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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US election kicks off with postal vote + Trump casts doubt on Navalny poisoning + Serbia and Kosovo strike economic pact + WHO tempers hopes of quick-fix vaccine + Messi says forced to stay at Barcelona US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON The US election is officially open: North Carolina launches vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, which is getting uglier by the hour. 700 words moved by Jerome Cartillier with Michael Mathes in Wilmington, Delaware. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Trump,SCENE Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment Russia-politics-Navalny-US,WRAP MOSCOW Russia defies threats of new Western sanctions over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as US President Donald Trump says he has seen no proof that the Kremlin critic was a victim of Moscow's Novichok nerve agent programme. 600 words 0200 GMT by Anna Smolchenko. File picture. File video. Graphic Also moved: Britain-Russia-politics-Navalny-Salisbury,FOCUS Kosovo-Serbia-US-politics-peace,WRAP WASHINGTON Former foes Kosovo and Serbia agree to normalize economic relations in a US-brokered deal that the administration of President Donald Trump is touting as a major diplomatic success. 650 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The World Health Organization says it does not expect widespread immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021, despite growing expectations in the US and beyond that a vaccine could be released within weeks. 700 words moved by Nina Larson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Messi,WRAP BARCELONA Lionel Messi says he will stay at Barcelona but only because the club's president Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his word to let him leave and that the lone way out was "to pay the 700-million-euro release clause". 700 words 0200 GMT by Tom Allnutt. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- Lebanon-blast,WRAP BEIRUT Rescuers resume a search for a possible survivor under rubble in Beirut, buoyed by faint hopes of a miracle a month after a monster blast ripped through the Lebanese capital's port. 750 words moved by Layal Abu Rahal and Dylan Collins. Picture. Video. Live Video Also moved: Lebanon-blast-recovery,FOCUS Lebanon-blast,FACTS Israel-Serbia-Kosovo-US-diplomacy,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel scores two diplomatic gains when majority-Muslim Kosovo agrees to recognize the Jewish state and Serbia says it will move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. 650 words moved -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy-politics-Berlusconi,WRAP MILAN Italy's flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest high-profile figure to contract the disease. 700 words moved by Celine Cornu. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-politics-Berlusconi,PROFILE Health-virus-Ireland-pubs,FOCUS DUNMORE, Ireland The lengthy coronavirus shutdown of pubs in Ireland has hit the people of Dunmore particularly hard, with Guinness glasses gathering dust and kegs stacked dormant. 750 words 0300 GMT by Joe Stenson. Video. Picture -- ASIA -- SriLanka-India-tanker-accident-energy,WRAP COLOMBO Tugboats battle to stop a blazing oil tanker carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude from drifting towards the Sri Lankan coast. 550 words moved by Amal Jayasinghe. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-media-misinformation,FOCUS WASHINGTON Negative campaigning has long been a fixture in American politics, but the open use of digitally-altered images by Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team is unprecedented and has tech giants worried. 750 words 0230 GMT by Ian Timberlake and Arthur MacMillan. Picture US-racism-unrest-Portland,FOCUS PORTLAND, Oregon One was a far-right activist, the other a member of the far-left Antifa movement. Both men paid with their lives after getting drawn into the anti-racism demonstrations that have shaken the US for the last three months. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. File picture Also moved: US-politics-farright-IT,WRAP US-racism-unrest-Portland,Q&A -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-army-coup-politics,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's military junta prepares to hold meetings on its promised transition to civilian rule, weeks after overthrowing the nation's beleaguered president. 600 words 0130 GMT. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ARG-ESP-Barcelona-Messi,FOCUS ROSARIO, Argentina When Messi told Barcelona he wanted to quit the club, some back in his hometown and at Newell's Old Boys, the club where he played junior football, allowed themselves to imagine the 33-year-old superstar returning home to play for his boyhood team. 550 words 0130 GMT by Jorgelina Hiba. Picture. Video afp
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