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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + China fetes Covid-19 successes as Europe suffers + Trump visits swing states to stem election slide + Cooperate on climate or face doom, says UN chief + Outrage over Xinjiang scenes in Disney's 'Mulan' + Woodpeckers wage war over high-value territories Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING China's leaders stage a triumphant ceremony to celebrate beating the coronavirus as billions of people around the world still suffer the fallout from the pandemic and the global death toll nears 900,000. Moved 650 words 2000 GMT by Helen Roxburgh with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-politics-vote,WRAP JUPITER, Florida President Donald Trump tours five swing states this week, starting with Florida and North Carolina, in hopes that promises of a quick coronavirus vaccine and booming economic recovery will right his floundering reelection campaign. 700 words 2030 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture Environment-climate-UN-health-virus-diplomacy-economy,INTERVIEW LONDON World powers must pull together and retool their economies for a green future or humanity is "doomed", UN chief Antonio Guterres warns, telling AFP that failure to control the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the danger of disunity. 1,000 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic Entertainment-film-Mulan-China-US-rights,FOCUS HONG KONG Disney's "Mulan" remake is facing fresh boycott calls after it emerged some of the blockbuster's scenes were filmed in China's Xinjiang, where widespread rights abuses against the region's Muslim population have been widely documented. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor Science-animal-behavior-woodpeckers-US,LEAD WASHINGTON Acorn woodpeckers wage battle royales that last days in order to win valuable territory vacated by deceased counterparts, according to a new study that used radio tags to track the warring birds. 600 words 1930 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-state,FACTS WASHINGTON The US election, eight weeks from Tuesday, is boiling down to a handful of battleground states that Joe Biden must flip in order to snatch the White House from President Donald Trump. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Graphic. Picture US-Lebanon-politics-corruption,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States slaps sanctions on two former Lebanese cabinet ministers over alleged corruption as it vows to weaken pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah amid political tumult. 500 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon with Alice Hackman in Beirut Health-virus-US-economy-politics-budget,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's chief of staff said he is optimistic that Republicans and Democrats in Congress will reach agreement on a new pandemic emergency aid bill before the November 3 election. 500 words 1930 GMT by Heather Scott -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain admits that it may break international law by rewriting parts of its Brexit divorce treaty relating to Northern Ireland, as a top legal adviser's resignation clouds the latest round of fraught EU talks. 750 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Authorities in Belarus tried to forcibly expel leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from the country but she tore up her passport in defiance and jumped out a car window to stay, her allies say. 700 words 1930 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-politics-unrest,FACTS -- MIDEAST -- Iran-politics-rights-Britain,WRAP TEHRAN Iran tells Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held in Tehran since 2016, she faces a new indictment, dampening her supporters' hopes she will be freed anytime soon by the Islamic republic. 550 words moved. File picture. File video Saudi-rights-politics-Khashoggi,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia seeks to turn the page on a journalist's murder with a final court ruling, but analysts say the damaging scandal that sparked global revulsion will continue to haunt the kingdom. 700 words 1930 GMT by Anuj Chopra. File picture Algeria-trial-media,WRAP ALGIERS An Algerian court is due to hear an appeal by journalist Khaled Drareni against a three-year jail term handed down in a case seen as a barometer of press freedoms in the North African country. 650 words moved by Farah Abada with Philippe Agret in Paris. Picture. Graphic. Video Lebanon-politics-Hezbollah,FOCUS BEIRUT When it comes to Lebanon, the US and France have similar outlooks, but a major difference centres on the Hezbollah movement. It is shunned by Washington but tolerated by a pragmatic leadership in Paris. 800 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal Syria-conflict-IS-Kurds,LEAD QAMISHLI, Syria Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Islamic State group out of an overcrowded camp in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official says. 400 words moved -- AFRICA -- Niger-unrest-conservation-giraffes,FOCUS KOUREMALE, Niger One of the most famous animal sanctuaries in the Sahel faces a troubled future after suspected jihadists murdered eight people, six of them young French aid workers. 700 words moved by Boureima Hama. Pictures. Graphic -- ASIA -- China-India-military-politics-conflict,WRAP BEIJING China and India accuse each other of firing shots first across a flashpoint Himalayan border, intensifying a months-long standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbours that has already claimed at least 20 lives. 500 words moved. Picture Australia-China-diplomacy-media,WRAP SYDNEY Two Australian journalists flee China under diplomatic protection amid rapidly deteriorating relations between Beijing and Canberra, as the United States warned that the situation for foreign reporters in the country could get worse. 600 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video Japan-politics-vote,WRAP TOKYO Japan's ruling party kicks off the race to pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successor, with his powerful right-hand man Yoshihide Suga commanding an all-but-insurmountable lead. 600 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Live video. Graphic Also moved: Japan-politics-Suga,PROFILE -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-environment-forests LONDON Trees that grow quickly die younger, risking a release of carbon dioxide that challenges forecasts that forests will continue to be a "sink" for planet-warming emissions, scientists say. 550 words moved -- SPORT -- Tennis-Open-FRA-Barty-health-virus,2ndlead SYDNEY World number one Ashleigh Barty announces she will not defend her French Open crown, citing the coronavirus fears that prompted her and several other top players to withdraw from this year's US Open. 500 words moved. File picture afp
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