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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden clocks up big wins on Super Tuesday + Trump, Taliban political chief hold talks + Fed cuts rates to counter coronavirus hit + Tornadoes kill 25 people in Tennessee + Female duo awarded top architecture prize US-politics-vote,WRAP HOUSTON, Texas Joe Biden notches up startling wins over leftist rival Bernie Sanders in the Democrats' Super Tuesday contest to challenge President Donald Trump, with projected victories showing his surprising muscle after what had appeared to be a failing campaign. 800 words 0530 GMT by Julia Benarrous with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-US-Taliban,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump says he had a "very good" talk with the Taliban political chief on the Afghan peace process, despite an eruption of violence marring a brief calm in the country. 750 words moved Sebastian Smith, with Usman Sharifi and Emal Haidary in Kabul. Picture Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to mitigate the damage the new coronavirus is wreaking on the world economy, as global health chiefs warned supplies of essential protective gear were shrinking rapidly. 700 words 0630 GMT by Heather Scott with Laurent Thomet in Beijing. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-weather-Tennessee-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON Tornadoes rip through Tennessee, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying buildings and toppling power lines hours before the southern US state voted in Super Tuesday primaries. 600 words moved by Becca Milfeld. Picture. Video. Graphic. Ireland-architecture-award-US-Pritzker,WRAP NEW YORK Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are awarded the Pritzker prize -- the first time a female duo has scooped architecture's most prestigious award. 650 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SUPER TUESDAY -- US-politics-vote-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON For a US presidential candidate left for dead just weeks ago, Joe Biden has scored a dramatic comeback capped by victories over chief rival Bernie Sanders in a majority of the 14 states contested on Super Tuesday. 700 words 0530 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture US-politics-vote-Sanders,SCENE ESSEX JUNCTION, Vermont Bernie Sanders' supporters had hoped Super Tuesday would put their candidate in an unassailable position but after a string of projected victories for Joe Biden they left a rally in Vermont with little certainty. 500 words 0630 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-bar,SCENE US-politics-vote-SuperTuesday,POINTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-measures,SCENE WENZHOU, China Constant temperature checks, a "no mask, no service" ethos, and high-tech people-tracking: welcome to the new normal in China, where reminders of the country's national mobilisation against the coronavirus lurk around every corner. 750 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video. Graphic. Health-virus-China-economy-employment,FOCUS BEIJING China's coronavirus epidemic turned a Lunar New Year family reunion into an enforced quarantine for factory worker Hu Aihua, trapping him at home and preventing him from returning to his job. 800 words moved by Beiyi Seow. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-health-abortion-politics-court,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States' Supreme Court will hear what may be its most significant case in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. 550 words 0600 GMT by Charlotte Plantive Argentina-politics-abortion,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will fulfill an election pledge next week when he brings a bill before Congress aiming to legalize abortion, setting off the latest salvos in a debate that has bitterly divided the traditionally Catholic South American nation. 750 words moved by Carlos Reyes and Nina Negron. Video. File Picture -- ASIA -- Pakistan-agriculture-climate-weather-locusts,FOCUS PIPLI PAHAR, Pakistan Pakistan's farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms devastate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring. 650 words moved by Kaneez Fatima. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-unrest-rights-children PARIS Human rights group Amnesty International accuses the Iranian security forces of killing 23 children, mostly with live ammunition, during a November crackdown on anti-government protests. 400 words moved -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics,WRAP BERLIN Lawmakers in eastern Germany's Thuringia try again to elect a new state premier, re-running a vote that sank Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party into what has been described as the biggest crisis in its history. 650 words moved by Kit Holden -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-village,INVESTIGATION MOPTI, Mali Less than a year after more than 160 Fulani civilians were massacred at dawn in Ogossagou in central Mali, terror returned to the small village. Eight witnesses gave AFP their account of the latest attack in which at least 30 civilians were butchered. 950 words 0600 GMT by Amaury Hauchard. File picture afp
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