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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Email: Engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar junta steps up crackdown on protesters + UK imposes tough new quarantine measures + Kosovo reformists set for landslide win + Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala to be first woman WTO head + Meghan Markle, Prince Harry expecting second child Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's junta deploys extra troops around the country and chokes the internet as it intensifies a crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again take to the streets 750 words 1000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Britain begins mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals from dozens of countries as New Zealand, so far largely spared by the pandemic, put its largest city into lockdown to contain its first outbreak of the highly contagious UK variant. 700 words 1200 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Kosovo-politics-vote,WRAP PRISTINA Kosovo's left-wing reformists are headed for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, initial results show, handing them a strong mandate for change from voters fed up with the political establishment. 750 words moved by Ismet Hajdari and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video WTO-trade-Nigeria,WRAP GENEVA Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala seems set to be confirmed as the first female and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start. 600 words moved by Robin Millard. File picture Britain-royals-baby,WRAP LONDON Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are expecting their second child, with the couple releasing a black-and-white image of them under a tree and confirming that "Archie is going to be a big brother". 500 words 1030 GMT. File Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Environment-corals-Israel-UAE-oil,FOCUS EILAT, Israel Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to "the next ecological disaster". 700 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video France-Britain-food-drink-gender,INTERVIEW PARIS In a business still dominated by men, French chef Helene Darroze credits a feminine, "emotional" touch for her unprecedented leap from three to five Michelin stars this year. 600 words moved by Anna Pelegri. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Britain LONDON The UK government introduces mandatory hotel quarantine rules for arrivals from dozens of countries deemed "high risk" for coronavirus variants, as it tries to stop new strains spreading. 650 words 1000 GMT by Joe Jackson. File Video, Picture Health-virus-US-vaccine-AfricanAmerican,FOCUS WASHINGTON Gary Jackson doesn't want the Covid vaccine even though the virus kills Black people at a starkly higher rate -- a daunting problem experts say the United States must confront in controlling its disastrous outbreak. 750 words moved by Joshua Melvin with Andrew Marszal in Los Angeles and Francois Picard in Houston. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-transport-taxis,SCENE NEW YORK They were omnipresent on the streets of New York day and night, as emblematic of the Big Apple as the Empire State Building or Yankees caps. But the pandemic has made yellow taxis scarce and facing an uncertain future. 700 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-vaccinations,SCENE CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode island Most countries are still only vaccinating the elderly and healthcare workers, but one US town hit hard by the coronavirus is already offering doses to everyone age 18 and over. 450 words moved by Lauren Owens Lambert and Joseph Prezioso Health-virus-Mexico-psychology,FOCUS MEXICO CITY A surge in coronavirus infections following the year-end holidays has left a growing number of Mexicans struggling with feelings of guilt or resentment over deaths that could have been avoided. 550 words moved by Sofia Miselem Health-virus-Peru-politics-vaccines,2ndlead LIMA Peru's foreign minister resigns in a growing scandal over the revelation that government officials received Covid-19 vaccinations well before the general public. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Spain-politics-Catalonia-vote,WRAP BARCELONA Catalan separatist parties boost their parliamentary majority in a regional election overshadowed by the pandemic and marked by record low turnout, more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque and Adria Laborda. Picture. Video Kosovo-politics-vote,PROFILE PRISTINA Albin Kurti has seen prison bars, led street riots and unleashed tear gas in parliament: now the unpredictable politician is set to become Kosovo's prime minister for a second time, after leading his left-wing party to a landslide win. 700 words 1100 GMT by Ismet Hajdari and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video France-politics-religion,FOCUS PARIS A remark by France's interior minister that far-right leader Marine Le Pen was showing "softness" on Islam highlighted the intensity of the battle for the right ahead of 2022 polls, as parliament prepares to pass a controversial law cracking down on radical Islamism. 650 words 1230 GMT by Anne Renaut and Stuart Williams -- AFRICA -- Guinea-health-virus-Ebola,WRAP CONAKRY West Africa faces its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016, with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an "epidemic". 650 words moved by Mouctar Ba with Philippe Siuberski in Dakar. File picture. Video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment,WRAP WASHINGTON After the Senate acquitted Donald Trump in a historic second impeachment trial, America weighs how long a shadow the former president will cast -- over his party, and over the country. 800 words moved by Brian Knowlton. File picture Haiti-politics-unrest PORT-AU-PRINCE Several thousand people demonstrate in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, saying the government was trying to establish a new dictatorship and denouncing international support for President Jovenel Moise. 400 words moved. Live video. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/MEDIA -- Australia-media-internet,2ndlead SYDNEY Google and Facebook are "very close" to deals with major Australian media to pay for news, a top government official says, as the tech giants scramble to avoid landmark regulation. 600 words moved -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open,WRAP MELBOURNE Rafael Nadal puts his old rival Fabio Fognini to the sword to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals and move within three wins of the all-time Grand Slam titles record. 550 words 1000 GMT. Picture Tennis-AUS-Open-Hsieh-McNamee,PROFILE MELBOURNE In an era of regimented game plans, strict training regimes, nutritionists and pre-match routines, one player is refreshingly going her own way - Hsieh Su-wei. 600 words moved afp
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