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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar army accuses Suu Kyi of taking $600,000 + Vaccine hopes high as world marks pandemic anniversary + Prince William: my family is not racist + Japan marks 10 years since devastating tsunami + Hollywood memorabilia up for grabs at big-name auction Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Nine protesters are shot dead in Myanmar as the junta reacts to international condemnation of its crackdown by claiming ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted hefty illegal payments. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military-US-lobbying Myanmar-politics-military-SriLanka-diplomacy Myanmar-politics-military-rights-Amnesty Health-virus,WRAP THE HAGUE The world marks one year since the coronavirus threat was declared a pandemic, with vaccinations offering hope but much of humanity still enduring highly restricted lives and no clear path back to normality. 800 words 1800 GMT by Danny Kemp and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Britain-US-royals-racism,WRAP LONDON Prince William defends the British royal family after his younger brother Harry and wife Meghan accused them of racism in a bombshell interview watched around the world. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi and Phil Hazlewood. Picture. Video. Graphic Japan-tsunami-earthquake-nuclear-anniversary,WRAP HISANOHAMA, Japan Japan falls silent to mark 10 years since its worst natural disaster in living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and resulting nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation. 650 words moved by Harumi Ozawa with Sara Hussein in Tokyo. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Also moved: Japan-tsunami-anniversary-earthquake-nuclear-disaster,FOCUS Entertainment-US-film-auction LOS ANGELES A prototype of the terrifying monster from "Alien," a mobster's three-piece suit worn by Al Pacino in "Scarface" and Harry Potter's wand are among 800 items from classic Hollywood movies up for auction next month in Los Angeles. 350 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Dominican-Haiti-migration,FOCUS DAJABON, Dominican Republic Barefoot and with their pant legs rolled up, Haitians wade through a river into the neighboring Dominican Republic. They do this every morning on their way to work, and return by the same arduous route at day's end to avoid paying bribes to border guards. 700 words 1800 GMT by Erika Santelices. Picture. Video Benin-art,PHOTOESSAY GANVIE, Benin On a small island surrounded by hundreds of wooden huts on stilts, in the middle of Lake Nokoue in southeast Benin, a giant painting is taking shape. 300 words moved by Josue Mehouenou. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-crime-women-safety,FOCUS LONDON The case of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old woman who disappeared while walking home in London, has prompted women in Britain to voice anger at facing habitual intimidation and harassment. 700 words moved by Anna Malpas and Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video We have also moved: Britain-police-murder-arrest Poland-Hungary-EU-budget,WRAP WARSAW Poland and Hungary file complaints with the EU's top court over linking EU budget payments to rule of law conditions, meaning the new mechanism will be delayed. 400 words 1530 GMT by Dario Thuburn Georgia-lifestyle-travel-labour,FOCUS TBILISI American travel addict Candy Treft radiates enthusiasm while she extols the virtues of her new home country Georgia as one of the world's best locations for digital nomads. 600 words moved by Irakli Metreveli. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-missing,FOCUS YEREVAN Ruzanna Vartanyan has spent the past five months trapped somewhere between hope and despair as she prays to see her oldest son Sarkis again. 750 words moved Max Delany. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Libya-conflict-politics,FOCUS TRIPOLI In divided Libya, the breakthrough appointment of a unity government has raised hopes for peace among people exhausted by a decade of chaos but now daring to dream of a better future. 550 words 1600 GMT by Hamza Mekouar. Picture. Video Egypt-fire-factory,WRAP CAIRO At least 20 people are killed and 24 more wounded as a fire breaks out in clothing factory on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, medical and security sources say. 400 words 1600 GMT. Picture. Video Palestinians-vote-Israel-conflict-UAE,FOCUS KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories As Palestinians ready for their first elections in 15 years, two powerful players loom large from afar. One is a royal adviser in the UAE, the other lives in an Israeli prison cell. 800 words moved Guillaume Lavallee. Picture -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflict-politics-diplomacy,lead ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia's Amhara region denies its forces engaged in "ethnic cleansing" in conflict-hit Tigray, a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used the phrase in public testimony. 630 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet Mauritania-politics-corruption,WRAP NOUAKCHOTT A Mauritania state prosecutor requests corruption charges against former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, and about ten other senior figures, as part of an investigation demanded by parliament. 450 words by 1530 GMT -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-economy-health-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden gives a first primetime television address to urge "hope" after Congress passes his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan on the first anniversary of the start of the pandemic. 700 words 1500 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-police-press-demonstration-trial,FOCUS WASHINGTON Does the freedom to inform stop during a police operation? The US trial of a journalist arrested during an anti-racism protest has reopened the debate on freedom of the press and media-police relations. 650 words moved by Cyril Julien. Picture US-racism-police-trial-jury,FOCUS MINNEAPOLIS Millions of people have watched the video of George Floyd's death -- a dozen will decide the fate of the white policeman seen kneeling for nearly nine minutes on his neck. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive and Chris Lefkow in Washington Mexico-politics-drugs,WRAP MEXICO CITY Mexico's lower house of Congress votes in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana use, in a step towards transforming the land of the drug cartels into a huge regulated market. 500 words moved by Natalia Cano. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-virus-health-crime-offbeat HONG KONG Knife-wielding men who stole hundreds of toilet rolls during panic-buying shortages in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in Hong Kong are jailed for more than three years. 250 words moved. File Video China-HongKong-vote-government-parliament,WRAP BEIJING China's rubber-stamp parliament votes for sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral system -- including powers to veto candidates -- as Beijing moves to ensure only "patriots" run the city following huge pro-democracy rallies. 800 words moved by Beiyi Seow and Leo Ramirez. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic -- ECONOMY -- ECB-EU-eurozone-rates-banking,WRAP FRANKFURT The European Central Bank says it will significantly ramp up the pace of its pandemic emergency bond buys, in a bid to soothe market jitters about a rise in government borrowing costs. 650 words 1430 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick. File picture -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-2022-IOC-Bach-health-virus,WRAP LAUSANNE Competitors at this year's Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games will be offered coronavirus vaccines bought from China, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announces in a significant move for the holding of the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games. 600 words 1500 GMT by Coralie Febvre. Picture Fbl-Eur-C1-ESP-Barcelona,FOCUS MADRID The Champions League quarter-finals will be without them for the first time in 14 years yet Barcelona's exit in the last 16 at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday was greeted with optimism at home. 600 words moved by Thomas Allnutt. Picture RugbyU-RugbyL-Box-Williams,lead WELLINGTON Dual-code superstar Sonny Bill Williams announces his retirement from rugby but the New Zealander isn't giving up on sport, saying he wants to concentrate on his boxing career. 500 words moved. File picture Also moved: RugbyU-RugbyL-Box-Williams,POINTS -- SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-regulation-economics-CO2-US,FOCUS PARIS The United States is updating a figure that experts say could help transform American climate action and reverberate around the world -- the price it puts on future damages to society caused by carbon pollution today. 1,200 words 1430 GMT by Kelly Macnamara and Marlowe Hood -- LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-Spain-television-chess,FOCUS LA GARRIGA, Spain At David Ferrer's factory, workers are busy cutting, trimming and stitching together fine sheets of wood to make chessboards to meet a surge in orders in the wake of the runaway success of the Netflix series, "The Queen's Gambit". 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque. Picture. Video HongKong-China-virus-health-music-offbeat HONG KONG In a densely populated city with notoriously high rents, Hong Kong's musicians are used to playing cramped stages. But few venues are quite as pokey -- or unorthodox -- as Yuen Hing Lung noodles. 300 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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