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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump vs Biden in final election debate + US Senate committee backs Barrett for top court + Iran, Russia deny US vote interference + Fresh unrest rocks Nigeria's biggest city + Hariri renamed Lebanon PM after crisis US-vote,WRAP NASHVILLE, Tennessee Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet for a final televised debate that may provide the president, trailing in the polls, with his last opportunity to make the case for reelection to a wide audience. 600 words 1630 GMT by Eric Baradat with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote-justice-court-Barrett,WRAP WASHINGTON The Senate Judiciary Committee approves conservative Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, setting the stage for final approval on Monday that would give President Donald Trump a key victory ahead of the November 3 election. 550 words 1430 GMT by Paul Handley US-vote-Iran-Russia-hacking-security,WRAP TEHRAN Iran and Russia strongly deny US allegations of having taken actions to influence public opinion ahead of the November 3 presidential election. 750 words moved Nigeria-unrest,WRAP LAGOS Shots rang out and a prison is set ablaze as fresh unrest rocks Nigeria's biggest city Lagos after the shooting of protesters that drew international outrage. 600 words 1700 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video Lebanon-politics,WRAP BEIRUT Three-time Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri is renamed to the post to create a reform-orientated cabinet that can lift the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades. 650 words 1600 GMT. Picture. Video Also moved: Lebanon-politics-Hariri,PROFILE -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP DUBLIN Businesses close across Ireland for a second national lockdown, as record coronavirus case surges in Germany and Italy help spread gloom across the continent. 700 words 1500 GMT by Joe Stenson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccine-trials PARIS None of the trials of Covid-19 candidate vaccines can detect a reduction in serious outcomes such as hospitalisation or death, a leading public health expert says. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey -- US VOTE -- US-vote-automobile-layoffs-GM,FOCUS LORDSTOWN, Ohio Workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio listened when President Donald Trump told them the region would soon be booming. But two years after that 2017 speech, the plant closed. 750 words moved by John Biers. Picture. Video Also moved: US-vote-automobile-trade,Q&A US-vote-economy-trade-manufacturing-China,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON Donald Trump has often boasted that his aggressive trade policies have helped American companies, but the impact of those tactics on consumers and the economy overall are less clear-cut. 750 words moved by Delphine Touitou. File picture -- EUROPE -- Greece-trial-farright,WRAP ATHENS A Greek court orders neo-Nazi Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos and his former top aides to immediately begin serving prison sentences, capping one of the most significant trials in the country's political history. 650 words 1500 GMT by Erika Vallianou. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON European Union negotiators head to London to resume Brexit trade talks after Britain called off a boycott, with both sides vowing to work round the clock to seal a deal in the slender time left. 650 words 1600 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video France-attack,WRAP PARIS The investigation into the murder of a French teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turns to Syria where the killer had a jihadist contact, a source close to the case says. 700 words 1430 GMT by Sylvie Maligorne and Jurgen Hecker. Picture EU-rights-award-Belarus,WRAP BRUSSELS The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for human rights to the movement opposing President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. 500 words moved by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict-ICRC,INTERVIEW BARDA, Azerbaijan The head of a Red Cross mission monitoring the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict calls for all parties to stop shelling civilians and respect international law in fighting that has killed nearly 1,000 people. 650 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Also moved: Azerbaijan-Armenia-conflict,SCENE Ukraine-vote-Russia-conflict,FOCUS SLOVYANSK President Volodymyr Zelensky rose to power last year on a pledge to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine which has left Russia-backed separatists controlling two areas of the country and thousands dead. 750 words moved by Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture. Video Spain-politics-justice,FOCUS MADRID Spain's government freezes its proposed controversial reform of a top legal body that critics warned could undermine the judicial system's independence in concerns echoed by Brussels. 650 words 1500 GMT by Marie Giffard -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Sudan-diplomacy,WRAP JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation has visited Sudan to discuss normalising relations following the Jewish state's US-brokered deals with UAE and Bahrain. 600 words 1500 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee Saudi-Turkey-diplomacy-trade,FOCUS RIYADH From pickled vine leaves to coffee and cheese, Saudi supermarkets are taking Turkish products off the shelves after calls for a boycott, as rivalry between Riyadh and Ankara heats up. 800 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture Egypt-vote,ADVANCER CAIRO Egyptians go to the polls this weekend to elect a new parliament which critics say will just replicate a "rubber-stamp" body in place since 2015 under hardline President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. 580 words moved by Menna Zaki Also moved: Egypt-vote-Sisi,CHRONO Egypt-vote-repression,CHRONO -- AFRICA -- Seychelles-vote,WRAP VICTORIA The Seychelles kicks off three days of voting for the president and lawmakers, with polling to be spread out across the 115 scattered islands making up the idyllic archipelago. 700 words moved. Picture. File Video -- ASIA -- Thailand-politics-royals-unrest,WRAP BANGKOK Thailand's premier revokes an emergency decree aimed at quelling pro-democracy protests after it failed to stamp out daily rallies demanding his resignation and reforms of the unassailable monarchy. 700 words moved by Thanaporn Promyamyai. Picture. Video China-Vatican-diplomacy-religion-rights,WRAP BEIJING A secretive 2018 agreement between Beijing and the Vatican is renewed, despite strident US condemnation and warnings from underground Chinese priests loyal to Rome that they have only become more marginalised since it was signed. 750 words moved by Laurie Chen. Picture. Video HongKong-China-Taiwan-politics-crime-unrest,FACTS HONG KONG Hong Konger Chan Tong-kai admits to murdering his pregnant girlfriend in a Taipei hotel room nearly two years ago. He has even said he is willing to return to Taiwan and face trial. Yet he remains a free man. 750 words moved by Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao Kyrgyzstan-crime-politics,lead BISHKEK The United States welcomes Kyrgyzstan's detention of an alleged crime boss who Washington says is a major force in drug trafficking, after the Central Asian country's new government pledged to fight organised crime. 500 words moved -- SPACE -- Space-Russia-US-ISS,WRAP ALMATY An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touch down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-BRA-Pele,FOCUS SAO PAULO Considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, Pele will celebrate his 80th birthday Friday, confined to his home in Brazil because of Covid-19 but meeting the milestone with his trademark laugh. 550 words moved by Rodrigo Almonacid. File picture Cricket-BAN-women-Bangladesh DHAKA One of Bangladesh's top women cricketers has hit critics for six after being accused of disrespecting national culture by posing for photos in full wedding attire... and a bat. 250 words moved. Picture afp
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