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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden in UK on first overseas tour as president + Myanmar's Suu Kyi hit with corruption charges + US to 'supercharge' Covid fight with vaccine donation + Navalny group vows to continue to fight corruption + Meatpacker JBS paid $11mn ransom' to hackers Britain-US-G7-NATO-US-Russia-Biden,WRAP CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom Joe Biden and Boris Johnson hold their first face-to-face meeting, during which they will lay the foundations for a new pact, despite Brexit and its consequences in Northern Ireland casting a shadow on the old "special relationship". 750 words 1000 GMT by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video. Graphic Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The Myanmar junta hits deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reports. 550 words moved. File Picture Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States will buy 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to distribute among poorer nations, the White House says, a huge donation to "supercharge" the pandemic fight with many parts of the world still struggling to contain the coronavirus. 650 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Russia-opposition-politics-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW The corruption-fighting group founded by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny vows to continue combating graft, hours after a Russian court branded the group extremist. 650 words 0930 GMT by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video Also moved: Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,CHRONO US-Brazil-cyber-attack-JBS,WRAP WASHINGTON JBS, one of the world's biggest meat processors, pays bitcoin worth $11 million in ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia. 500 words 0930 GMT -- SPOTLIGHT -- Myanmar-politics-military-coup-health,FOCUS YANGON Protesters shot during rallies against Myanmar's military regime are avoiding treatment for their wounds, fearing arrest if they visit junta-run hospitals and searching desperately for sympathetic doctors to operate on them in secret. 700 words moved. Picture US-Europe-Australia-crime-tech-police,FOCUS PARIS In convincing criminal networks to embrace a bogus encrypted messaging app, police relied on cutting-edge tech as well as an old-school trick -- an inside man tasked with winning the trust of a ruthless underworld. 600 words 1100 GMT by Didier Lauras -- EUROPE -- France-politics-Macron-slap,WRAP VALENCE, France A 28-year-old mediaeval martial arts enthusiast who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron risks up to three years in jail as he appears in court for the first time, having told investigators he acted "without thinking." 500 words 1200 GMT by Daniel Abelous. Picture Greece-strike-labour,WRAP ATHENS Thousands of demonstrators march in Athens and other Greek cities as a 24-hour nationwide strike against a new labour reform shuts down transport and public services. 400 words 1100 GMT by Will Vassilopoulos. Picture. Video Greece-Turkey-migrants-police-EU,FOCUS EVROS, Greece As the sun dips into the wetlands of northeastern Evros, Greece's river border with Turkey, two Greek guards climb into a boat to begin their daily lookout for migrants. 650 words moved by Vassilis Kyriakoulis. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-vote-economy,FOCUS TEHRAN When Iranians vote for a new president next week, they will do so in the depths of an economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions and worsened by the pandemic. 750 words moved by Marc Jourdier. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Iran-vote-candidates,FACTS Iran-vote-politics,CHRONO Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JENIN, Palestinian Territories Israeli special forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, sources on both sides say, in what Israeli security officials labelled a mission to arrest "terrorists". 500 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video Iran-rights-religion-Bahais,FOCUS PARIS The Bahai community in Iran is subjected to discrimination in every aspect of life, representatives say, but the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority is still determined to retain its presence. 900 words 1200 GMT by Stuart Williams Algeria-vote,ADVANCER TUNIS Algeria holds parliamentary elections Saturday under the shadow of a boycott by a protest movement and deep scepticism that the North African nation can exit political paralysis or economic crisis. 750 words moved by Philippe Agret. File picture. File video Also moved: Algeria-vote,COUNTRY FACTFILE Algeria-politics,CHRONO Health-virus-Lebanon-politics-corruption,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanon's cash-strapped leaders are bribing their base with free Covid jabs ahead of next year's elections, in what observers say is the latest variant on an old corruption trick. 850 words moved by Bachir El Khoury Health-virus-Jordan-tourism-animals,FOCUS PETRA, Jordan Herds of donkeys once carried hordes of tourists on the rocky paths of Jordan's ancient stone city of Petra, but visitor numbers crashed amid the pandemic and the loyal animals now face the chop. 550 words moved by Mussa Hattar. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Senegal-religion-monks-music,FOCUS KEUR MOUSSA, Senegal In a Senegalese abbey, Benedictine friars combine worship and music seven times a day, singing the glories of God to the sound of the kora -- the ancient 21-string instrument of West Africa. 600 words moved by Emmet Livingstone. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-Canada-oil-environment-politics-pipeline,WRAP NEW YORK Blocked by US President Joe Biden, Canada's TC Energy says it has officially terminated the Keystone XL Pipeline project, throwing in the towel on a controversial initiative opposed by environmental activists. 650 words moved. File picture US-China-IT-security,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden revokes executive orders from his predecessor Donald Trump seeking to ban Chinese-owned mobile apps TikTok and WeChat over national security concerns. 650 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture Peru-vote,WRAP LIMA Leftist Pedro Castillo holds a razor-thin lead in Peru's polarizing presidential election as his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori makes renewed allegations of voter fraud she claims involve half a million ballots. 750 words moved by Francisco Jara. Picture. Video. Graphic Colombia-protest BOGOTA Thousands of people take to the streets in several cities across Colombia in fresh protests against President Ivan Duque. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-plane-crash-toll,WRAP YANGON Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane crashed in a central region of the country Thursday, a spokesman for the junta said. 350 words moved. ETimor-US-crime-court-assault-religion,WRAP DILI A defrocked American priest accused of molesting girls for years at an East Timor shelter goes on trial in a case that has split the overwhelmingly Catholic country. 650 words moved by Zevonia Vieira, with Randy Mulyanto in Jakarta. Picture Japan-Taiwan-animal-environment-rhino TOKYO Like many of us, Emma has had her travel plans derailed by coronavirus. But after months of delay, the white rhino has arrived in Japan and is looking for love. 400 words moved. Picture. Video. File picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020,WRAP PARIS Euro 2020 finally kicks off on Friday as Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal prepare to defend their title a year after the tournament was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words 1330 GMT. Picture Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Maria Sakkari, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Barbora Krejcikova or Tamara Zidansek will continue the recent trend of new Grand Slam champions at this year's French Open after another tournament littered with surprises. 650 words 1300 GMT by Martyn Wood. Picture Tennis-FRA-Open-Djokovic PARIS Novak Djokovic says facing Rafael Nadal for the 58th time, with a place in the French Open final on the line, will be "a great battle" against his "biggest ever rival". 500 words moved -- HEALTH -- Women-health-illness PARIS "Doctors say you're hysterical"... Endometriosis is a chronic, incurable and potentially crippling disease affecting as many as one in 10 women worldwide, but only recently have doctors started to take is seriously. 800 words moved by Alexandra del Peral afp
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