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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump kicks off vote rally marathon + Senate hearings into Trump's top court pick + Fighting in Karabakh despite ceasefire deal + Scientists find proof Arctic is 'dying' + Lakers win first NBA championship in decade US-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump, trailing rival Joe Biden three weeks from Election Day, kicks off a back-to-back marathon of rallies in Florida after being knocked off the campaign trail by Covid-19. 600 words 1600 GMT by Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote-court,WRAP WASHINGTON Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's conservative pick to fill a key Supreme Court vacancy, faces a Senate grilling as confirmation hearings begin for the crucial appointment -- which Democrats appear largely powerless to block. 700 words 1500 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict,WRAP STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan Russia urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately start observing a ceasefire agreed over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as intense fighting between the two Caucasus rivals casts fresh doubt over the accord. 650 words 1600 GMT by Aris Messinis with Dmitry Zaks in Barda. Picture. Video Germany-science-Arctic-environment,WRAP BREMERHAVEN, Germany Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole return to Germany, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades. 750 words moved by Patrick Stollarz with Yannick Pasquet in Berlin. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Basket-NBA-Finals,WRAP ORLANDO, Florida The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by superstar LeBron James's triple-double, dominate the Miami Heat 106-93 to win a record-equalling 17th NBA championship but their first in a decade. 650 words moved -- NOBEL PRIZE -- Nobel-economics,WRAP STOCKHOLM US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson win the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on commercial auctions, including developing new models for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways, such as radio frequencies. 700 words 1430 GMT by Johannes Ledel and Marc Preel. Video. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Nobel-science-economics-literature-women,FACTS -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-demonstration-police,WRAP MINSK Belarusian police threaten to fire live bullets at protesters, claiming that opposition demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko are growing more radicalised, as EU ministers say they are ready to sanction the strongman leader. 500 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain,lead LONDON Staff at three field hospitals in northern England are being mobilised to prepare for a surge in coronavirus admissions, health authorities announce, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to unveil a new three-tiered system of localised restrictions. 550 words 1530 GMT by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Vatican-religion-pope-Australia-Pell,WRAP VATICAN CITY Pope Francis meets Australian Cardinal George Pell for the first time since he was jailed -- and then acquitted -- on child sex abuse charges. 500 moved by Ella Ide. Picture. Video Greece-trial-politics-farright-GoldenDawn-racism,WRAP ATHENS A Greek court rejects calls for leniency for the leaders of notorious Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, paving the way for sentences of up to 15 years after a five-year trial. 650 words 1500 GMT by John Hadoulis. Picture. Video Poland-Germany-Britain-history-WWII-bomb,WRAP WARSAW Hundreds of residents have been evacuated as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea. 600 words moved by Stanislaw Waszak. Picture -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-politics-crime-racism,WRAP JOHANNESBURG South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa calls for calm and rejects claims by pressure groups representing the country's white minority that a spike in deadly attacks on farms was "ethnic cleansing". 600 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-Turkey-Kurds-anniversary,FOCUS HASAKEH, Syria The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. 700 words moved by Delil Suleiman. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-fires,SCENE TARTOUS, Syria Suhail Deeb was eagerly waiting to harvest his olives before sweeping forest fires that ravaged large parts of Syria left him with nothing but charred trunks and branches. 500 words moved by Maher Al Mouanes. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Vietnam-Britain-migration,FOCUS NGHE AN, Vietnam Le Minh Tuan has curled up in the bed of his deceased son every night since the young man suffocated in a truck in Britain alongside dozens of other Vietnamese migrants one year ago. 700 words moved by Tran Thi Minh Ha. Picture. Video Pakistan-marriage-internet-dating,FOCUS ISLAMABAD After endlessly swiping through pictureless profiles on dating apps, Muhammad Ali Shah still hasn't found the one -- or really anyone -- to get serious with in Pakistan. In the ultra-conservative Islamic republic, where arranged marriages are the norm, he says many women choose to stay anonymous, making online dating matches tricky. 750 words moved by David Stout, with Kaneez Fatima in Lahore. Picture -- BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY -- US-EU-technology-digital-tax-OECD,WRAP PARIS The 137 nations trying to hammer out a new global standard for taxing multinational tech firms will not secure a deal by the end of this year as hoped, the OECD says. 650 words moved by Eve Szeftel and Joseph Schmid -- SPACE -- Science-space-star-black-hole PARIS Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our Sun, releasing images showing the devastating process in unprecedented detail. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey. Picture -- ENVIRONMENT -- Japan-weather-flood-typhoon,FOCUS KASUKABE, Japan It has been called Japan's underground "Parthenon", a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. 650 words moved by Shingo Ito. Picture. Video US-weather-hurricanes-climate-religion,FOCUS LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana Daniel Schexnayder has water up to his ankles as he stands outside surveying damage to his home from Hurricane Laura -- the second to pummel Louisiana in the past six weeks. But he still does not believe in climate change. 650 words moved by Leo Mouren. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Basket-NBA-Finals-Lakers-James-legacy,FOCUS ORLANDO, Florida, United States As the first player to lead three different teams to NBA titles, LeBron James has revived the question of whether he or Michael Jordan is the league's greatest-ever superstar. 800 words moved Also moved: Basket-NBA-Lakers-recovery,FOCUS Basket-NBA-Finals-Lakers-James,FACTS Tennis-FRA-Open PARIS Rafael Nadal's 13th French Open was hailed as "one of sport's greatest achievements" by close friend and rival Roger Federer, but for tennis's flagging chasing pack, it was another dagger in the heart of their ambitions. 550 words moved by Dave James. Picture afp
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