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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Paris faces threat of maximum coronavirus alert + Trump cuts refugee numbers, denouncing migrants + Lebanon, Israel to hold first talks in 30 years + Armenian, Azerbaijani forces intensify shelling + Fires spike in Brazilian Amazon, scientists say Health-virus,WRAP MADRID The coronavirus situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, with French authorities warning that Paris could be put on maximum alert and Spain extending drastic restrictions across its capital Madrid. 700 words 0200 GMT by Hazel Ward with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video US-diplomacy-refugee-politics,3rdlead WASHINGTON The United States will admit a record low of no more than 15,000 refugees over the coming year despite surging global displacement, as President Donald Trump rallies against migrants on the campaign trail. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Pictures Lebanon-Israel-border-UN-US,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanon and Israel say they will hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed maritime border, in what Washington hails as a "historic" agreement between two sides technically still at war. 700 words moved by Bachir El Khoury. Picture. File picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,UPDATE STEPANAKERT Armenian and Azerbaijani forces intensify their shelling as French President Emmanuel Macron says jihadist militants have been deployed to Nagorny Karabakh in a "serious new" development. 900 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict, SCENE Brazil-environment-Amazon-fires,WRAP RIO DE JANEIRO The number of forest fires in Brazil's Amazon increased sharply in September, satellite images show, fueling growing criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policies. 550 words moved by Louis Genot. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-unemployment-manufacturing,WRAP WASHINGTON Downbeat statements by US lawmakers dampen expectations for the passage of more fiscal stimulus as new government data shows continuing strain on consumers impacted by the coronavirus downturn. 800 words moved by Chris Stein US-conflict-IS-Justice,FOCUS WASHINGTON The United States has repatriated and prosecuted 27 nationals who joined the Islamic State group, while European allies continue to balk at doing so. 500 words moved by Paul Handley US-vote-racism-health,FOCUS JACKSON, Mississippi As an icebreaker, Antonio Wiggins often begins by talking sports. But the conversations between the Jackson, Mississippi, barber and his customers, African-American men, tend to turn very quickly to more weighty subjects. 650 words 0130 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video US-economy-unemployment-politics,FOCUS WASHINGTON Flight attendant Kristine Lambiris kept working after her husband lost his job when the coronavirus shut businesses across the United States, but now she's likely days away from being laid off herself. 700 words 0130 GMT by Chris Stein Health-virus-Mexico-religion-Mennonite,FOCUS EL SABINAL, Mexico When an isolated Mennonite community in the deserts of northern Mexico timidly opened up to the outside world through the internet, it discovered that a pandemic was sweeping the planet. 500 words 0130 GMT by Herika Martinez. Picture US-IT-lifestyle-privacy-Amazon,FOCUS WASHINGTON It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon -- a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people's homes as a security sentry. 550 words 0130 GMT by Rob Lever -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-Navalny-Germany-poisoning,FOCUS BERLIN Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny recounts how he suddenly felt unwell on a flight over Siberia, cold sweat pouring down his brow, in his first media interview since his hospitalisation with suspected exposure to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. 750 words moved by Deborah Cole. File picture. File video Also moved: Russia-politics-Navalny-Germany,CHRONO Russia-politics-Navalny-Putin,3rdlead EU-summit,WRAP BRUSSELS EU leaders fire a warning at Turkey over its gas drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean, but stop short of imposing immediate sanctions. 750 words 0300 GMT by Damon Wake. Picture. Video Bulgaria-history-architecture,FOCUS BUZLUDZHA, Bulgaria Nestled in Bulgaria's central Balkan Mountains, an international team of art experts and architects is hard at work trying to preserve one of the country's most striking monuments, a communist-era "flying saucer" perched on a hillside. 700 words 0300 GMT BY Vessela Sergueva. Picture. Video France-pornography-abuse-investigation,FOCUS PARIS A rape investigation targeting a prominent French pornography website is prompting actresses to disclose their own experiences of abuse, a moment of reckoning for an industry where speaking out has long been taboo. 800 words moved by Nicolas Kienast and Caroline Taix Britain-politics-Conservatives LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces mounting unease from his Conservative rank and file over the coronavirus pandemic as the party opens its annual conference on Saturday in a quieter virtual format. 675 words 0300 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. File picture Health-virus-Netherlands-masks, FOCUS -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-blast-culture-arts-politics,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanese stained glass artist Maya Husseini had hoped to retire after decades spent designing colourful windows, but she has been flooded with work since the blast that ripped through Beirut. 650 words 0300 GMT by Alice Hackman. Picture. Video Algeria-politics-referendum,FOCUS ALGIERS Algeria is readying for a constitutional referendum that the establishment says will usher in a "New Republic" and boost freedoms, but the opposition dismisses it as window-dressing by a repressive regime. 700 words 0300 GMT by Amal Belalloufi. File picture. Algeria-US-diplomacy,WRAP ALGIERS US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds talks in Algeria on renewing a strategic alliance as the North African state tries to mediate in war-ravaged Libya and Mali while battling extremists at home. 650 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume with Philippe Agret in Tunis -- AFRICA -- Sudan-conflict-peace,ADVANCER KHARTOUM Sudan's government and rebels are to sign a landmark peace deal Saturday in a bid to end decades of war in which hundreds of thousands died -- a historic achievement, if it holds. 700 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali afp
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