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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + US, Europe battle surge in virus cases + US lawmakers vote on making Washington DC 51st state + Australian MP raided over alleged China links + Amazon revs up drive for autonomous taxis + Will streaming be theatre's death or saviour? Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States and Europe battle a resurgence of coronavirus cases as warnings mount worldwide over lifting lockdowns too soon. 750 words 1500 GMT by Issam Ahmed with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-politics-Congress-Washington-statehood,WRAP WASHINGTON US House lawmakers prepare to take a historic step by voting to make Washington DC the nation's 51st state, but the move, a push for voting rights for the capital's residents, is doomed in the Senate. 500 words 1600 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Australia-China-security-espionage-politics,WRAP SYDNEY Australia's spy agency raids a lawmaker's home as they probe alleged Chinese influence operations, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison warning action needs to be taken against foreign interference. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty US-IT-lifestyle-auto-Amazon-Zoox,WRAP WASHINGTON Amazon revs up the drive to develop autonomous taxis with a deal for California tech startup Zoox, putting it on course to compete with the likes of former Google car unit Waymo. 500 words 1500 GMT by Rob Lever Health-virus-theatre-streaming,FOCUS PARIS Locked down theatres and opera houses are getting millions of viewers from streaming performances, but are they cutting their own throats? 650 words 1100 GMT by Fiachra Gibbons and Rana Moussaoui. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON As cases surge, the White House coronavirus task force is set to hold its first public briefing in almost two months, where it may unveil a new strategy of testing groups of people together. 450 words 1500 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video Health-virus-WHO-vaccine,lead GENEVA The World Health Organization says a global initiative to speed up the development and production of COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments needs more than $30 billion over the next 12 months. 550 words 1500 GMT by Nina Larson. Video Health-virus-Israel-technology,FOCUS TEL AVIV Israel's armoury in the battle against the novel coronavirus includes thermal cameras scanning crowds and algorithms trawling vast medical databanks for real-time indicators of an infection spike. 850 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Health-virus-ASEAN-summit-Vietnam,lead HANOI Vietnam warns the virus pandemic has swept away years of economic gains as Southeast Asian leaders meet online for a summit that will also be dominated by anxiety over Beijing's moves in the flashpoint South China Sea. 650 words 1430 GMT by Tran Thi Minh Ha and Martin Abbugao in Singapore. Picture. Video Health-virus-Australia-Melbourne,2ndlead MELBOURNE Supermarkets impose purchase limits on toilet paper across Australia following panic buying by people rattled over a surge in coronavirus cases in the country's second-biggest city. 450 words moved Health-virus-Brazil-religion,PROFILE MANAUS, Brazil Brazilian pastor Izaias Nascimento is leading a double life: by day, he dons his protective suit to offer funeral services for poor families who have lost loved ones to COVID-19; by night, he gives Evangelical sermons in church members' homes, trying to help them get through the pandemic. 600 words 1700 GMT by Michael Dantas, with Valeria Pacheco in Brasilia. Picture. Video Health-virus-aviation-France-Orly,3rdlead PARIS Paris's Orly airport reopens after three months closure during the coronavirus pandemic, but traffic was thin and also briefly disrupted by climate protesters storming the runway. 500 words 1530 GMT by Sonia Wolf. Picture. Video. -- EUROPE -- Russia-court-theatre-fraud-politics,WRAP MOSCOW A Moscow court convicts acclaimed Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov of fraud, but hands him a suspended sentence after accusations his prosecution was politically motivated. 600 words 1500 GMT by Maria Panina. Picture. Video Kosovo-politics-warcrimes,WRAP TIRANA Kosovo President Hashim Thaci accuses international justice of "rewriting history" after he was charged with war crimes linked to the 1990s conflict with Serbia by special prosecutors in The Hague. 650 words 1500 GMT by Briseida Mema with Ismet Hajdari in Tirana. Picture. Video Russia-vote-constitution-social,FOCUS MOSCOW Ludmila Yudina, a retired speech therapist and supporter of Vladimir Putin, has been butting heads with her grandchildren over the Russian president's constitutional reforms. 550 words moved by Marina Lapenkova. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Burundi-politics-Nkurunziza-funeral, WRAP GITEGA Thousands of Burundians clad in white gather to say a final goodbye to former president Pierre Nkurunziza at a state funeral after his sudden death earlier this month. 650 words moved. Picture. Graphic. Video Madagascar-politics-history-independence,FOCUS ANTANANARIVO On the highest hill overlooking Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, on the site of a sacred pool and within the grounds of a royal palace, an uncanny piece of architecture is rising -- a concrete Roman-style amphitheatre. 600 words moved by Tsiresena Manjakahery Health-virus-SAfrica-disabled,SCENE JOHANNESBURG In a new world where people keep their distance and avoid contact with surfaces, a 60-year-old blind Zimbabwean immigrant in South Africa has been confined to a tiny room since the start of an anti-coronavirus lockdown three months ago, deprived of key navigation. 600 words moved by Sofia Christensen. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-Iran-US-rockets-raid,WRAP BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces interrogate pro-Iran fighters detained for planning a rocket attack in the first such raid in a country caught in the tug-of-war between Tehran and Washington. 800 words moved by Ammar Karim Yemen-conflict-health-virus-aid DUBAI Millions of children in war-torn Yemen could be pushed to "the brink of starvation" due to a lack of funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN children's agency says. 450 words moved Health-virus-Iraq-Kurds-tourism,FOCUS AL-AMADIYAH, Iraq In a normal year, Ahmed Hazem's mountainside restaurant would be teeming with tourists. But a nationwide curfew aimed at combatting the novel coronavirus has starved Iraq's Kurdish region of visitors. 650 words moved by Hamid Mohammed. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Japan-culture-education-ninja TOKYO Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents. 350 words moved. Picture. SEAsia-Thailand-crime-drugs-economy,FOCUS BANGKOK The downfall of meth syndicates cleaning tens of millions of dollars of drug money through Thai gold shops and construction firms has cast rare light on the staggering scale of narco profits -- and the ruses used to hide them. 700 words moved by Aidan Jones and Thanaporn Promyamyai -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Health-virus-ECB-EU-eurozone-economy,lead FRANKFURT The worst of the economic crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic is likely over, ECB chief Christine Lagarde says, warning however that the new normal will look different from what was before. 450 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick -- LIFESTYLE -- Health-virus-France-lifestyle-bistros,FOCUS PARIS The coronavirus pandemic took a terrible toll on an icon of French culture -- the corner bistro -- but it will survive, says chef and restaurateur Alain Fontaine. 650 words moved by Gina Doggett afp
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