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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Violence erupts after Breonna Taylor jury decision + New protests in Belarus over leader's inauguration + Hopes fade for last of Australia's stranded whales + Christmas under quarantine too much for All Blacks + Butterflies' colour may be key to climate survival US-police-shooting-racism-politics,WRAP LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Angry protesters demand justice for Breonna Taylor in cities across the United States after charges are filed against only one policeman involved in the controversial fatal shooting of the 26-year-old black woman, whose name has become a rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter movement. 750 words 0300 GMT by Camille Camdessus. Picture. Video Belarus-politics-unrest-inauguration,WRAP MINSK Belarusian police fire tear gas and detain dozens of people during fresh protests against strongman Alexander Lukashenko sparked by news of his secretive presidential inauguration. 700 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-vote-unrest-Lukashenko,PROFILE Australia-animal-environment,WRAP MACQUARIE HARBOUR, Australia Only a few dozen of the 470 whales stranded on Australia's coast can still be saved, rescuers warn, as they weigh euthanising those animals in most distress. 550 words 0400 GMT by Mell Chun with Andrew Beatty in Sydney RugbyU-RC-2020-AUS-NZL-RSA-ARG-health-virus WELLINGTON New Zealand Rugby refuses to rule out boycotting the end of this year's Rugby Championship in Australia after organisers unveiled a schedule that would leave the All Blacks stranded in quarantine at Christmas. 500 words moved by Neil Sands. Picture. Video Environment-climate-butterfly PARIS A butterfly's ability to absorb or reflect heat from the sun with its wings could be a matter of life and death in a warming world, according to British research that calls for gardens, parks and farms to host shady, cooling-off spots. 700 words 0430 GMT by Kelly Macnamara. Picture -- ASIA -- Vietnam-conservation-wildlife-health-virus,FOCUS NINH BINH, Vietnam Life remains precarious in Vietnam for the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal, despite a vow to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that many blame for the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words 0300 GMT by Alice Philipson. Picture. Video SKorea-politics-social-aviation,INTERVIEW SEOUL A bag of macadamia nuts proved to be the making of Park Chang-jin's political career. Once made to beg on his knees by an airline heiress, now he is seeking the chair of South Korea's third-largest party. 500 words 0330 GMT by Kang Jinkyu. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-politics-Trump WASHINGTON President Donald Trump refuses to clearly guarantee a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the upcoming US election in November to Joe Biden. 400 words moved US-vote-court,WRAP WASHINGTON Mourners flock to the US Supreme Court to pay their respects to late liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose death has opened a crucial seat on the nine-member bench that Donald Trump has vowed to fill before the November election. 600 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote-court-issues,POINTS WASHINGTON Healthcare, abortion, guns and religious liberty -- some of the most divisive issues in the United States -- will be on the docket as the Supreme Court prepares to start a new term in early October with only eight justices. 650 words 0200 GMT UN-summit-reform,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS A flurry of world leaders have appealed again to the United Nations to reform the Security Council but prospects are seen as bleak. 600 words 0200 GMT by Philippe Rater and Laura Bonilla UN-summit,WRAP UNITED NATIONS Arab leaders voice fears before the United Nations of new conflict in the region as tensions soar between Iran and the United States. 650 words moved by Philippe Rater with Shaun Tandon in Washington. Picture. Also moved: UN-summit-Lebanon Canada-politics,WRAP OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveils a grand plan to address social inequalities laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic and create one million jobs during recovery, while also extending emergency measures for a second wave of Covid-19 that he said could be worse than the first. 600 words moved by Michel Comte. Picture. Video. -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-Germany-Navalny-hospital,WRAP BERLIN Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after a month and can make a full recovery, his doctors in Berlin say. 700 words moved by Hui Min Neo with Jonathan Brown in Moscow. Picture. File picture. Video Russia-environment-climate-social,FOCUS SHIPUNOVO, Russia Equipped with a shovel, Grigory Kuksin lifts and turns smouldering earth in the marshy clearing of a sprawling Siberian forest as part of a battle against carbon-emitting "zombie fires". 700 words 0330 GMT by Romain Colas. Picture. Video. -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-blast-business,FOCUS BEIRUT Standing in the gutted ruins of her bar destroyed by Beirut's massive port blast, Lebanese entrepreneur Gizelle Hassoun hopes crowdfunding can help save her business from the rubble. 750 words 0400 GMT by Alice Hackman. Picture. Video. -- AFRICA -- Mauritius-Japan-environment-oil,Q&A NAIROBI On July 25, a cargo ship loaded with thousands of tonnes of fuel ran aground off Mauritius, leading to the worst environmental disaster ever witnessed in the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago. AFP summarises the latest news from the area. 750 words 0300 GMT by Marion Douet. File video. File picture. Health-virus-Madagascar-tourism-environment,VIDEOESSAY ANDASIBE, Madagascar Perched on a branch, the lemur blinks back intently at a group of gawking tourists disrupting a coronavirus-induced spell of tranquillity outside Madagascar's Andasibe national park. 450 words 0330 GMT -- BUSINESS -- US-IT-politics-China,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's war on Chinese technology firms has changed the ground rules for global business, underscoring a new political reality that could have negative repercussions for American firms. 750 words 0200 GMT by Delphine Touitou and Rob Lever US-banking-racism-WellsFargo,WRAP NEW YORK Wells Fargo's chief executive apologizes over remarks that blamed the bank's mostly-white operating leadership on a lack of available black talent as the embattled lender seeks to quell a public uproar. 600 words moved by John Biers Australia-banking-crime,2ndlead SYDNEY Australia's Westpac bank agrees to pay a record AU$1.3 billion fine for more than 23 million breaches of money-laundering laws and failure to block child exploitation payments. 600 words moved Banking-corruption-investigation,ANALYSIS LONDON Financial regulators must impose more heavy penalties to combat money laundering, experts argue, after an international journalism investigation alleged that astronomical amounts of dirty cash has been flowing for years through some top global banks. 600 words 0300 GMT by Veronique Dupont and Eve Szeftel -- SPORT -- China-sport-lifestyle-elderly,FOCUS SHANGHAI Chen Jifang hits the gym for at least two hours every day and has the physique to prove it. At nearly 70, she's being held up as a shining example as China orders its vast population to get fit. 600 words 0300 GMT by Peter Stebbings with Jessica Yang. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-health-virus-music-opera,lead NEW YORK New York's Metropolitan Opera announces the "painful" cancelation of its entire 2020-21 season over the still-spreading coronavirus, a major blow for the city's decimated arts and culture industry. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture. afp
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