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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Stampede kills dozens at Iran general's funeral + Heatwave looms as Australia battles bushfires + Trial opens for one of Japan's worst massacres + Japan issues warrant for fugitive Ghosn's wife + Stokes inspires England to series-leveling win Iran-Iraq-US-unrest,WRAP KERMAN, Iran Over 50 people are crushed to death in a stampede during a massive funeral procession for a top Iranian general assassinated in a US drone strike. 850 words 1930 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-fire-environment-climate,WRAP SYDNEY Firefighters race to contain massive bushfires in southeastern Australia, taking advantage of a brief drop in temperatures and some much-needed rainfall before another heatwave strikes later this week. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Australia-fire-environment-climate,FACTS Japan-crime-court-Sagamihara-disabled TOKYO The man accused of the 2016 murder of 19 disabled people at a Japanese care home goes on trial in a case that ranks among the country's worst mass killings. 650 words 2000 GMT by Natsuko Fukue. File picture. File video Japan-Lebanon-court-Ghosn-Nissan-Renault,WRAP TOKYO Prosecutors in Japan obtain an arrest warrant for Carole Ghosn, wife of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, who last month jumped bail and fled the country. 700 words moved by Natsuko Fukue. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Japan-France-Lebanon-Nissan-Renault-Ghosn-Carole,PROFILE Japan-Nissan-Ghosn-automobile-investigations-lawyer-Hironaka,FOCUS Cricket-RSA-ENG,WRAP CAPE TOWN England captain Joe Root describes Ben Stokes as a "golden nugget" after the all-rounder produces a match-clinching spell of bowling to secure a 189-run win inside the last hour of the fifth day of the second Test against South Africa. 600 words moved by Colin Bryden. Picture -- IRAN CRISIS -- Iran-Iraq-US-unrest,SCENE KERMAN, Iran "We'll give our lives for General Soleimani and we'll avenge him," says the survivor of a stampede that crushed to death dozens of mourners in the Iranian city of Kerman. 500 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video Iran-Iraq-US-unrest-Soleimani,FOCUS TEHRAN The millions who turned out across Iran to mourn Major General Qasem Soleimani have testified to the apparent across-the-board popularity of a figure hailed as a "living martyr" for the Islamic republic. 650 words moved by Marc Jourdier. Picture. Video Iraq-Iran-US-unrest-troops,Q&A BAGHDAD Iraq's premier Adel Abdel Mahdi says he received signed copies of a letter the US had said was unsigned and still in draft, describing steps America's military would take to leave Iraq. What shape could a withdrawal take? 700 words moved by Maya Gebeily Iraq-unrest-US-Iran-Kurds,FOCUS BAGHDAD Things are moving fast in federal Iraq, as pro-Iran factions flex their muscles and authorities seek to oust foreign troops. Amid the chaos, Iraq's Kurds are watching apprehensively before placing their bets. 650 words moved by Sarah Benhaida Also moved: Iraq-US-diplomacy-Iran-unrest,FOCUS Saudi-unrest-US-Iran-Iraq-diplomacy,FOCUS RIYADH The US has put its ally Saudi Arabia in Iran's crosshairs with the assassination of a top general, leaving it bracing for retaliation just as it was working to ease tensions after a torrid 2019. 700 words moved by Anuj Chopra Iraq-Libya-Iran-US-unrest-EU-diplomacy,WRAP BRUSSELS The foreign ministers of four leading European powers meet for emergency talks on Iran and Libya, as the EU scrambles to respond to two escalating crises on its doorstep. 650 words moved by Damon Wake. Picture. Video Mali-US-Iran BAMAKO A former Malian government official claims responsibility for embarrassing tweets from the president's account which labelled the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani a "fuck-up". 250 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Venezuela-politics-parliament,WRAP CARACAS Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido is sworn in for another term as speaker of parliament after a tense stand-off with the armed forces who initially prevented him from entering Congress. 700 words 2030 GMT by Andrea Tosta. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- Syria-conflict-Russia,WRAP DAMASCUS Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on his first visit to Damascus since the start of the conflict nearly nine years ago. 600 words 1530 GMT by Rim Haddad. Picture -- EUROPE -- Cyprus-Britain-Israel-trial,WRAP PARALAMINI, Cyprus A Cypriot court hands a British teenager a four-month suspended prison sentence after convicting her of falsely accusing a dozen Israeli tourists of gang rape, in a case that sparked protests in the UK. 650 words moved by Duncan Woodside. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain moves a step closer to a historic departure from the European Union, after more than three years of bitter division and political drama, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson brings his Brexit deal back to parliament without the threat of defeat, deadlock or delay. 650 words moved GMT by Alice Ritchie and Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Austria-politics,WRAP VIENNA The leader of Austria's conservatives Sebastian Kurz is sworn in as the world's youngest democratically elected leader, at the head of an unlikely coalition with the Greens following the collapse of his previous alliance with the far-right. 700 words moved by Julia Zappei. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphics Also moved: Austria-politics,FACTS Austria-politics-Kurz,PROFILE Spain-politics,WRAP MADRID Spain's parliament narrowly confirms Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez as prime minister for another term, paving the way for the country's first-ever coalition government since its return to democracy in the 1970s. 700 words moved by Daniel Silva. Picture. Video Will have also moved: Spain-politics-Sanchez,PROFILE France-politics-strike-pensions-unions,WRAP PARIS Talks between the French government and unions aimed at ending a 34-day transport strike fail to break the deadlock over a planned pensions overhaul, one of the most hotly contested reforms launched by President Emmanuel Macron. 650 words moved by Bertille Ossey-Woisard and Clare Byrne. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SCIENCE -- US-astronomy-NASA WASHINGTON NASA's planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. 750 words moved by Ivan Couronne and Issam Ahmed. Picture -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- US-trade-economy-indicator,WRAP WASHINGTON America's trade deficit tumbles to a three-year low, putting the United States on track for its first annual drop in six years amid a sluggish world economy and the US-China trade war. 550 words 2130 GMT by Douglas Gillison afp
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