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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Ultraconservative set to win Iranian election + Hong Kong pro-democracy media execs due in court + Palestinians cancel million vaccine deal with Israel + Swiss court jails Liberian warlord for 20 years + Scotland hold lacklustre England to goalless draw Iran-vote,WRAP TEHRAN Voting ends in Iran's presidential election in which ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to victory after all serious rivals were barred from running. 900 words moved by Frank Zeller and Ahmad Parhizi. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Iran-vote,SCENE Iran-vote,COUNTRYFACTFILE Iran-vote-history,CHRONO HongKong-China-politics-media,WRAP HONG KONG Two executives from Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily arrive at court to be charged with collusion over their newspaper's coverage after authorities deployed a sweeping security law to target a scathing critic of Beijing. 450 words 0400 GMT Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-conflict,3rdlead RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories The Palestinian Authority says it cancelled a swap deal that would have seen Israel provide it with one million Covid-19 jabs, as the doses are "about to expire". 550 words moved by Hossam Ezzedine with Claire Gounon in Jerusalem. Video Switzerland-Liberia-conflict-warcrimes-trial-verdict,WRAP GENEVA A former Liberian warlord is jailed for 20 years in Switzerland, becoming the first person from the country to be convicted of war crimes committed during the bloody conflict there a generation ago. 650 words moved by Nina Larson Also moved: Switzerland-Liberia-conflict-warcrimes,FACTS Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP LONDON Lacklustre England are denied an early ticket into the Euro 2020 last 16 as Scotland hold their historic rivals to a goalless draw while World Cup finalists Croatia face an uphill task to progress. 700 words moved by John Weaver. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- SAfrica-history-apartheid-jobs,FOCUS SOWETO, South Africa Thirty years ago South Africa's apartheid laws were formally struck down, bringing a dizzying jolt of hope to millions of disenfranchised citizens. Today that optimism has all but fizzled out -- particularly among the young. 600 words moved by Claire Doyen and Michelle Gumede. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Russia,WRAP MOSCOW New coronavirus infections hit a pandemic high in Moscow, tripling in just weeks due to the Delta variant and forcing Russia's capital to close its Euro fan zone and extend other curbs. 600 words moved by Antoine Lambroschini. File picture. File video Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-EU-court-AstraZeneca-Belgium,2ndlead BRUSSELS A Belgian court orders AstraZeneca to deliver 50 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to EU member states by September 27 -- far fewer than Brussels had demanded. 700 words moved by Dave Clark -- AMERICAS -- Canada-US-pornography-internet-lawsuit,WRAP MONTREAL The noose tightens around Pornhub as the adult video site is sued by 34 women who say they appeared without consent in footage showing rape, sexual abuse, revenge porn or images of them when they were minors. 600 words moved by Anne-Sophie Thill. File picture Peru-accident-mining LIMA A bus carrying miners plunges into a ravine on a mountain road in southern Peru, killing at least 27, their employer says. 300 words moved US-politics-racism-holiday,FOCUS WASHINGTON Public schools in Washington were closed, embassies shut down and US government employees got an unexpected day off on Friday after the sudden declaration of a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the United States. 600 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture -- ASIA -- Australia-China-diplomacy-trade-wine,2ndlead SYDNEY Australia is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of anti-dumping duties on Australian wine exports, the government announces. 450 words moved -- EUROPE -- Europe-migrants-Spain,WRAP MADRID At least four people have died, including a woman thought to be pregnant and a child, and another four are missing after a migrant boat overturned off Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, rescuers say. 550 words moved by Hazel Ward Armenia-vote,WRAP YEREVAN At least 20,000 supporters of Armenian opposition leader Robert Kocharyan rally in Yerevan, as candidates wrap up campaigning ahead of weekend polls called in a bid to end a political crisis. 650 words moved Mariam Harutyunyan and Ania Tsoukanova. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,WRAP ABIDJAN Ivory Coast has successfully negotiated a day big on risk after its former president Laurent Gbagbo returned home, but analysts say the high emotions underscore the need for national healing. 700 words moved by Stephane Barbier. Picture. Video -- HEALTH -- Health-colorectal-cancer-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON A new paper in the journal Cancer Discovery has identified specific patterns of DNA damage triggered by diets rich in red meat -- further implicating the food as a carcinogen while heralding the possibility of detecting the cancer early and designing new treatments. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- ENVIRONMENT -- Mexico-environment-nature-climate,FOCUS NAUCALPAN DE JUAREZ, Mexico Adriana Veliz whispers affectionately as she removes a colony of bees from inside a statue in a Mexican backyard -- part of her mission to help save them from extinction. 500 words 0130 GMT by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-POR-HUN-IRI-Daei-Ronaldo TEHRAN Iranian football great Ali Daei is ready for Cristiano Ronaldo to break his all-time international goalscoring record, perhaps during Euro 2020. 500 words moved by Amir Havasi and Ahmad Parhizi, with Emmanuel Barranguet in Bucharest. File picture afp
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