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| - Duty Editor: Yana Dlugy Contact: Engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Russia posts second day of record city Covid deaths + France's Macron, Le Pen face new test in regional vote + Toll from US building collapse creeps to 5, 156 missing + Colombia offers reward over attack on presidential helicopter + Ronaldo and Lukaku resume rivalry in big Euro clash Health-virus,WRAP MOSCOW Moscow posts a record coronavirus death toll, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extend or reimpose restrictions to tackle fresh waves of infections. 650 words 1030 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic France-vote,WRAP PARIS France is voting in the second round of regional elections after a first round that saw a drubbing for President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party, disappointment for Marine Le Pen's far-right and record low turnout. 700 words 1300 GMT by Pierre Donadieu and Stuart Williams. Picture, video US-accident-construction,WRAP SURFSIDE, Florida The death toll from the partial collapse of a Florida high-rise apartment building rises to five as officials continue to hold out hope for survivors, following the release of an engineering report from three years ago that warned of "major structural damage." 800 words moved by Cyril Julien. Picture. Video. Graphic Colombia-Venezuela-attack BOGOTA The Colombian government says it is offering a reward of nearly $800,000 for information leading to the capture of those behind a gun attack on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque near the Venezuela border. 500 words moved fbl-Euro-2020-2021 PARIS Cristiano Ronaldo and Romelu Lukaku resume their domestic rivalry on the international stage as holders Portugal and in-form Belgium face off in the biggest tie of Euro 2020's last 16. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Belarus-politics-unrest-tech,FOCUS KIEV Like thousands of others in Belarus, IT specialist Aliaksandr Charnavoki took to the streets of Minsk last year for unprecedented protests against strongman Alexander Lukashenko's 26-year rule. 700 words moved by Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture -- EUROPE -- US-Italy-Israel-Palestinians-diplomacy-conflict PARIS US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's new top diplomat Yair Lapid, in the United States' first face-to-face meeting with the freshly installed government that seeks a less combative approach with its main ally Washington. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon -- AMERICAS -- US-accident-construction-memorial,SCENE SURFSIDE, Florida The scores of people missing in the collapse of the beachfront condo building in Florida are no longer just a dry number but now have names and faces thanks to a makeshift memorial erected nearby. 600 words moved by Cyril Julien. Picture. Video US-politics-Trump,WRAP WELLINGTON, Ohio Donald Trump holds his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech to an adoring crowd in the first of a series of appearances ahead of next year's midterm elections. 500 words moved by Fabian Erik Schluter. Picture. Video US-health-opioids-J&J,WRAP WASHINGTON Johnson & Johnson, one of the pharmaceutical giants accused of fueling the deadly opioid crisis in the United States, reaches a settlement with the state of New York for $230 million and confirms it will stop making or selling opioids in the US. 650 words moved by Delphine Touitou US-racism-education-minorities,FOCUS NEW YORK The recent dismissal of a white New York professor for reading aloud the "N-word" from a Mark Twain novel has shone a spotlight on the use of racial slurs in American classrooms. 700 words moved by Thomas Urbain. File picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Australia,2ndlead SYDNEY Millions of Sydney residents begin the first full day of a two-week coronavirus lockdown, as Australia imposes new restrictions to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. 650 words moved. Picture China-diplomacy-politics,FOCUS BEIJING For over a year they've whipped up outrage against the West, but as China's "wolf warrior" diplomats are told to tone down the fury they face an unexpected source of opposition: nationalists at home. 700 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-unrest-tribes-social,FOCUS BAGHDAD In Iraq, a war-scarred country awash with weapons, even a row over a duck or a cockerel or squabbling between nine-year-olds can degenerate into deadly tribal clashes. 700 words by Salam Faraj. Picture -- SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT -- India-animal-conservation-pig MANAS A dozen of the world's smallest pigs have been released into the wild in northeastern India as part of a conservation programme to boost the population of a species once thought to have become extinct. 350 words moved. Picture. Video -- LIFESTYLE -- India-food-celebrity-lifestyle,INTERVIEW MUMBAI The coal-fired tandoor oven sends a mouth-watering scent wafting through the Mumbai kitchen as celebrity chef Saransh Goila, maker of the world's "best butter chicken" according to Masterchef Australia, takes a break from Covid-19 relief efforts and resumes work. 600 words moved by Nivrita Ganguly. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- fbl-Maradona-ARG-justice-Argentina,ADVANCER BUENOS AIRES Argentine prosecutors will on Monday question Diego Maradona's personal physician, implicated with six other medical professionals in having neglected the ailing football icon in his final days. 550 words moved. Graphic afp
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