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| - Duty Editor: Rose Troup Buchanan Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden, Suga pledge unity on China, climate change + Queen's 'strength and stay' Prince Philip buried + Castro rule in Cuba at an end as Raul steps down + Former FedEx employee kills eight, wounds several + 'Narcocat': Panama prison's feline courier caught US-Japan-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States and Japan vow to stand firm together against an assertive China and to step up cooperation on climate change and next-generation technology as President Joe Biden makes his first summit a show of alliance unity. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture. Video Britain-royals-Philip-funeral,WRAP WINDSOR, United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II bids a final farewell to her late husband, Prince Philip, at a royal funeral like no other, curtailed by coronavirus restrictions but reflecting his long life of military and public service. 750 words 0800 GMT by Phil Hazlewood. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Britain-royals-Philip,OBIT Britain-royals-Philip-funeral,CHRONO Britain-royals-Philip-funeral-guests,FACTS Britain-royals-Philip-funeral,QUOTES Britain-royals-Philip-funerals,FACTS Cuba-politics-party,WRAP HAVANA The all-powerful Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) opens a historic congress to rubber-stamp the transfer of power to a new generation as outgoing leader Raul Castro commits it to "respectful" talks with the United States. 850 words moved by Katell Abiven. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Cuba-politics-CIA Cuba-politics-party-Castro,CHRONO Cuba-politics-Communism-world-weaponry-conflict,FACTS US-crime-shooting,WRAP INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana A former FedEx employee fatally shoots eight people and wounds several others at the delivery company's facility in the US city of Indianapolis before killing himself, authorities say after the latest mass shooting to jolt the country. 700 words moved by Jeff Dean. Picture. Video. Graphic Panama-prison-drugs-animal-offbeat PANAMA CITY Authorities in Panama intercept an unlikely smuggler, a fluffy white cat, bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body as it tries to enter a prison. 200 words moved. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The global coronavirus death toll is expected to reach three million as the race for immunisation continues and countries like India grapple with ferocious new waves of infections. 500 words by AFP bureaus moved. File picture. Graphic Health-virus-Uruguay,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO Battling the world's highest coronavirus infection rate as ambulances queue to deposit patients at hospitals bulging at the seams, Uruguay has gone from a shining example of Covid control to a nation in pandemic crisis. 800 words moved by Gabriela Vaz and Mariette le Roux. File picture. Graphic Health-virus-Brazil-cemetery,FOCUS SAO PAULO In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo's largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can't remember performing more than 10 night burials. But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept across Brazil, that exception has become the rule. 650 words moved by Paulina Ramon. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-Japan-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States and Japan vow to stand firm together against an assertive China and to step up cooperation on climate change and next-generation technology as President Joe Biden makes his first summit a show of alliance unity. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture. File picture. Video US-politics-immigration-refugees,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden's administration announces he is scrapping his pledge for a rapid expansion in the number of refugees allowed into the United States, but seems to backtrack later in the day after fierce blowback from within his Democratic Party. 750 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture US-police-racism,FOCUS MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota More shocking bodycam footage, more fatal shootings by officers, and a murder trial nearing its conclusion -- public trust in the US police has seldom been more strained. 600 words moved by Ben Sheppard. Picture. Video Also moved: US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,POINTS US-space-Moon-lander,lead WASHINGTON NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency says, in a huge victory for Elon Musk's company. 500 words moved -- ASIA -- Pakistan-France-unrest-religion,FOCUS ISLAMABAD The French community in Pakistan is torn between disbelief, fear and annoyance in reaction to their embassy's call for them to leave the country in response to Francophobic rioting this week by an extremist Islamic party. Most, it seems, have decided to stay put. 600 words 0200 GMT. File picture. Moved: Pakistan-France-unrest-religion-technology,WRAP Health-virus-India,Lead NEW DELHI New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with more than 200,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds. 600 words 0730 GMT by Bhuvan Bagga with Sailendra Sil in Kolkata. Graphic. Picture. Video. Live video HongKong-politics-justice,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is jailed for 14 months along with four other veteran democracy activists for their roles in protests that helped trigger a sweeping crackdown on dissent by China -- sentences that prompted consternation from the US, Britain and the EU. 800 words moved. Graphic. Picture. Video. Also moved: HongKong-China-politics-demonstration,CHRONO HongKong-China-politics-media-Lai-unrest,PROFILE Pakistan-culture-religion-Islam-Qari,FOCUS ISLAMABAD To master the art of Koran recitation, 21-year-old Hassan Ali Kasi had to follow a strict regime of yoga, hours of rehearsing vocal scales -- and a total ban on biryani. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Tennis-ATP-MON,WRAP MONTE-CARLO Rafael Nadal's bid for a 12th Monte Carlo Masters title is shattered by Russia's Andrey Rublev, who sweeps to a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 quarter-final win, a day after world number one Novak Djokovic was also knocked out. 600 words moved. 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