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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + UK's Johnson leaves hospital as world marks Easter + Pope livestreams Easter prayer for COVID-19 victims + Top oil nations agree on output cut to boost price + Wikileaks' Julian Assange fathered kids in embassy + Formula One racing legend Stirling Moss dead at 90 Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Virus-stricken British Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked medics for saving his life on leaving hospital, as hundreds of millions around the world mark Easter under lockdown to guard against the coronavirus pandemic. 1,000 2130 GMT by Joe Jackson with Dmitry Zaks in Rome and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Easter VATICAN CITY Pope Francis prays for coronavirus victims in an unprecedented livestream Easter Sunday message delivered from a hauntingly empty Vatican to a world under lockdown. 950 words 2030 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Health-virus-OPEC-oil,WRAP VIENNA Top oil-producing countries agree to cut output aimed at boosting plummeting oil prices due to the coronavirus crisis and a Saudi-Russia price war. 450 words 2000 GMT Britain-US-espionage-Assange,lead LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London for much of the past decade, according to a report confirmed by the mother. 600 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,WRAP LONDON 'It was one lap too many': Motor racing great Stirling Moss, widely regarded as the best driver never to win a world championship, dies at 90 following a long illness. 650 words 1930 GMT File picture. Graphic Moved: Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,OBIT Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,REAX -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US,lead WASHINGTON The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert says, as signs grow that the coronavirus pandemic is peaking. 650 words 1930 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Picture Health-virus-US-religion,SCENE BALTIMORE, Maryland With authorities banning large gatherings to stem the coronavirus, churches are livestreaming services. But defiant Baptist pastor Alvin Gwynn says in-person gatherings are "the Christian way" -- posing a delicate problem for law enforcement. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-lifestyle-nightlife,FOCUS NEW YORK With New York's nightlife spots closed, digital dance parties are all the rave, as DJs stream sets while revelers don their nipple pasties and disco-ball facemasks for clubs online. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video. File picture Health-US-virus-doctor,FOCUS LOS ANGELES A US doctor's dance videos posted on social media have proven just the right medicine for hundreds of thousands of people, including health care workers, who are cheering him on for lifting their spirits during the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Jocelyne Zablit. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON Boris Johnson leaves hospital to convalesce from COVID-19 at Chequers, the country estate of British prime ministers, officials say, as Britain braces for its virus death toll to pass 10,000. 700 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture. File video History-Holocaust-Jews-Netherlands-AnneFrank,FOCUS AMSTERDAM A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger. Seventy-five years after her death in Belsen-Belsen concentration camp, Anne Frank's diary remains more relevant than ever. 800 words moved by Danny Kemp. Video -- MIDEAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's president rejects parliament speaker Benny Gantz's request for more time to form a government, a task that could now fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 600 words moved by Ben Simon Iran-US-banking-sanction-Luxembourg TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the country has won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-Taliban-prisoners,WRAP KABUL The Taliban says it will release the first prisoners in a delayed exchange deal with the Afghan government, a potential breakthrough after the insurgents walked out of talks with Kabul last week. 550 words moved by Usman Sharifi Health-virus-China-employment-economy BEIJING Although China is claiming success in the battle against the coronavirus, millions have lost their jobs in the economic fallout, throwing in jeopardy an ambitious target to eradicate poverty this year. 800 words moved by Beiyo Seow -- SPORTS -- Health-advertising-Fbl-marketing-ENG-FRA-ESP,FOCUS PARIS With stadiums dark, match shirts folded in closets and most players confined at home, football's sponsors have lost all visibility and are growing restless. 750 words by moved by Yassine Khiri. File pictures Taiwan-sport-baseball-virus-health TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan swings into a new baseball season -- with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands -- as the island bucks the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus. 400 words moved. Picture. Video Fbl-virus-IND SRINAGAR, India Stranded by the coronavirus lockdown in one of the world's most militarised regions, Zambia's Aaron Katebe is one of 10 foreign footballers reduced to playing video games or training in a hotel gym in Indian-administered Kashmir. 550 words moved by Tauseef Mustafa in Srinagar and Faisal Kamal in New Delhi. Picture afp
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