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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Disaster-hit Beirut braces for protests + China slams US over HK sanctions + Black box found after 18 die in India jet crash + Mauritius oil spill disaster worsens + Baby's back in new 'Dirty Dancing' movie Lebanon-blast,WRAP BEIRUT Thousands of seething Lebanese spill into the street for a major protest against a political leadership they blame for a monster explosion that killed more than 150 people and disfigured the capital Beirut. 850 words 1530 GMT by Layal Abou Rahal. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live Video. Also moving: Lebanon-blast-protest,SCENE HongKong-China-US-diplomacy-politics,WRAP HONG KONG China slams the United States for imposing "barbarous" sanctions in response to its crackdown on Hong Kong's freedoms, capping a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the world's two biggest economies. 700 words moved by Jerome Taylor with Shaun Tandon in Washington. File picture. File video. Graphic. Also moved: HongKong-politics-China-US,PROFILE India-accident-air,WRAP Investigators have recovered the "black box" flight recorders from an Air India Express plane that crashed in southern India killing at least 18 people, the aviation minister says. 700 words moved. Video. Picture. Graphic Also moved: India-aviation-accident,SCENE Mauritius-environmental-pollution,shipping,WRAP PORT LOUIS France dispatches a warship and military aircraft from Reunion to Mauritius where desperate efforts are underway to contain a worsening oil spill polluting the archipelago's iconic reefs and protected ecosytems. 650 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-film-DirtyDancing LOS ANGELES A new "Dirty Dancing" movie is in development, with Jennifer Grey expected to reprise her iconic role as Frances "Baby" Houseman after more than three decades. 200 words moved. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-blast-protest,SCENE BEIRUT Brandishing nooses, thousands of angry Lebanese protesters clamoured for revenge against a leadership they blame for a cataclysmic blast that has wrecked death and destruction in their capital. 500 words 1600 GMT by Tony Gamal Gabriel. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-Israel,FOCUS JERUSALEM For some it's a gesture of goodwill, to others sheer hypocrisy: Israel's offer of humanitarian aid to Lebanon after the massive Beirut blast is unlikely to be taken up. 800 words 0930 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee US-Iran-UN-arms-diplomacy,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council is set next week to roundly reject a US resolution to extend an Iranian arms embargo, diplomats say, setting up a lengthy showdown with repercussions for the Iran nuclear deal. 650 words moved by Peter Hutchison -- AMERICAS -- Venezuela-US-justice-diplomacy,2ndlead CARACAS Two former US soldiers have been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Venezuela on charges including terrorism, after a failed bid to invade the Caribbean country last May, Attorney General Tarek William Saab says. 450 words 1500 GMT US-Taiwan-China-diplomacy,ADVANCER WASHINGTON Eager to find a foil for adversary China, US President Donald Trump's administration is stepping up support for Taiwan, although a high-level visit to the island shows it is still treading carefully on an especially explosive issue. 600 words 1530 GMT by Shaun Tandon US-China-politics-intelligence-vote,2ndlead WASHINGTON China has boosted its efforts to influence the US presidential election in November and wants President Donald Trump to lose because it sees him as "unpredictable," a top US intelligence official says. 400 words moved Health-virus-US-economy-employment-unemployment WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says he is poised to sign executive orders to extend aid to Americans facing hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic, though negotiations continue between his administration and Democratic leaders in Congress on a new emergency spending bill. 750 words moved by Heather Scott and Elodie Cuzin. File picture. Health-virus-Mexico,FOCUS MEXICO CITY As Mexico's coronavirus death toll soars past 50,000 -- the world's third-highest -- locals tell AFP how they have lost loved ones to the pandemic and had brushes with death themselves. 550 words moved Sofia Miselem. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP MONTEVIDEO Latin America and the Caribbean surpasses Europe to become the region hardest-hit with coronavirus deaths, as India passes the milestone of two million infections. 700 words moved by Barnaby Chesterman. Picture. Video Virus-health-Taiwan-travel-offbeat TAOYUAN, Taiwan Faced with the coronavirus collapse in travellers, Taiwanese airlines have begun offering sight-seeing "flights to nowhere" on their passenger jets -- including flight attendant lessons for children. 500 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-SAfrica-leisure,FOCUS HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa Intra-provincial safari tours resume as coronavirus confinements are gradually loosened in South Africa, the continent's worst hit country where more than half-a million people are infected. 600 words 1100 GMT by Sofia Christensen. Picture. Video Health-virus-demo,FACTS BERLIN As the prospect of a second virus wave fuels fears of new lockdowns in Europe and elsewhere, anger is growing in some quarters over crippling restrictions imposed to slow transmission of the disease. 750 words moved by Kit Holden. Picture Health-virus-Mexico,FOCUS MEXICO CITY As Mexico's coronavirus death toll soars past 50,000 -- the world's third-highest -- locals tell AFP how they have lost loved ones to the pandemic and had brushes with death themselves. 550 words moved Sofia Miselem. Picture Health-virus-Serbia-music,FOCUS BELGRADE In a studio embedded deep inside an old Belgrade printing factory turned artists' space, the rock group Dingospo Dali rehearses for a show they are not sure will come to pass. 600 words moved by Jovan Matic. Picture. Video -- ENVIRONMENT -- Italy-glacier-climate COURMAYEUR, Italy The threat that a massive chunk of glacier loosened by soaring temperatures could collapse near an alpine resort on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc mountain range ease slightly, the local mayor says. 470 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-ITA-SerieA-Eur-C1-Juventus-Sarri MILAN Juventus sack coach Maurizio Sarri after just one season after the Italian footballing giants crashed out of the Champions League last 16 to Lyon. 650 words by 1500 GMT by Emmeline Moore. Picture Cricket-ENG-PAK,lead MANCHESTER Mohammad Abbas removes Rory Burns after Yasir Shah added valuable late-order runs for Pakistan on the fourth day of the first Test against England at Old Trafford. 450 words moved by Julian Guyer. Picture afp
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