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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 14041 4636 -- TOP STORIES -- + Postal voting kicks off US election + Trump says has no proof Navalny poisoned + WHO slashes hopes for quick-fix vaccine + Man livestreams death in euthanasia case + Messi still missing at training US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON The US election is officially open: North Carolina launches vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, which is getting uglier by the hour. 700 words moved by Jerome Cartillier with Michael Mathes in Wilmington, Delaware. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Trump,SCENE Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment Russia-politics-Navalny-US,WRAP MOSCOW Russia defies threats of new Western sanctions over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as US President Donald Trump says he has seen no proof that the Kremlin critic was a victim of Moscow's Novichok nerve agent programme. 600 words moved by Anna Smolchenko. File picture. File video. Graphic Also moved: Britain-Russia-politics-Navalny-Salisbury,FOCUS Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The World Health Organization says it does not expect widespread immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021, despite growing expectations in the US and beyond that a vaccine could be released within weeks. 700 words moved by Nina Larson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS France-death-rights,WRAP DIJON, France A Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition who plans to livestream his death on social media says he is refusing all food, drink and medicine, after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia. 450 words moved by Loic Vennin. File picture. File video Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Messi,WRAP MADRID Lionel Messi pledges to stay at Barcelona but only because the club's president Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his word to let him leave. 700 words at 0915 GMT by Thomas Allnutt. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Messi-stay,FOCUS Also moved: Fbl-ARG-ESP-Barcelona-Messi,FOCUS -- EUROPE -- Kosovo-Serbia-US-politics-peace,WRAP WASHINGTON Former foes Kosovo and Serbia agree to normalize economic relations in a US-brokered deal that the administration of President Donald Trump is touting as a major diplomatic success. 650 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-politics-Berlusconi,WRAP MILAN Italy's flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest high-profile figure to contract the disease. 700 words moved by Celine Cornu. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-politics-Berlusconi,PROFILE Health-virus-Ireland-pubs,FOCUS DUNMORE, Ireland The lengthy coronavirus shutdown of pubs in Ireland has hit the people of Dunmore particularly hard, with Guinness glasses gathering dust and kegs stacked dormant. 750 words moved by Joe Stenson. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-media-misinformation,FOCUS WASHINGTON Negative campaigning has long been a fixture in American politics, but the open use of digitally-altered images by Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team is unprecedented and has tech giants worried. 750 words moved by Ian Timberlake and Arthur MacMillan. Picture US-vote-offbeat WASHINGTON With less than two months until the US elections, the race for the White House -- long pushed to the margins by the coronavirus pandemic -- has finally taken off: here is AFP's list of the week's offbeat campaign moments. 650 words moved US-racism-unrest-Portland,FOCUS PORTLAND, Oregon One was a far-right activist, the other a member of the far-left Antifa movement. Both men paid with their lives after getting drawn into the anti-racism demonstrations that have shaken the US for the last three months. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. File picture Also moved: US-politics-farright-IT,WRAP US-racism-unrest-Portland,Q&A -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-army-coup-politics,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's military junta will hold meetings Saturday to discuss the promised transition to civilian rule after mounting pressure from neighbours to yield power in the weeks since it overthrew the nation's leader. 600 words moved. Picture. Video - ASIA -- SriLanka-India-tanker-accident-energy,WRAP COLOMBO A fire-stricken oil tanker is towed away from Sri Lanka's coast and into deeper waters, rescuers say, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour operation. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Messi-stay,FOCUS MADRID Lionel Messi is staying at Barcelona but the nature of his announcement -- he made clear he still wants to leave but said he did not want to face the club where he has spent his entire career in court -- begs the question of how long the marriage gone sour can last. 700 words 0930 GMT by Thomas Allnutt. File picture. Video. Graphic Fbl-ARG-ESP-Barcelona-Messi,FOCUS ROSARIO, Argentina Rosario had dared to dream Lionel Messi might return to his hometown club but was left disappointed after the Argentine city's most celebrated son announced he was staying at Barcelona. 550 words moved by Jorgelina Hiba. Picture. Video Tennis-Open-USA,WRAP NEW YORK Novak Djokovic sails into the last 16 of the US Open as off-court intrigue forces the delay of a men's singles match over issues linked to coronavirus. 700 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Graphic afp
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