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| - Duty Editor: Susan Stumme Contact: Susan.Stumme@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus crisis overshadows US Independence Day holiday + Suicide attempts, fights on rescue boat with 180 migrants + Turkey trial of Saudi suspects in Khashoggi murder begins + NFL's Redskins agree to review controversial name + Prince Andrew under fresh scrutiny over Epstein scandal Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The coronavirus crisis overshadows the start of America's Independence Day weekend, as the surge in cases prompts Britain to include the US on a blacklist of holiday destinations. 800 words 2130 GMT by Sarah Titterton. Picture. Graphic. Video Italy-migration-politics,WRAP ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee launches an alert that its rescue boat carrying 180 migrants is in crisis and needs to disembark immediately due to deteriorating conditions and violence on board. 550 words 2000 GMT by Shahzad Abdul. Picture Turkey-Saudi-Khashoggi-murder-trial,WRAP ISTANBUL Twenty Saudi suspects including two former aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman go on trial in absentia in Turkey, accused of killing and dismembering journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. 700 words 1500 GMT by Ezzedine Said. Picture. Video Amfoot-NFL-Redskins-name-race,WRAP WASHINGTON The Washington Redskins have launched a review of the team's name, the NFL franchise said Friday, following a fresh wave of calls to scrap the moniker long criticized as racist. 650 words 2100 GMT by Gilles Clarenne. File picture. Video Britain-US-justice-Epstein-Maxwell-Andrew,2ndlead LONDON Prince Andrew is "bewildered" by claims he is stonewalling a US investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team says. 500 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. File picture. Picture. Video Graphic Also moved: Britain-US-justice-Epstein-Maxwell-Andrew,PROFILE Britain-US-justice-Epstein-Maxwell-family,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Under fire for his response to America's spiraling coronavirus caseload, President Donald Trump heads to Mount Rushmore for a night of holiday fireworks that he hopes will provide a much-needed distraction. 650 words 2100 GMT by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-settlers,FOCUS GUSH ETZION JUNCTION, Palestinian Territories Some Israeli settlers agree with their Palestinian neighbours in the occupied West Bank that the Jewish state's plan to annex part of the territory would undermine their years-long reconciliation efforts. 600 words moved by Michael Blum. Pictures. Video. Algeria-France-history-diplomacy,WRAP ALGIERS Algeria salutes the return after more than 150 years of the skulls of 24 resistance fighters decapitated during colonial France's conquest of the North African country, which had been lying in storage in a Paris museum. 650 words moved by Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret in Tunis. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- France-politics,WRAP PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron names a senior but low-profile bureaucrat as prime minister to replace Edouard Philippe, the first move in a widely expected cabinet reshuffle after dismal local election showings for the ruling party. 700 words moved by Joseph Schmid and Mariette Le Roux. Picture. Video. Graphic. Also moved: France-politics-Philippe,PROFILE France-politics-Castex,PROFILE France-politics-Macron,ANALYSIS Turkey-rights-trial-politics,WRAP ISTANBUL An Istanbul court convicts two former Amnesty Turkey leaders on terror charges in a case condemned by the rights group. 500 words moved. Video Russia-politics-media-rights,lead MOSCOW Russian prosecutors demand six years in prison for a journalist for allegedly justifying terrorism in a case that has drawn outrage from supporters and rights groups. 550 words moved by Anna Smolchenko. Picture Denmark-crime-vandalism COPENHAGEN The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, the city's most famous monument, has been vandalised but police and commentators are puzzled as to what the message really is about. 350 words moved. Picture -- AFRICA -- Cameroon-conflict-talks,WRAP YAOUNDE Cameroon's government and the leaders of English-speaking separatists have begun ceasefire talks, the rebels say, an unprecedented step towards stemming near daily violence that has killed more than 3,000 people in under three years. 700 words moved by Reinnier Kaze and Camille Malplat Mali-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO Unidentified armed men slaughter 31 villagers in brutal simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages, then kill nine soldiers responding to the assault as violence surges in the country's conflict-wracked centre. 600 words 2000 GMT. -- ASIA -- Myanmar-mining-accident-economy-jade-China,WRAP HPAKANT, Myanmar Dozens of jade miners are buried in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. 650 words moved by Lapyae Ko and Ye Aung Thu. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG China appoints a hardliner to head a new national security agency in Hong Kong as police bring the first charges under a sweeping new anti-subversion law that has shaken the semi-autonomous finance hub. 650 words moved by Jerome Taylor with Laurie Chen in Beijing. Picture. Video. Graphic. File picture. Also moved: HongKong-China-politics-rights,FOCUS HongKong-China-politics-Australia-Britain,FOCUS China-politics-diplomacy,FOCUS BEIJING From remote Himalayan valleys to small tropical islands and tense Western capitals, an increasingly assertive China is taking on conflicts around the world like never before as the United States retreats. 750 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng afp
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