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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + WHO says pandemic 'accelerating' as UK locks down + US cuts $1 bn in Afghan aid over leaders' impasse + US Olympic committee joins calls to put off Games + Virus dead abandoned in Spanish retirement homes + Woody Allen memoir released in US despite protest Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Britain orders a three-week lockdown in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus as world health officials warn that the pandemic is "accelerating" around the globe. 800 words 0330 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-US-Pompeo,WRAP DOHA, Qatar US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slashes aid to Afghanistan's government after a mission to Kabul failed to bridge a divide between feuding leaders as he moves forward with the Taliban on a deal to pull troops. 750 words moved. Picture Health-virus-Oly-2020,WRAP TOKYO The United States Olympic committee joins growing calls to postpone the Tokyo Olympics becaise of the coronavorus pandemic, and a senior IOC official says a delay is inevitable. 600 words 0230 GMT. Picture Health-virus-Spain MADRID Spanish soldiers helping to fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead from the disease at retirement homes, while an ice rink in Madrid has been turned into a temporary morgue to deal with a surge in deaths. 400 words 0200 GMT. Picture US-entertainment-film-books-Allen LOS ANGELES The autobiography of filmmaker Woody Allen was released in the United States Monday, swiftly finding a new home after its original publisher pulled out amid protests over abuse allegations. 450 words moved -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India-IND-bodybuilding,FOCUS NEW DELHI While top gym chains in India are shuttered over the coronavirus pandemic, some workout dens are catering for their muscle-bound customers in defiance of a government lockdown. 500 words 0400 GMT by Faisal Kamal Health-virus-Oly-2020-Japan-torch,INTERVIEW TOKYO Kazuo Goto still vividly remembers his pride as he carried the Olympic flame on the last day of the torch relay in 1964. But with coronavirus threatening the Games, he wants the 2020 relay to be scrapped. 650 words 0130 by Shingo Ito. Picture. Video. -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US NEW YORK Anxiety ratchets across an eerily deserted New York, America's coronavirus epicenter, but President Donald Trump says he'd soon call for lifting the lockdown in some parts of the country. 650 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-economy-Senate,lead WASHINGTON Democrats again block a nearly $2 trillion rescue package for the teetering US economy, highlighting a bitter partisan battle over how to best protect struggling Americans and crippled businesses from the ravages of coronavirus. 550 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture Moved: Health-virus-US-politics-Trump,FOCUS Health-virus-US-testing-Florida MIAMI Michael Barker started feeling sick about two weeks ago while on vacation with friends in the mountains of Colorado. The 69-year-old retired firefighter thought at first that he was just suffering from dehydration. 500 words 0130 GMT. Picture Health-virus-US,PROFILE WASHINGTON Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease expert, has led the country's response to every major epidemic since the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s, long striving to ensure the science conveyed to the public is clear and accurate. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME Italy reports a second successive drop in daily deaths and infections from a coronavirus that has claimed more than 6,000 lives in a month. 600 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Health-virus-Turkey,FOCUS ISTANBUL In Turkey, sprinkling hands with cologne has long been a ritual for a visit to the barber, a meal at a restaurant or even a trip on the bus. Now Turkish cologne -- found in almost every household, either in the fridge or a closet -- is seeing unprecedented demand as a weapon in the fight against the novel coronavirus. 500 words 0330 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Arab-education,FOCUS TRIPOLI Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of novel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. 750 words 0300 GMT. Picture. Video Health-virus-Yemen-conflict,FOCUS AL HAJJAH, Yemen Hand-washing to combat the spread of coronavirus is the order of the day, but it's an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. 600 words 0400 GMT by Mohammed Al-Wafi with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Picture. Video Also moving: Yemen-conflict-Saudi,CHRONO Health-virus-Syria-Idlib BEIRUT Testing for the novel coronavirus is to start within days in northwest Syria, the World Health Organisation says, amid fears of a disaster if the pandemic reaches overcrowded displacement camps. 500 words moved -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa,3rdlead JOHANNESBURG Numerous sub-Saharan countries act to stem the spread of coronavirus, with South Africa announcing a soldier-patrolled lockdown and Senegal and Ivory Coast each declaring a state of emergency. 700 words moved by Susan Njanji. Picture afp
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