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| - Duty Editor: Tom Barfield Email: tom.barfield@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Record deaths in Russia as EU eyes summer travels + Scores die in Canada heatwave + N.Korea replaces officials over virus incident + Ethiopia downplays loss of Tigray capital + Djokovic-Anderson rivalry returns to Wimbledon Health-virus,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's Covid-19 death toll hits a new record as the country battles the highly infectious Delta variant, while Europe gears up for the launch of an EU-wide Covid certificate to boost its devastated tourism industry. 750 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Canada-US-weather-climate-death,WRAP VANCOUVER, British Columbia Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States are under heat alerts as the region bakes in record-breaking temperatures and police report scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions. 650 words 1530 GMT by Michel Comte. Picture. Video Health-virus-NKorea,5thlead SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaces several senior officials after a "crucial" coronavirus incident, state media report, potentially signalling a breach in the country's epidemic defences. 700 words moved. Picture. Video Ethiopia-Eritrea-Tigray-conflict ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia's leaders seek to downplay the significance of the army's pullback from the regional capital of war-hit Tigray, insisting they can retake the city from rebels whenever they want. 450 words moved. File pictures. Graphic Tennis-GBR-Wimbledon,WRAP LONDON Five-time champion Novak Djokovic renews his Wimbledon rivalry with Kevin Anderson as serious questions are asked over the quality of the fabled Centre Court where Serena Williams suffered her tournament-ending injury. 650 words 1600GMT. Picture. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mexico-politics-gender-rights,FOCUS MEXICO CITY As a teenager Salma Luevano was once jailed for dressing as a woman. Three decades later she is one of Mexico's first two newly elected transgender members of Congress. 600 words 1530 GMT by Natalia Cano. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-coup,FOCUS BANGKOK With bars shuttered, universities empty and hook-up apps poleaxed by internet blackouts, dating got much harder in post-coup Myanmar, but young people are still finding love -- often in the heady rush of anti-junta protests. 750 words moved by Natalia Che, with Ei San in Hong Kong. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Russia,3rdLEAD MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin says he is opposed to mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for Russians but urged the jab-sceptic population to get inoculated, as his country battles a deadly third wave. 650 words 1530 GMT by Evan Gershkovich. Picture. Video Health-virus-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON Neither the threat of dying from Covid nor an array of inducements from lottery tickets to guns and marijuana have been enough to sway America's staunchest vaccine holdouts. 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- EUROPE -- Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia-warcrimes-court-UN,WRAP THE HAGUE Two former Serbian spy chiefs in Slobodan Milosevic's regime are convicted of war crimes in a UN court, in a retrial on charges of running death squads in the 1990s Balkans wars. 650 words 1500 GMT by Danny Kemp Britain-NIreland-court-EU-Brexit-politics-trade LONDON Belfast's High Court rejects a legal challenge against a Brexit protocol agreed by London and Brussels which has disrupted trade and sparked violence in Northern Ireland. 500 words moved. -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-conflict-US-Iran,Q&A BAGHDAD The US launched deadly air strikes on pro-Iranian armed groups in Iraq and Syria this week, so are Washington and Tehran risking an explosive new confrontation? 750 words moved by Ammar Karim UAE-Israel-diplomacy-politics,WRAP DUBAI Israel's top diplomat Yair Lapid says that more cooperation deals with the UAE are on the horizon, speaking during a landmark visit to the Gulf nation. 600 words moved by Carolyn Lamboley. Picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict-rights,INTERVIEW HEBRON, Palestinian Territories When he was locked up by Palestinian security forces, rights activist Issa Amro said he was thinking about his friend Nizar Banat, who would be dead within days. 650 words moved by Claire Gounon. Picture. Video Iran-rights-executions,INTERVIEW TEHRAN Iran's use of the death penalty for crimes committed as minors does not violate human rights, a senior Iranian official insists to AFP in response to UN criticism. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-Biafra-police-court, LEAD LAGOS A group seeking a separate homeland for the ethnic Igbo people of Nigeria's southeast demand 'justice and fair hearing' after their leader Nnamdi Kanu is arrested in circumstances that remain unclear. 450 words moved Liberia-conflict-religion, FOCUS MONROVIA Former Liberian rebel General Butt Naked, notorious for sacrificing children and charging into battle in the nude, now spends his time trying to rescue ex-child soldiers from drugs. 800 words moved by Zoom Dosso. Video. Pictures. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-crime-abuse-cult-entertainment NEW YORK "Smallville" actress Allison Mack learns her sentence for her role in recruiting sex slaves to Keith Raniere's controversial NXIVM cult. 450 words 1830 GMT by Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video Haiti-politics-media-violence,WRAP PORT-AU-PRINCE A journalist and a political activist have been murdered in the Haitian capital by unidentified gunmen who shot dead at least three other residents, local media reports. 500 words 1600 GMT by Amelie Baron US-politics-NewYork,WRAP NEW YORK New York's mayoral election is thrown into disarray after the city's election board removes preliminary results that showed the contest narrowing. 500 words 1830 GMT by Peter Hutchison US-politics-Trump-immigration WESLACO, Texas Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border to denounce what he calls the worst migration crisis in American history, using an underlying theme of his presidency -- illegal immigration -- to rail against his successor Joe Biden. 500 words 1530 by Francois Picard. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-rights-security-law,lead Hong Kong Hong Kong's national security law has created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International says, a year after China imposed it on the city to crush a pro-democracy movement. 550 words moved Health-malaria-China,2ndlead GENEVA China is certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease. 600 words moved by Robin Millard Climate-coal-Asia KUALA LUMPUR Five Asian countries are responsible for 80 percent of new coal power stations planned worldwide, with the projects threatening goals to fight the climate crisis, a report warns. 450 words moved by Sam Reeves -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- EU-US-taxation,WRAP BRUSSELS The United States is urgently requesting the EU delay a bloc-wide digital tax, saying it could torpedo international talks to overhaul global taxation, according to a US diplomatic document seen by AFP. 550 words moved by Alex Pigman Togo cotton agriculture,FOCUS LOME In a bold but contested strategy, the West African state of Togo has placed a hefty bet on the private sector to revive its struggling cotton industry. 600 words moved by Emile Kouton. File picture. Graphic -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS England's defeat of Germany sends a nation's expectations of silverware after a 55-year wait skyrocketing as Gareth Southgate's side join heavyweights Spain, Italy and Belgium in the Euro 2020 quarter-finals. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic afp
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