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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Ethiopia orders 'final' assault on Tigray leaders + World mourns football icon Maradona + US marks Thanksgiving in shadow of virus + Turkey jails hundreds for 2016 coup bid + Baby gives hope to dwindling chimp tribe Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed orders Ethiopia's army to launch a "final" offensive against Tigray's dissident leaders in their regional capital Mekele, saying the deadline for their surrender had expired. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,CHRONO Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,FACTS Fbl-ARG-Argentina-Maradona-death,WRAP BUENOS AIRES Tens of thousands of Argentines file past Diego Maradona's coffin in Buenos Aires as the country and the world of football mourns one of the greatest footballers of all time following his death at the age of 60. 750 words 1530 GMT by Maria Lorente. Picture. File Picture. Video. Graphic. Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Millions of Americans defy public heath guidelines to spend a subdued Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends as coronavirus deaths surge worldwide. 500 words 1600 GMT by Daniel Woolls. Picture. Video Turkey-coup-trial,WRAP ANKARA A Turkish court jails more than 300 former pilots and other suspects for life in one of the largest trials stemming from the bloody 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 600 words 1500 GMT by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video Guinea-conservation-chimpanzee,lead CONAKRY A dwindling tribe of chimpanzees in Guinea famous for uncanny abilities to use tools has a glimmer of hope after its last fertile female gave birth. 500 words 1530 GMT by Mouctar Bah with Laurent Lozano in Dakar -- MARADONA -- Fbl-ARG-Argentina-Maradona-death-Napoli-Naples,SCENE NAPLES A cry of "Diego, Diego, Diego" goes up outside the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, where since daybreak tearful mourners have been laying candles and messages for Diego Maradona, who made the poor southern Italian city a football powerhouse. 500 words moved by Kelly Valasquez. Picture. Video. Fbl-ARG-Maradona-coach,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES The defining moment in Diego Maradona's playing career came in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup, and the high point in his far less distinguished career as a coach possibly came in an infamous Mexican drug cartel's city more than three decades later. 650 words moved. File picture Fbl-ARG-Maradona,OBIT BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona was football's archetypal troubled genius, a world-beating player whose life and career scaled the most dazzling heights but also plumbed the darkest depths. 1,000 words moved. File picture Also moving: Fbl-ARG-ENG-Maradona-death-agent-Smith Also moved: Argentina-Maradona-death,SCENE Fbl-Maradona-ARG-ENG-WC-1986 Fbl-Maradona-Pele,FOCUS Fbl-Maradona-Goals-Five Fbl-ARG-Maradona,QUOTES -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-Britain-virus LONDON London will escape the tightest restrictions once England's national coronavirus lockdown ends next week, the government says, but major cities including Manchester and Birmingham face at least two more weeks of tough rules. 430 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-France-ski,lead PARIS French winter sport resorts are free to open for the Christmas holiday season but ski lifts will have to remain shut to combat the pandemic, Prime Minister Jean Castex says, prompting bafflement from players in the sector. 550 words 1530 GMT by Jurgen Hecker Health-virus-France-restaurants-transport,FOCUS LES ESSARTS-LE-ROI,France After a long day on the road, Didier Huaume saw little to cheer as he sipped a beer with fellow truck drivers at a brightly lit cafe, as President Emmanuel Macron announced a phased easing of France's coronavirus lockdown. 550 words 1430 GMT. Video. Health-virus-Israel-Judaism-social,FOCUS JERUSALEM For many the pandemic has been a time of devastating isolation, but it has also pushed some ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews to integrate in the world outside their narrow communities. 700 words moved by Michael Blum. File picture. -- EUROPE -- Britain-budget-politics-aid LONDON Britain defends sweeping cuts planned to its overseas aid budget after an outpouring of protests that it marks a life-threatening retreat on the government's ambitions to play a global role after Brexit. 600 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video Britain-Scotland-health-periods,FOCUS STENHOUSEMUIR, United Kingdom A group of schoolgirls who started a campaign to educate fellow pupils about period poverty want more countries to follow Scotland's example and make sanitary products free, after groundbreaking legislation is passed. 600 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-women-periods France-police-music-investigation,lead PARIS France's interior minister orders the suspension of several police who beat up a music producer in central Paris after images posted on social media sparked new anger over the conduct of the security forces. 550 words 1530 GMT by Stuart Williams -- MIDDLE EAST -- UAE-Israel-aviation-diplomacy,WRAP DUBAI Budget airline flydubai launches direct flights to Tel Aviv, the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities after the UAE and Israel agreed to normalise ties. 500 words 1500 GMT by Sarah Stewart with Jack Guez in Tel Aviv. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Burkina-vote,WRAP OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won a second term after gaining an outright majority in the first round of elections, the country's electoral board announces. 550 words 1530 GMT. Video Zimbabwe-mining-gold-accident,lead BINDURA, Zimbabwe Around 40 informal miners have been trapped underground in northeastern Zimbabwe after a shaft in a disused gold mine collapsed, the country's miners' federation said. 400 words 1600 GMT by Farai Mugano. Graphic -- ASIA -- Iran-prisoner-Australia-Britain,WRAP SYDNEY An Australian-British lecturer jailed for spying by Iran has been released after two "traumatic" years, part of a swap for three Iranian prisoners reportedly linked to a botched Bangkok bomb plot. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video Iran-prisoner-Australia-Britain-Thailand,2ndlead BANGKOK Thailand confirms it has returned three Iranians jailed over a 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok, in an announcement that came after Tehran freed an Australian-British lecturer imprisoned for alleged spying. 550 words moved. File picture SKorea-social-digital-crime-abuse SEOUL The mastermind of a notorious online sex abuse ring is jailed for 40 years in South Korea. 400 words moved India-weather-cyclone,WRAP PUDUCHERRY, India Accurate forecasting and the evacuation of several hundred thousand people helped avert any loss of life after a cyclone clobbered southeast India, authorities say, as rescuers work to restore power and clear fallen trees. 500 words moved by Arun Sankar. Picture. Video afp
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