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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Jail terms over 2015 Paris attacks + UK says no to Christmas virus curbs + EU, UK narrow post-Brexit trade gaps + US states sue Google over ad monopoly + China craft returns Moon rocks to Earth France-attacks-trial,WRAP PARIS A Paris court hands jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping Islamist gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015. 750 words 2000 GMT by Valentin Bontemps and Anne-Sophie Lasserre. Picture. Video. Sketch. Picture Health-virus-Britain LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resists calls to tighten coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, as London faces stricter measures and concern mounts about rising case numbers. 650 words moved by James Pheby and Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus,WRAP Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS British and EU negotiators close in on a deal to oversee fair competition in a post-Brexit trade deal, but remain deeply divided over fishing. 700 words 2000 GMT by Dave Clark. Picture. Video US-IT-Google-lawsuit,WRAP NEW YORK Several US states led by Texas file suit against Google over alleged anti-competitive practices, branding it an "internet Goliath" that had eliminated competition in online advertising and was harming consumers. 450 words 2030 GMT by John Biers China-space,WRAP BEIJING An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returns safely to Earth in the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples, the Xinhua news agency reports. 500 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccine-Kariko,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON Hungarian-American scientist Katalin Kariko's obsession with mRNA as a disease-fighting tool cost her a faculty position at a prestigious university, which dismissed it as a dead end. Now, her pioneering work -- which paved the way for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines -- could save the world from a 100 year pandemic. 750 words 2100 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video Health-virus-Germany-toll,3rdlead FRANKFURT Germany registers a record number of deaths from Covid-19 on the first day of a new partial lockdown that will keep schools and non-essential shops stay closed until at least January 10. 600 words moved by Ed Frankl. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Germany-toys-leisure,FOCUS Health-virus-vaccine-CureVac-Germany,INTERVIEW -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-bank-rate-politics-stimulus,WRAP WASHINGTON Congressional leaders say they are nearing a long-awaited agreement on a stimulus package for the US economy, while the Federal Reserve sounds a more optimistic note on economic growth prospects over the next two years 650 words 2100 GMT by Heather Scott Colombia-indigenous-gay-rights,FOCUS LETICIA, Colombia Growing up in an indigenous village in the Colombian Amazon, Junior Sangama long hid his sexuality -- before clashing with his family and choosing to leave. But the 27-year-old has since returned home, one of a number of gay residents who have found a place, of sorts, in the deeply conservative community of Nazareth. 700 words moved by Hector Velasco. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-nuclear-politics-EU,WRAP VIENNA The remaining parties to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear accord meet after Tehran announces plans for a new breach of the deal, and as uncertainty reigns ahead of US President-elect Joe Biden's January inauguration. 700 words moved by Jastinder Khera and Anne Beade Also moved: Iran-US-diplomacy,lead Lifestyle-NAfrica-UNESCO-couscous,lead RABAT Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, joins the UN list of the world's intangible cultural heritage. 600 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-food-children-poverty-politics LONDON The British government faces criticism after it emerges that a UN agency is helping to feed hungry children as part of its first UK emergency response in its 70-year history. 350 words moved France-Russia-internet-Africa-military,FOCUS PARIS Facebook has exposed a curious battle for influence in Africa, with former colonial power France and former superpower Russia using fake accounts to engage, criticise and even befriend each other online. 600 words moved by Daphne Benoit and Didier Lauras -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-kidnapping-unrest-children-school,WRAP KANKARA, Nigeria Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in northwest Nigeria to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf, security and local sources say. 750 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-children,SCENE -- ASIA -- Fiji-Tonga-weather,lead SUVA Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone are told to hunker down at home or head to emergency shelters immediately as authorities warn of the storm's potential cause mass destruction. 500 words moved. Picture. Graphic Japan-crime-arson-animation,WRAP TOKYO Japanese prosecutors charge a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people, the country's deadliest violent crime in decades. 600 words moved by Kyoko Hasegawa and Natsuko Fukue. File picture. File video Pakistan-rights-women ISLAMABAD Pakistan approves the chemical castration of rapists as part of sweeping new legislation sparked by outcry over the gang rape of a mother on a motorway. 350 words moved -- ROHINGYA SPECIAL REPORT -- Rohingya-migration-trafficking-brides,SPECIALREPORT KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Many Rohingya women face a bleak choice: stay in a squalid refugee camp, hopeless and starving, or leave, risking death, rape and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. 1,300 words moved by Sam Jahan, with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Sam Reeves in Kuala Lumpur. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-family,FOCUS LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea while trying to sail to him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. 550 words moved by Haeril Halim. Picture. Video. Graphic -- BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY -- US-economy-forex-trade-Switzerland,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Treasury accuses Switzerland and Vietnam of manipulating their currencies, partly to gain a trade advantage over American exports. 600 words moved by Heather Scott US-privacy-Facebook-Apple,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Social networking giant Facebook opens fire on Apple, saying the iPhone maker's new measures on data collection and targeted ads will hurt small businesses. 600 words 2000 GMT by Glenn Chapman Britain-market-currency-bitcoin,FACTS PARIS Virtual currency bitcoin -- which has broken the $20,000 barrier in trading for the first time, morphed from an academic paper to one of the world's most closely-watched crypto currencies. 630 words Also moved: Britain-market-currency-bitcoin,lead -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-Ringo,INTERVIEW NEW YORK He kept the beat for one of the world's most iconic bands, has fronted his supergroup for three decades, is a two-time rock hall-of-famer -- and at 80, Ringo Starr is as energetic as ever. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. 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