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| - Duty Editor: James Edgar Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus spread in US not inevitable: Trump + Gunman kills 5 in US brewery + Modi appeals for calm over deadly Delhi riots + Egypt's Sisi pays respects to Mubarak at funeral + Tennis legend Sharapova calls time at 32 Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump insists the spread of the novel coronavirus through the United States is not inevitable, despite growing global alarm that has seen Saudi Arabia ban pilgrims and a rocketing infection rate around the world. 800 words 0200 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-panic,FOCUS Also moving: Health-virus-Europe,FACTS Health-virus,CHRONO US-crime-shooting,WRAP WASHINGTON A gunman kills five people at a major brewing company office complex and then apparently turns the gun on himself in the latest spasm of America's gun violence epidemic. 600 words 0200 GMT by Tori Otten India-unrest-religion,WRAP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for calm after Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 27 people dead and prompted demands for a military curfew. 700 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga and Aishwarya Kumar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: India-politics-unrest-religion India-unrest-religion,SCENE Egypt-politics-Mubarak,WRAP CAIRO Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pays his respects at the military funeral of former leader Hosni Mubarak, whose three decades of strong-arm rule ended in the Arab Spring protests of 2011. 600 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video Tennis-RUS-Sharapova PARIS Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable and highest-paid sportswomen, announces her retirement at the age of 32, and is hailed as a "legend" and "great champion". 650 words moved by Luke Phillips. File picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Tennis-RUS-Sharapova,PROFILE Tennis-WTA-Sharapova,REAC Tennis-RUS-Sharapova-factfile,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS-- Health-virus-China-US,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says it is not inevitable that the novel coronavirus would continue to spread in the United States, even as the administration considers fresh travel restrictions on hard-hit countries like Italy and South Korea. 800 words 0200 GMT by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-SKorea-religion-social,BACKGROUND SEOUL The secretive South Korean religious group at the centre of the country's coronavirus outbreak is a sprawling network so wealthy it can mobilise thousands of believers to hold Pyongyang-style mass performances at Seoul's Olympic stadium. 450 words 0300 GMT words Pakistan-health-virus,WRAP KARACHI Pakistan detects its first two cases of novel coronavirus, a public health advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan says, days after Islamabad closed its border with Iran, where 19 people have died. 450 words moved. File video -- AMERICAS -- US-IT-vote-lifestyle,FOCUS WASHINGTON Days ahead of the Iowa Caucuses vote, Rhiannon Payne was on the Bumble dating app -- not to find a partner but to press her case for her candidate, Elizabeth Warren. 850 words 0130 GMT by Rob Lever US-entertainment-abuse-trial-Weinstein-assault,ANALYSIS NEW YORK Prosecutors have long been hesitant to take on cases of acquaintance rape but the conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on charges of rape and sexual assault should move the needle on such cases, and open the door to more prosecutions, legal experts say. 900 words 0200 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. File Picture US-Afghanistan-conflict-military,FOCUS WASHINGTON The United States is optimistic about reaching a peace accord with the Taliban, but it still faces security challenges and the risk of militant threats based in Afghanistan, analysts say. 650 words by Sylvie Lanteaume US-politics-vote,WRAP CHARLESTON, United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, fresh off a feisty debate showing, receives a key endorsement, boosting his hopes of winning the South Carolina primary and blunting the momentum of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. 600 words moved by Leila Macor with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Sanders,FOCUS US-politics-vote-Democratic-candidates,POINTS -- EUROPE -- Slovakia-vote-politics,ADVANCER BRATISLAVA Slovakia's populist coalition is fighting for survival in a weekend general election overshadowed by the 2018 gangland-style murder of a journalist that has upended politics in the eurozone country hounded by graft. 750 words 0300 GMT by Laszlo Juhasz and Martina Konik. Pictures by Vladimir Simicek, Video by Martina Konik Also moving: Slovakia-vote-politics-leaders,PROFILE Slovakia-vote-culture,FACTS Russia-animal-climate-science-Arctic MOSCOW Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist says. 450 words moved. File picture Spain-US-opera-assualt-Domingo-people,WRAP MADRID Spain's culture ministry cancels opera star Placido Domingo's participation in an upcoming Madrid show, a day after he accepted "full responsibility" in a sexual harassment scandal. 600 words moved by Laurence Boutreux. File picture. File video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-JordanValley,FOCUS UM ZUKA, Palestinian Territories When the Israeli army's surveillance drone swooped down, briefly scattering a Palestinian shepherd's flock, activist Guy Hirschfeld rightly predicted trouble. 800 words 0300 GMT by Joe Dyke. Picture. Video. Syria-conflict-Idlib-Kafranbel,FOCUS IDLIB, Syria The Syrian town of Kafranbel was long a symbol of humourous defiance to Damascus, famed for its witty posters, murals and cartoons, so its recapture by regime forces spells a heavy blow, activists say. 700 words 0300 GMT by Omar Haj Kadour. Picture. File Video. Health-virus-Iraq-religion-economy,FOCUS NAJAF, Iraq Iraq's vital religious tourism sector was already suffering after months of protests, political turmoil and sanctions hitting pilgrims from neighbouring Iran -- then the novel coronavirus arrived. 750 words 0300 GMT by Haidar Hamdani with Salman Ameen in Karbala. Picture. Video. -- ASIA -- Myanmar-minorities-tradition-tattooing,FOCUS LONGWA, Myanmar Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their victory. 650 words 0300 GMT by Richard Sargent. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Angola-economy-corruption,FOCUS LUANDA Entrepreneur Antonio Almeida has learned to navigate around the potholes of doing business in Angola. 900 words 0300 GMT. Picture. Video Seychelles-tourism-environment,FOCUS AU CAP, Seychelles It is the world's largest seed, and with a shape suggestive of a woman's hips and myths of love-making powers, the coco de mer is an icon of the Seychelles. 700 words 0300 GMT. picture. Video afp
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