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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump resurfaces after election loss + Brexit architect Cummings steps down + UN says possible war crimes in Ethiopia + Polisario says W.Sahara ceasefire over + Serial killer the 'Yorkshire Ripper' dies US-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump makes his first public comments since his election defeat with a White House address on US plans for a vaccine against the resurgent Covid-19 virus. 650 words 2030 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video Also moved: US-vote-law-ethics,FOCUS Britain-politics,WRAP LONDON Dominic Cummings, the controversial brains behind the 2016 campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, will step down as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top aide, a government source says. 650 words moved by Joe Jackson Also moved: Britain-politics-Cummings,PROFILE Ethiopia-Tigray-unrest,WRAP ADDIS ABABA The United Nations warn of possible war crimes in Ethiopia's Tigray region, as the US condemns the massacre of civilians in fighting which the prime minister claims has left his enemy "in the final throes of death". 800 words moved. Picture. Video WSahara-conflict-Morocco-Mauritania,WRAP RABAT The pro-independence Polisario Front declares the end of a three-decade-old ceasefire in the disputed Western Sahara after Morocco launched an operation to reopen a road to neighbouring Mauritania. 800 words 1930 GMT by Sophie Pons. File Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: WSahara-conflict-Morocco-UN,FACTS Britain-crime-murder-Ripper,WRAP LONDON "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women in a reign of terror in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s, dies behind bars aged 74. 650 words moved by Callum Paton -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW YORK New York fights to fend off a second wave of coronavirus infections with new restrictions on bars and restaurants coming into force as the pandemic rages across the United States and global daily deaths top 10,000 for the first time. 750 words 1930 GMT by Peter Hutchison with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-G20-economy,2ndlead RIYADH G20 nations declare a "common framework" for an extended debt restructuring plan for coronavirus-ravaged developing countries, but campaigners caution that more was needed to alleviate a "wave of debt crises". 650 words moved by Anuj Chopra Health-virus-Germany-Turkey-BioNTech, PROFILE FRANKFURT Progress on a Covid-19 vaccine has propelled the modest husband-and-wife team behind German firm BioNTech into the global limelight, with attention inevitably focussing on their background as the children of Turkish immigrants. 650 words 1930 GMT by Sophie Makris. File Picture Health-virus-WHO-vaccines,lead GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization hails the rapid progress towards a Covid-19 vaccine but insists every country must reap the benefits. 550 words moved by Agnes Pedrero. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-military-Afghanistan,FOCUS WASHINGTON With little more than two months left in office, President Donald Trump appears to be pushing ahead with plans to pull out of Afghanistan as he stacks the Pentagon with loyalists. 600 words 2000 GMT by Sylvie Lanteaume US-France-Turkey-Mideast-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads on a tour of US allies with an elephant in the room -- they have all congratulated President-elect Joe Biden while America's top diplomat insists he will remain in charge. 600 words 2300 GMT by Francesco Fontemaggi -- EUROPE -- France-attacks,WRAP PARIS France marks five years since the jihadist attacks that caused carnage in central Paris, with the pyschological wounds still raw and the country on edge due to the ongoing security threat. 600 words moved by Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict, WRAP YEREVAN Thousands of furious protesters rally in the Armenian capital for a fourth day running on Friday demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign over a controversial peace agreement with Azerbaijan. 400 words moved Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh, SCENE Belarus-opposition-politics-demonstration,WRAP MINSK Thousands of demonstrators turn out in the Belarusian capital Minsk to mourn the death of a protester who was pronounced dead the day after police arrested him. 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-conflict-unrest-rights-UN,WRAP GENEVA The UN calls for urgent measures to protect civilians in Mozambique's northeastern Cabo Delgado province, where jihadists are wreaking havoc, warning that the population is "desperate". 500 words moved by Nina Larson -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-refugee,SCENE GEDAREF DISTRICT, Sudan Barefoot and nearing collapse, 10-year-old Tediest Gezriel is among the thousands of Ethiopians fleeing into Sudan from intense fighting reporting artillery bombardments and air strikes in their homeland of Tigray. 650 words 1930 GMT by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris EU-migrants-Libya,WRAP KHOMS, Libya Twenty migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says, raising to almost 100 the death toll from two such Mediterranean tragedies the same day. 550 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- India-Pakistan-Kashmir-conflict,WRAP SRINAGAR, India Indian and Pakistani forces wage their biggest artillery battle of the past year, leaving a total of more than 13 dead and dozens wounded on both sides of their disputed Kashmir frontier, officials say. 500 words 1930 GMT by Parvaiz Bukhari. Picture Myanmar-vote,WRAP YANGON Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party swept to a landslide win in Myanmar's election, official results show, in a poll disputed by the military-aligned opposition and criticised by rights groups. 600 words moved by Su Myat Mon and Richard Sargent. File video. China-US-politics,WRAP BEIJING China congratulates US President-elect Joe Biden nearly a week after he was declared winner of the American election, saying it respects "the choice of the American people". 500 words moved -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-SCO-Scotland-health-virus,REAX GLASGOW Scotland fans sang on the streets, played bagpipes and flouted strict Covid-19 pandemic restrictions by gathering to climb a statue in Glasgow after the national football team qualified for a first major tournament since 1998. 550 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture Also moved: Fbl-Euro-2020-NMacedonia-MKD-politics -- BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY -- US-China-IT-politics-TikTok,WRAP WASHINGTON US authorities have given the Chinese owner of TikTok two additional weeks to divest the social media sensation in order to resolve national security concerns voiced by President Donald Trump's administration, according to a court filing. 450 words 2000 GMT by Rob Lever afp
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