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| - Duty Editor: Susan Stumme Contact: Susan.Stumme@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Florida posts new daily virus case record + Fifty years on, Gay Pride moves online due to virus + Martin elected Ireland's new PM after coalition deal + France arrests six over stolen Banksy Health-virus,WRAP MIAMI Florida hits a new daily coronavirus case record of nearly 10,000 in 24 hours -- a dramatic setback being experienced by other US states as economic reopening clashes with public health needs. 650 words 2130 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture. Video. Graphic World-Gay-Pride PARIS Fifty years on from the first Gay Pride march, the LGBT community takes many of its events online, responding to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words 2030 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Ireland-politics,WRAP DUBLIN Micheal Martin is elected Ireland's new prime minister after his centre-right Fianna Fail party seals a historic coalition deal with long-time rivals Fine Gael as well as the Green Party. 600 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Ireland-politics-Martin,PROFILE France-painting-theft-Banksy,2ndlead PARIS Six people have been arrested in France over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks that was stolen from the Bataclan concert hall. 450 words moved by Sylvie Maligorne. File picture. -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-Florida,FOCUS MIAMI They are itching for a good time after months of lockdown, coronavirus be damned: young adults in Florida are fueling a dangerous rise in COVID-19 infections. 800 words moved by Leila Macor. Picture Brazil-politics-media,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO As even Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro himself admits, communications has not exactly been his administration's strong suit lately. That has exacerbated the trio of crises he is facing: public health, economic and political. Enter his newly created communications ministry. 700 words moved by Louis Genot. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Iraq-economy-migrants,FOCUS BAGHDAD For years, Rajib Sheikh wired money to his native Bangladesh from his day job in Iraq. But now, stuck without wages, he's asking his family back home for help. 700 words moved by Haider Husseini. Picture. Video Health-virus-Lebanon-film,INTERVIEW NICOSIA Prize-winning Lebanese documentary filmmaker Carol Mansour fears the world has learnt nothing from the novel coronavirus shock and will go back to square one or worse when normal life returns. 550 words moved by Mahmoud Mroueh. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-Idlib-Damascus-Russia,PHOTOESSAY ARIHA, Syria Years of violence in Syria's last major opposition bastion have created a landscape of ruin, eerily lit by the Milky Way in the night sky. 300 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Spain-tourism,FOCUS LLORET DE MAR, Spain Surveillance is the watchword at the seaside this summer, with Spanish beaches using drones, cameras and coloured tape to ensure safety for tourists holidaying in the shadow of the virus. 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque. Picture Iceland-vote,WRAP REYKJAVIK Iceland votes in a presidential election, the second European country to hold polls since coronavirus lockdowns were lifted, with incumbent Gudni Johannesson widely expected to win a second four-year mandate 600 words moved by Jeremie Richard. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-Egypt-Sudan-diplomacy-water,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia says it is on track to begin filling a controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile River within weeks but vows to try resolving its dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. 550 words 2100 GMT by Robbie Corey-Boulet. File picture DRCongo-politics-judiciary,WRAP KINSHASA DR Congo's justice minister is arrested at his Kinshasa home in the latest twist in a crisis over proposed judicial reforms that have divided the coalition government and triggered violent street protests. 500 words 2030 GMT by Samir Tounsi Malawi-politics-vote,WRAP BLANTYRE With official results expected shortly and unofficial tallies suggesting he has lost, Malawi's President Peter Mutharika says this week's general election re-run was marred by "irregularities". 750 words 2100 GMT by Jack McBrams. Picture. Video Cameroon-rights-army-politics,FOCUS YAOUNDE Buffeted by security and political crises and embarrassed by military blunders, Cameroon's government has been forced to give ground on human rights under intense pressure from campaigners and the UN and from allies who once chose to overlook its flaws. 750 words moved. File picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India-hotels,SCENE NEW DELHI Staff at the luxury Suryaa hotel used to wear bright saris as they welcomed guests. Now they must don medical suits and handle gurneys as New Delhi desperately prepares for a predicted surge in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks. 700 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-GER-Bundesliga,WRAP BERLIN Werder Bremen give themselves hope of avoiding relegation from the German Bundesliga by thrashing Cologne 6-1 to grab a play-off place on the last day of the season, while champions Bayern Munich rout Wolfsburg before lifting the trophy. 650 words moved by Ryland James. Picture afp
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