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| - Duty Editor: Alex Nicoll Email: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Fauci raises doubt about China, Russia vaccines + Trump says to ban app TikTok from United States + Media scion James Murdoch quits News Corp board + US teen charged as 'mastermind' in Twitter hack + Beyonce delights fans with album 'Black Is King' Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The safety of coronavirus vaccines in development by China and Russia is called into question by America's top infectious diseases official as the world scrambles for answers to a pandemic the WHO warns will be felt for decades. 650 words 0800 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-China-politics-TikTok,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says he will bar fast-growing social media app TikTok from the United States as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence. 500 words 0700 GMT US-media-television-management,lead NEW YORK Former 21st Century Fox chief executive James Murdoch, son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, resigns from News Corp's board, according to a document released by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. 350 words moved US-IT-crime-hacking-Twitter,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Criminal charges are filed against the suspected teenage mastermind of an epic Twitter hack and two others who allegedly helped hijack celebrity accounts to swindle people out of more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scheme. 650 words moved by Glenn Chapman with Leila Macor in Miami Entertainment-US-music-video-Beyonce-Disney NEW YORK Pop royalty Beyonce releases her much-hyped visual album "Black Is King," an aesthetically ambitious video billed as a companion to her 2019 album of songs inspired by Disney's live-action remake of "The Lion King." 550 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-Trump-Portland-demonstration,2ndlead WASHINGTON US federal officers will stay in the protest-wracked city of Portland until local law enforcement officials finish a "cleanup of anarchists and agitators," President Donald Trump says. 400 words 0600 GMT US-Bahamas-weather-hurricane,WRAP MIAMI Hurricane Isaias lashes the Bahamas as it churns toward Florida, bringing new dangers to a US state suffering record deaths from an unrelenting coronavirus outbreak. 500 words 0730 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Britain-crime-Epstein-Maxwell,WRAP NEW YORK A New York court unseals emails revealing that disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein tried to reassure accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell by telling her she had "done nothing wrong." 650 words moved by Peter Hutchison. File picture Health-virus-US-economy-politics-aid WASHINGTON Jobless Americans are set to become poorer when extra unemployment payments expire, after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on extending them despite mounting signs of a severe economic downturn. 600 words moved by Chris Stein. File picture. Graphic US-China-rights-sanction-Xinjiang,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States imposes sanctions on a major paramilitary group with vast interests in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, accusing it of facilitating widespread abuses against Uighur Muslims. 550 words moved by Shaun Tandon -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Spain-EU-migrants,FOCUS LEPE, Spain Lamine Diakite has been on the street for two weeks since the Spanish shantytown he was staying in burnt down, one of hundreds of fruit pickers abandoned as virus cases soar. 600 words 0600 GMT by Alvaro Villalobos. Picture. Video Health-virus-vaccine-Sanofi-GSK-US-vaccines,3rdlead PARIS Pharma giants Sanofi and GSK will receive up to $2.1 billion from the US government for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine as the world scrambles for an answer to the pandemic. 700 words moved by Mariette Le Roux Russia-politics-rights-demonstration-investigation,FOCUS KHABAROVSK, Russia Locals say a struggle for democratic freedoms is unfolding in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk, where the arrest of a popular governor has unleashed massive protests. 600 words moved. Picture. Video Somalia-livestock-exports-religion-economy,FOCUS MOGADISHU The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is a time for celebration, not least among Somalia's livestock herders and traders who export millions of livestock to feed pilgrims. 700 words moved by Mustafa Haji Abdinur. Picture. Video Italy-migrants-politics-Tunisia-refugee,FOCUS LAMPEDUSA, Italy Out in the Mediterranean, under a baking sun, fisherman Ezio Billeci comes across a boat of vulnerable migrants and calls for help, but for hours the only response he gets from Italian authorities is to "stand by". 700 words moved by Andrea Bernardi with Ella Ide and Alexandria Sage in Rome. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-politics-election,WRAP BAGHDAD Iraq will hold its next parliamentary elections nearly a year early, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi announces, as he seeks to make good on promises made when he came to power in May. 450 words moved Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,WRAP MINA, Saudi Arabia Muslim pilgrims cast sanitised pebbles as they "stoned the devil" in the last major ritual of the hajj, which the Saudi king acknowledged had been tough to organise amid the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,FOCUS MECCA, Saudi Arabia A smaller carbon footprint, less waste and more environmentally friendly -- this year's pilgrimage to Mecca, dramatically scaled down due to coronavirus, has opened up the prospect of a "green hajj". 700 words moved. Picture. -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest-shooting,WRAP BUKAVU, DR Congo A drunken soldier in DR Congo's troubled east opens fire on passers-by, killing at least 13 people including a two-year-old girl and seven women. 400 words moved -- ASIA -- HongKong-politics HONG KONG Hong Kong's arrest warrants for activists overseas show that exile and foreign nationality are no protection against the city's sweeping national security law, one of the targeted dissidents warns. 400 words moved Taiwan-fashion-offbeat,FOCUS TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan's trendiest couple these days are neither young celebrities nor teen influencers -- they are an octogenarian duo who run a mom-and-pop laundry service and have become an online sensation by modelling abandoned clothes. 600 words moved by Amber Wang. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Britain-film-people-Parker,2ndlead LONDON Alan Parker, who bent genres and celebrated music with hits such as "Bugsy Malone", "The Commitments" and "Evita", has died at the age of 76. 300 words moved. File picture -- BUSINESS & TECH -- US-earnings-oil-ExxonMobil, WRAP NEW YORK Exxon Mobil and Chevron report hefty losses as the weakened economic outlook due to the coronavirus pandemic pressures the industry to double down on cost cuts. 600 words moved by John Biers afp
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