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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Spike in China virus deaths and cases + British finance minister quits in reshuffle shock + US in partial truce with Taliban, signs deal is near + Senate votes to restrain Trump from attacking Iran + Huawei hit with new US charges of trade secrets theft China-health-virus,WRAP BEIJING China's official death toll and infection numbers from a new coronavirus spikes dramatically after authorities changes their counting methods, fuelling concern the epidemic is far worse than being reported. 800 words 2030 GMT by Helen Roxburgh and Laurent Thomet. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-politics-government-economy,WRAP LONDON Sajid Javid quits as Britain's finance minister just weeks before the scheduled annual budget statement, in a shock move provoked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's attempts to shake up his cabinet after Brexit. 750 words moved by Alice Ritchie. Picture. File picture. Video. File video We have also moved: Britain-politics-government-economy-budget,ANALYSIS Britain-politics-government-economy-Javid,PROFILE Britain-politics-finance-Sunak-India,PROFILE US-Iran-politics-Congress-defense,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate votes to rein in President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, sharply rebuking his foreign policy despite a week earlier acquitting him in his impeachment trial. 600 words 2030 GMT by Shaun Tandon Afghanistan-US-conflict-Taliban-talks,lead BRUSSELS The United States has secured a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the Taliban. 500 words moved by Dave Clark. Picture. Video US-IT-telecom-court-China-Huawei,WRAP WASHINGTON Huawei faces fresh US criminal charges alleging the Chinese tech giant engaged in a "decades-long" effort to steal trade secrets from American companies. 600 words 2000 GMT by Rob Lever -- CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC -- China-health-virus-Japan-ship,WRAP YOKOHAMA, Japan Japan reports the first death of a person infected with novel coronavirus, as the number of cases on a quarantined cruise ship offshore soared over 200. 600 words moved by Harumi Ozawa with Miwa Suzuki in Tokyo. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic China-health-virus-Cambodia SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia A US cruise ship blocked from several Asian ports over concerns that a passenger could have been infected with the new coronavirus docks at a Cambodian pier, as frustrated holidaymakers express hope their ordeal may soon be over. 600 words moved by Suy Se. Picture. Video. Live video China-health-virus-Vietnam,WRAP BINH XUYEN,WRAP More than 10,000 people in villages near Vietnam's capital were placed under quarantine after six cases of the deadly new coronavirus were discovered there, authorities say. 550 words moved by Tran Thi Minh Ha. Picture. Video. Live video RugbyU-HKG-Asia-China-health-virus HONG KONG Rugby's Hong Kong and Singapore Sevens are postponed from April to October over the coronavirus, joining the Chinese Grand Prix, golf and football fixtures on the growing list of sporting casualties. 500 words moved by Talek Harris. File picture. File video Also moved: China-health-virus-Wuhan-foreigners,FOCUS China-health-virus-manufacturing,FOCUS China-health-virus-events,FOCUS China-health-virus-Spain-mobile,lead China-health-virus-EU -- AMERICAS -- US-entertainment-abuse-trial-Weinstein,WRAP NEW YORK Harvey Weinstein's defense team urges jurors to acquit the ex-Hollywood titan of rape and predatory sexual assault charges in closing arguments -- even though a not guilty verdict would be unpopular. 600 words 1930 GMT by Peter Hutchison. Picture US-media-newspaper-bankruptcy-McClatchy,WRAP WASHINGTON McClatchy, the second largest US newspaper group, announces it is filing for bankruptcy protection in the latest sign of turmoil for the struggling media sector. 600 words moved by Rob Lever -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA-- Libya-conflict,WRAP TRIPOLI Rival forces clash in the Libyan capital causing new civilian casualties in the grinding conflict a day after a UN Security Council resolution called for a "lasting ceasefire". 750 words 2000 GMT by Imed Lamloum. Picture Syria-conflict-Armenia-Turkey-genocide,WRAP DAMASCUS Syria's parliament recognises the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide, as tensions run high with Turkey after deadly clashes in northwest Syria. 750 words 1930 GMT by Rim Haddad. File Picture Iraq-politics-protest-women-Sadr BAGHDAD Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flood central Baghdad alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr to separate the genders in the rallies. 550 words moved Picture. Video Yemen-conflict-Saudi,WRAP RIYADH The Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels says it will put on trial military personnel suspected of being behind deadly air strikes on civilians in Yemen, where the UN has deplored horrific rights violations. 550 words moved by Haitham El-Tabei Also moved: Yemen-conflict-aid-UN-EU,FOCUS Yemen-conflict-UN-health-Jordan,FOCUS -- EUROPE -- Germany-history-war-anniversary-farright,WRAP FRANKFURT President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urges Germans to "defend democracy" on the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden in World War II, as the emboldened far right rattles the political establishment. 700 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick. Picture. File picture. File video. Graphic Ireland-politics-SinnFein-government,lead DUBLIN Sinn Fein challenges its main rival for office in Ireland to do a deal on forming a new government, after its dramatic election surge brought it to the threshold of power. 430 words moved Russia-social-marriage-family-homosexuality MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin stresses that marriage is solely a heterosexual union and supports the idea of enshrining the notion in the country's updated constitution. 350 words moved -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's army return to Kidal, a former rebel-held town that had become a symbol of the strife-torn north in a key step for government's retaking control of the lawless parts of the Sahel country. 600 words by 1930 GMT by Amaury Hauchard and Serge Daniel. File picture Sudan-US-Yemen-attack-justice,WRAP KHARTOUM Sudan says it has signed a deal with the families of the victims of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, meeting a key condition for removing the country from Washington's terrorism blacklist. 550 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali and Jay Deshmukh. File picture SAfrica-politics-parliament,WRAP CAPE TOWN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is forced to delay his annual state of the nation address as far-left Economic Freedom Fighters lawmakers protest rowdily in parliament over the presence of a former apartheid leader. 600 words 2130 GMT by Tanya Steenkamp. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- India-economy-technology-romance-hotels,FOCUS MUMBAI A new raft of Indian apps which offer rooms to unmarried couples are helping overturn traditional norms in a country where premarital sex remains taboo. 750 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly. Picture. Video Indonesia-Australia-offbeat-crocodile PALU, Indonesia An Australian television personality has thrown his hat in the ring to help capture a giant Indonesian crocodile and remove a motorcycle tyre stuck around its neck. 300 words moved afp
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