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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 14041 4636 -- TOP STORIES -- + Bernie Sanders sweeps New Hampshire primary + Virus death toll in China passes 1,100 + Japan cruise ship reports 39 more virus cases + Turkey threat to attack Syria regime forces 'everywhere' + Fossil fuel air pollution costs $8 billion a day: report US-politics-vote,WRAP MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire's high-stakes Democratic primary, leaving rivals including party stalwart Joe Biden in his wake as he stakes his claim to challenge President Donald Trump in November. 850 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video. Graphics. Videographics. Live Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-Sanders,SCENE China-health-virus,WRAP BEIJING The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic climbs past 1,100 but the number of new cases falls for a second straight day, after the World Health Organization urges global unity to combat the "grave threat". 600 words 0930 GMT by Laurent. Picture. Video. Graphic China-health-virus-Japan-cruise,WRAP YOKOHAMA Another 39 people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities say, as thousands more steel themselves for a second week in quarantine. 700 words moved by Quentin Tyberghien. Picture. Video Also moving: China-health-virus-Japan-test,Q&A Syria-conflict-Turkey-Russia, WRAP ISTANBUL Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens to strike Syrian regime forces 'everywhere' in if his soldiers are harmed, and accuses Damascus ally Russia of committing "massacres" in Idlib. 500 words 1030 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture. Video Environment-health-economy-energy-pollution PARIS The global cost of air pollution caused by fossil fuels is US$8 billion a day, or roughly 3.3 percent of the world's GDP, an environmental research group says. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC -- China-health-virus-Thailand-cruise BANGKOK On board a cruise ship that is being rejected at Asian ports over coronavirus fears, stoic passengers are keeping spirits up with poolside yoga and rounds of applause for the crew. 400 words 1030 GMT by Dene-Hern Chen We have also moved: China-virus-health-Thailand China-health-virus-hospital,FOCUS BEIJING Doctors on the frontline of China's new coronavirus epidemic are facing a daunting task: treat an ever-growing number of infected patients and risk getting infected themselves due to a drastic shortage of masks and other protective equipment. 800 words moved by Eva Xiao and Ludovic Ehret. Picture China-virus-health-internet-computers,FOCUS SHANGHAI Virus-phobia has sent hundreds of millions of Chinese flocking to online working options, with schools, businesses, government departments, medical facilities -- even museums and zoos -- wrapping themselves in the digital cloud for protection. 800 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video We have also moved: HongKong-China-epidemic,FOCUS Gulf-economy-China-energy,FOCUS DUBAI The coronavirus crisis, which has already battered oil prices, threatens to further undercut Gulf economies suffering a prolonged downturn and struggling to wean themselves from a decades-old energy addiction. 650 words 1030 GMT by Omar Hasan -- AMERICAS -- Venezuela-politics-diplomacy,WRAP CARACAS Opposition leader Juan Guaido returns to Venezuela after an international support-building tour and calls on the people in the crisis-wracked nation to keep pushing back against President Nicolas Maduro. 550 words moved by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video. US-politics-justice-trial-Stone,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump faces fresh accusations of abuse of power after appearing to pressure the Justice Department to seek a lighter prison sentence for his longtime political aide Roger Stone. 700 words moved by Paul Handley. File picture US-guns-education-entertainment,INTERVIEW MIAMI Two years after a shooting rampage at a school in Parkland, Florida, "the rage, the frustration, the trauma" of the survivors is the focus of a new documentary called "Us Kids" that aims to put gun violence at the heart of this year's US presidential race. 600 words moved by Leila Macor and Romain Raynaldy in Los Angeles. File picture. File video US-IT-politics-antitrust,WRAP WASHINGTON A US regulatory agency vows to review acquisitions made by five Big Tech firms over the past decade -- opening the door to a wave of potential antitrust investigations. 650 words moved by Rob Lever -- ASIA -- Bangladesh-prostitution-death-religion,FOCUS DAULATDIA, Bangladesh Often treated as less than human in life, there has been little dignity in death for the sex workers of one of the world's biggest brothels: their bodies frequently tossed into unmarked graves or dumped in the river. 800 words moved by Shafiqul Alam. Picture Vietnam-fbl-economy-Vingroup HUNG YEN, Vietnam After a career that began in instant noodles, Vietnam's richest man knows all about long shots, and he's now taken another: trying to get his football-mad country to their first World Cup. 700 words moved by Quy Le Bui. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA-- Syria-conflict,WRAP BEIRUT Syrian regime forces are securing the environs of a key highway they seized from rebels and jihadists, pressing on with their offensive in the northwest despite spiralling tensions with rebel-backer Turkey. 600 words 1030 GMT. Picture. Video Sudan-ICC-unrest-Darfur,WRAP KHARTOUM Global rights groups including Amnesty International call for the swift handover of Sudan's former strongman Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court after the country's new authorities pledged to bring him to justice for war crimes in Darfur. 500 words 1030 GMT by Jay Deshmukh Egypt-coal-health-environment,PHOTOESSAY CAIRO In a village near Cairo, men covered in soot and sweat labour over burning mounds of charcoal for shisha pipes and barbeques, inhaling plumes of smoke without facemasks and earning a paltry $125 a month. 400 words 1300 GMT. Picture -- AFRICA -- BUHERA, Zimbabwe Just under a year ago, Alice Posha fled her home in the middle of the night and then watched as it was swept away by floods. 2,000 words special report moved by Ish Mafundikwa in Zimbabwe and Beatrice Debut in Zambia and South Africa. Pictures. Video -- BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY -- US-IT-politics-antitrust,WRAP WASHINGTON A US regulatory agency vows to review acquisitions made by five Big Tech firms over the past decade -- opening the door to a wave of potential antitrust investigations. 650 words moved by Rob Lever afp
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