreign students + European court annuls EU's Apple tax decision + Study foresees world population 2 bn below forecast Health-virus,WRAP HONG KONG Millions of people face new coronavirus restrictions as infections surge, but in one sign of hope, an American firm says it will soon start final-stage human trials for a possible vaccine. 700 words moved by Qasim Nauman with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic HongKong-China-politics-US-trade-sanctions,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump strips Hong Kong of preferential trade treatment and authorizes sanctions on banks over China's clampdown in the financial hub, infuriating Beijing which has vowed to retaliate. 600 words moved by Shaun Tandon Health-virus-US-politics-education-court,WRAP NEW YORK The United States government has rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to coronavirus, a federal judge says. 550 words moved by Catherine Triomphe EU-tax-Apple,WRAP BRUSSELS A European court annuls an EU order that Apple repay Ireland 13 billion euros in back taxes, in a major legal setback for Brussels. 600 words 1300 GMT by Alex Pigman. File picture. File video World-population-economy-migration PARIS Earth will be home to 8.8 billion people in 2100, two billion fewer than current UN projections, according to a major study that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates and greying populations. 850 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Graphic -- EUROPE -- NMacedonia-vote,WRAP SKOPJE North Macedonia votes in a tight parliamentary election where the winners will face a deadly coronavirus outbreak and the start of talks to join the European Union. 600 words 1300 GMT by Darko Duridanski. Picture. Video Also moved: NMacedonia-vote,FACTS NMacedonia-vote,PROFILE Italy-US-trial-murder ROME An Italian policeman is to take the stand in the trial of two US students accused of the murder of his partner during a failed drug bust last year. 500 words moved by Ella Ide Health-virus-Norway,FOCUS OSLO While the novel coronavirus pandemic is ravaging the world, some of Norway's funeral homes ironically have found themselves without work and have turned to the state for aid. 550 words moved by Pierre-Henry Deshayes. File picture -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-media-NYTimes,WRAP HONG KONG The New York Times says it is moving its digital news hub from Hong Kong to South Korea as a result of a national security law Beijing imposed on the city last month and trouble obtaining visas. 600 words moved by Jerome Taylor HongKong-China-politics-education,FOCUS HONG KONG China's new security law has sent a chill through Hong Kong's schools and universities with many teachers fearful the city's reputation for academic freedom and excellence is now at risk. 700 words moved by Jerome Taylor and Su Xinqi. File Picture Asia-labour-garments-unions,FOCUS BANGKOK From factory floors in India to the warehouses of Cambodia, garment workers for global brands say the collapse in demand triggered by coronavirus is being used as a cover to break their unions. 850 words moved by Sophie Deviller and AFP bureaus. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-economy-crime,FOCUS BEIRUT Zakaria al-Omar was walking through Beirut when a stranger robbed him at knifepoint while tearfully explaining his family needed food, a desperate crime of a kind that has become more common in crisis-torn Lebanon. 650 words moved by Rouba El-Husseini Health-virus-Egypt-poverty,FOCUS CAIRO Wandering Cairo's bustling streets, Zeinab was struggling to survive by selling paper tissues when the coronavirus left her even more vulnerable, along with thousands of other homeless people and street children. 700 words moved by Hager Harabech. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-Sessions,2ndlead WASHINGTON Former US attorney general Jeff Sessions's political comeback screeches to a halt in Alabama when he loses his bid to reclaim his old Senate seat to a political novice who earned President Donald Trump's endorsement. 450 words moved Health-virus-vaccine-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON The US biotech firm Moderna says it will enter the final stage of human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine on July 27, after promising early results were published in an influential journal. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed US-politics-vote-climate-Biden,2ndlead WILMINGTON, Delaware White House hopeful Joe Biden unveils an ambitious, $2 trillion climate change plan that would revamp the US energy sector and seek to achieve carbon pollution-free power in just 15 years. 550 words moved by Olivier Douliery, with Michael Mathes in Washington. Picture US-Britain-crime-justice-Epstein-Maxwell,WRAP NEW YORK British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pleads not guilty in a New York court to sex trafficking minors for her former partner, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, as a judge denied her bail. 750 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video US-banking-earnings-JPMorgan,WRAP NEW YORK Three major US banks set aside an additional $23 billion as a backstop against bad loans, highlighting the brittle state of the US economy due to the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by John Biers Health-virus-Chile-dogs SANTIAGO Police in Chile are training dogs to detect people that may be infected with the novel coronavirus by sniffing their sweat. 450 words moved. Picture -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- WTO-trade-politics GENEVA The eight candidates battling to become the next head of the beleaguered World Trade Organization make their pitches this week, with three days of auditions. 500 words 0930 GMT by Robin Millard -- CLIMATE -- Climate-environment-methane-warming PARIS Emissions of methane -- a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide -- have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by mankind's insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concludes 500 words moved by Patrick Galey afp
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