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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden joins Senate battle, McConnell accepts loss + European nations impose pre-Christmas virus curbs + Super cyclone threatens mass destruction in Fiji + Verdict due in 'Charlie Hebdo' attacks trial + Lovesick man jailed for anti-lockdown jetski trip US-vote,WRAP ATLANTA President-elect Joe Biden throws his weight into the Democratic battle for control of the US Senate, as his White House win is finally acknowledged by top Republicans and holdout foreign leaders. 800 words moved by Jim Watson with Michael Mathes in Washington. Graphic. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP BERLIN EU members agree to start coronavirus vaccination on the same day, as several European countries tighten restrictions and Germany registers a record death toll on the first day of its new lockdown. 700 words 1030 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Video. Fiji-Tonga-weather,lead SUVA Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone are told to hunker down at home or head to emergency shelters immediately as authorities warn of the storm's potential cause mass destruction. 500 words moved. Picture. Graphic France-attacks-trial,WRAP PARIS Judges are set to issue their verdict on 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered some of France's most famous cartoonists at weekly Charlie Hebo in 2015, killings that horrified the nation. 650 words 0930 GMT by Anne-Sophie Lasserre. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Britain-offbeat LONDON A lovesick Scottish man who bought a jet-ski so he could evade lockdown measures to visit his girlfriend in the Isle of Man has been jailed for breaching coronavirus restrictions, reports say. 300 words moved. -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Germany,2ndlead FRANKFURT Germany registers a record number of deaths from Covid-19 on the first day of a new partial lockdown that will keep schools and non-essential shops closed until at least January 10. 450 words 0930 GMT by Ed Frankl. Picture. Video Health-virus-Moderna-vaccine WASHINGTON US regulators release new data confirming Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective, a strong sign that it could receive emergency approval in days and be ready to roll out by next week. 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture. Graphic. Health-virus-US-vaccine-society-minority,FOCUS NEW YORK The first Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine, live on television, were Black caregivers, optics that illustrate a daunting challenge facing the nationwide campaign: persuading skeptical African Americans to get inoculated. 650 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture. Video Health-virus-US-hospital,FOCUS LOS ANGELES California officials order thousands of extra body bags as record coronavirus cases left Los Angeles with fewer than 100 intensive care beds available for a county of 10 million people. 550 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture Health-virus-Germany-toys-leisure,FOCUS BERLIN Many Germans have turned to model railways this year as coronavirus restrictions leave them looking for ways to entertain themselves and their families at home. 550 words moved by Femke Colborne. Picture Health-virus-Spain-economy-internet,FOCUS VILLALBA DE DUERO, Spain Tired of Madrid's crowds, Antonio Linaje took advantage of the shift to telework sparked by the pandemic to move back to the village where he spent his holidays as a child. 650 words moved by Alvaro Villalobos. Picture. Video -- ROHINGYA SPECIAL REPORT -- Rohingya-migration-trafficking-brides,SPECIALREPORT KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Many Rohingya women face a bleak choice: stay in a squalid refugee camp, hopeless and starving, or leave, risking death, rape and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. 1,300 words moved by Sam Jahan, with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Sam Reeves in Kuala Lumpur. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-family,FOCUS LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea while trying to sail to him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. 550 words moved by Haeril Halim. Picture. Video. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS British and European negotiators have made progress towards agreeing fair trade rules but are still far apart on access to fishing, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says. 550 words 1000 GMT by Dave Clark. Picture. Video Germany-culture-history-museum-politics,FOCUS BERLIN A reconstructed Prussian palace opens in Berlin as a museum complex housing colonial artifacts, just as debate is gathering pace around the return of treasures plundered from abroad. 650 words 1300 GMT by Isabelle Le Page. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-nuclear-politics-EU,WRAP VIENNA The remaining parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal hold a virtual meeting in the wake of further breaches of the accord's limits by Tehran and high tension in the region. 500 words 1100 GMT by Jastinder Khera Iraq-alcohol-conflict-minorities,FOCUS BAGHDAD Escalating attacks on the Iraqi capital's few liquor stores have terrified shop-owners who fear hardline Islamists are flexing their muscle against alcohol consumption. 750 words by Ammar Karim. Video. Picture WSahara-diplomacy-Morocco-US-Israel,Q&A NICOSIA US President Donald Trump's surprise backing of Morocco's claim to sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara upended years of international consensus, but will this break a deadlock or inflame a conflict? 850 words moved by Peter Martell. File picture. File video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-children,SCENE KANKARA, Nigeria Umar Ahmad, 18, who escaped from abductors who seized more than 300 schoolboys in northwest Nigeria, recounts how gunmen made them walk for hours through the forest, as parents plead with the government to rescue students still missing. 600 words 1100 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Graphic. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Cabinet-Buttigieg-transport,FOCUS WASHINGTON Pete Buttigieg's nomination to be transportation secretary caps a meteoric rise for the former small town Indiana mayor and make him the first openly gay Senate-confirmed member of a US presidential cabinet. 550 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture -- ASIA -- China-Australia-trade-barley,WRAP SYDNEY Australia says it will ask the World Trade Organization to probe Chinese tariffs on barley imports, ramping up tensions between the two a day after Canberra hit out at a reported ban on coal exports as a breach of WTO rules. 650 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video Japan-crime-arson-animation,WRAP TOKYO Japanese prosecutors charge a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people, the country's deadliest violent crime in decades. 600 words 1100 GMT by Kyoko Hasegawa and Natsuko Fukue. File picture. File video Taiwan-US-China-military TAIPEI The United States has issued an export permit for a digital sonar system critical to Taiwan's indigenous submarine project, a top defence official says. 350 words moved Marshalls-crime-drugs MAJURO, Marshall Islands Marshall Islands police find the Pacific nation's largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas, possibly for years. 250 words moved. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mongolia-China-language-culture-education,FOCUS ULAANBAATAR In a classroom in Mongolia's capital students pass over the Soviet-era Cyrillic alphabet they grew up with and turn their copybooks sideways to practice the traditional, vertical Mongolian script that dates back to the empire of Genghis Khan. 750 words moved by Khaliun Bayartsogt. Picture. Video. Graphic Indonesia-environment-forests-gender-social,FEATURE BENER MERIAH, Indonesia Awake at dawn, Sumini does her household chores then leads a team of women into the jungles of Indonesia's Sumatra island on a mission to combat rampant deforestation and wildlife poaching. 800 words moved by Alfath Asmunda. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- RugbyU-JPN-Goromaru TOKYO Japanese rugby star Ayumu Goromaru announces his retirement, admitting he struggled to deal with fame but saying he hoped he helped transform his country's rugby fortunes. 500 words moved -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-MaRainey,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Four months after his death shocked the world, trailblazing US actor Chadwick Boseman makes his heartbreaking, hotly Oscar-tipped final film appearance in 1920s blues drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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