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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Ethiopia orders 'final' assault on Tigray leaders + Argentina bids farewell to icon Maradona + US marks Thanksgiving in shadow of virus + France erupts over police beating of black producer + Fugging hell: Mocked Austrian village changes name Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed orders Ethiopia's army to launch a "final" offensive against Tigray's dissident leaders in their regional capital Mekele, saying the deadline for their surrender had expired. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,CHRONO Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,FACTS Fbl-ARG-Argentina-Maradona-death,WRAP BUENOS AIRES Tens of thousands of Argentines line up to say a final farewell to Diego Maradona, in an outpouring of love for their national hero before the funeral of one of the greatest footballers of all time. 800 words 2200 GMT by Maria Lorente. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Millions of Americans defy public heath guidelines to spend a subdued Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends as coronavirus deaths surge worldwide. 500 words 2100 GMT by Daniel Woolls. Picture. Video France-police-music-investigation,WRAP PARIS Social media users, top French footballers and politicians react with shock to graphic images of police beating a black music producer in central Paris, the latest scandal over the conduct of officers at a time when the government is pushing through a tough new security law. 550 words 2030 GMT by Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Austria-profanity-offbeat,lead VIENNA Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name -- Fugging -- after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear. 250 words 2030 GMT -- MARADONA -- Fbl-ARG-Argentina-Maradona-death-Napoli-Naples,SCENE NAPLES A cry of "Diego, Diego, Diego" goes up outside the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, where since daybreak tearful mourners have been laying candles and messages for Diego Maradona, who made the gritty southern Italian city a football power and put one over their northern rivals. 600 words 2230 by Kelly Valasquez. Picture. Video. Fbl-ARG-Maradona-coach,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES The defining moment in Diego Maradona's playing career came in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup, and the high point in his far less distinguished career as a coach possibly came in an infamous Mexican drug cartel's city more than three decades later. 650 words moved. File picture Also moved: Fbl-ARG-Maradona,OBIT Fbl-ARG-ENG-Maradona-death-agent-Smith -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-ski-tourism-EU-Germany,FACTS BERLIN The ski season is a key part of the Christmas holidays in Europe, but with Covid-19 cases soaring, the idea of hitting the slopes is proving increasingly controversial this year. 800 words moved Health-virus-Britain-vaccine-AstraZeneca,2ndlead LONDON The head of British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca says further research is needed on its Covid-19 vaccine after questions emerged over the protection it offers, but the additional testing is unlikely to affect regulatory approval in Europe. 650 words moved. File picture Health-virus-Israel-Judaism-social,FOCUS JERUSALEM For many the pandemic has been a time of devastating isolation, but it has also pushed some ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews to integrate in the world outside their narrow communities. 700 words moved by Michael Blum. File picture -- EUROPE -- Turkey-coup-trial,WRAP ANKARA A Turkish court jails more than 300 former pilots and other suspects for life in one of the largest trials stemming from the bloody 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 600 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video. We have also moved: Turkey-politics-coup,CHRONO Britain-Scotland-health-periods,FOCUS STENHOUSEMUIR, United Kingdom A group of schoolgirls who started a campaign to educate fellow pupils about period poverty want more countries to follow Scotland's example and make sanitary products free, after groundbreaking legislation is passed. 600 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-women-periods Britain-Scotland-Libya-court-Lockerbie-appeal GLASGOW Five senior judges begin deliberating their ruling in a posthumous appeal against the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi. 540 words moved. File picture Britain-budget-politics-aid LONDON Britain defends swingeing cuts planned to its overseas aid budget after an outpouring of protests that it marks a life-threatening retreat on the government's ambitions to play a global role after Brexit. 630 words moved. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- UAE-Israel-aviation-diplomacy,WRAP DUBAI A flydubai aircraft lands in Dubai from Tel Aviv, the first scheduled commercial flight between the two cities following the normalisation of ties between the UAE and Israel. 550 words moved by Sarah Stewart with Jack Guez in Tel Aviv. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Burkina-vote,WRAP OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won a second term after gaining an outright majority in the first round of elections, the country's electoral board announces. 550 words 1530 GMT. Video Zimbabwe-mining-gold-accident,lead BINDURA, Zimbabwe Around 40 informal miners have been trapped underground in northeastern Zimbabwe after a shaft in a disused gold mine collapsed, the country's miners' federation said. 400 words 1600 GMT by Farai Mugano. Graphic -- ASIA -- Iran-prisoner-Australia-Britain,WRAP SYDNEY An Australian-British lecturer jailed for spying by Iran has been released after two "traumatic" years, part of a swap for three Iranian prisoners reportedly linked to a botched Bangkok bomb plot. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video Iran-prisoner-Australia-Britain-Thailand,2ndlead BANGKOK Thailand confirms it has returned three Iranians jailed over a 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok, in an announcement that came after Tehran freed an Australian-British lecturer imprisoned for alleged spying. 550 words moved. File picture SKorea-social-digital-crime-abuse SEOUL The mastermind of a notorious online sex abuse ring is jailed for 40 years in South Korea. 400 words moved India-weather-cyclone,WRAP PUDUCHERRY, India Accurate forecasting and the evacuation of several hundred thousand people helped avert any loss of life after a cyclone clobbered southeast India, authorities say, as rescuers work to restore power and clear fallen trees. 500 words moved by Arun Sankar. Picture. Video afp
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