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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Top oil producers agree output cut, boosting prices + Johnson leaves hospital, says doctors saved his life + Pope livestreams Easter prayers for virus victims + Formula One racing legend Stirling Moss dead at 90 Health-virus-OPEC-oil,WRAP VIENNA Top oil-producing countries agree on historic output cuts to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war. 600 words 0130 GMT by Julia Zappei. File picture Health-virus,WRAP LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves hospital and thanks medics for saving his life, as hundreds of millions of Christians mark Easter under lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. 750 words 0330 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video Health-virus-Easter VATICAN CITY Pope Francis prays for coronavirus victims in an unprecedented livestream Easter Sunday message delivered from a hauntingly empty Vatican to a world under lockdown. 950 words 0130 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,WRAP LONDON Motor racing great Stirling Moss, widely regarded as the best driver never to win a world championship, dies at 90 following a long illness. 650 words moved. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,OBIT Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,REAX -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US,2ndlead WASHINGTON The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert says, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic is peaking. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Laura Bonilla in New York. Picture US-earnings-health-virus,ADVANCER NEW YORK The month of March opened with US unemployment near a 50-year low and concluded with countless companies turning to Washington for help as the coronavirus ravaged the economy. 650 words 0130 GMT by Luc Olinga Health-virus-UN-politics-diplomacy-offbeat,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS The usually buttoned-down world of the United Nations is having an unruly April as it copes with the global coronavirus pandemic in a city that is suffering terribly from it. 500 words 0130 GMT by Philippe Rater -- ASIA -- SKorea-NKorea-politics-vote-rights,INTERVIEW SEOUL The crippled crutch-wielding North Korean highlighted by Donald Trump in his 2018 State of the Union address is seeking a seat of his own in South Korea's parliament to defend defectors like him, who often find themselves marginalised. 700 words 0330 GMT by Sunghee Hwang. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his personal battle with the coronavirus "could have gone either way" and said there was "no question" doctors saved his life, speaking in a candid video message after leaving hospital. 700 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture. File video Health-virus-France-Macron PARIS President Emmanuel Macron is expected to warn France its lockdown to combat the coronavirus must go on for several more weeks at least, while also outlining how the country will recover from the crisis. 400 words 0230 GMT. File picture -- MIDEAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Syria-conflict,FOCUS PARIS As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. 750 words 0300 GMT by Didier Lauras. File picture Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's president rejects parliament speaker Benny Gantz's request for more time to form a government, a task that could now fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 600 words moved by Ben Simon Iran-US-banking-sanction-Luxembourg TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the country has won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. 400 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Saudi-economy-tourism,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia has quarantined thousands of people in hotels, some in luxury suites, to combat COVID-19, throwing a temporary lifeline to an industry struggling just months after tourist visas were launched. 750 words 0300 GMT by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Taiwan-sport-baseball-virus-health TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan swings into a new baseball season -- with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands -- as the island bucks the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus. 400 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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