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| - Duty Editor: Ben Sheppard Email: washengdesk@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Belarus forces flight carrying activist to land in Minsk + Italy cable car disaster kills 14 + Lava stops short of DR Congo's Goma + UN appeal on Israel-Gaza + Eurovision winner's drugs test Belarus-politics-arrest,WRAP MINSK Belarus forces an Athens-to-Vilnius Ryanair flight carrying a wanted opposition activist to divert and land in Minsk, provoking a furious outcry from European leaders. 500 words 1930 GMT. Picture. Graphic Italy-accident-cablecar,WRAP ROME Fourteen people are killed including a nine-year-old child after a cable car crashes on the side of a mountain in northern Italy. 500 words 2000 GMT. Picture DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo A river of boiling lava comes to a halt on the outskirts of Goma city, eastern DR Congo, after the night-time eruption of Mount Nyiragongo sends thousands of terrified residents fleeing in panic. 850 words 2000 GMT by Justin Katimwa. Picture. Graphic. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories A UN official calls for a 'genuine political process' to avert further bloodshed, after a military conflict between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas ravages the Palestinian enclave. 850 words 2000 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee with Daniella Cheslow in Jerusalem. Picture. Graphic. Video Entertainment-music-Eurovision-Italy-drugs,WRAP THE HAGUE The singer for Italy's Eurovision Song Contest winning rockers Maneskin will take a voluntary drug test after denying speculation that he was snorting cocaine during the broadcast. 500 words moved by Danny Kemp -- SPOTLIGHT -- US-animal-rats-health-virus,SCENE NEW YORK Late on a Friday night, eight dog enthusiasts and their pet pooches prowl dark alleys in New York's Lower East Side with one mission: to hunt and kill as many rats as possible. 800 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Iran-nuclear-US-EU,lead WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that it remains unclear whether Iran is "ready and willing" to take the necessary steps to return to compliance with the multination nuclear agreement. 500 words moved US-justice-race-Floyd,FOCUS WASHINGTON "Day of Enlightenment." That's how the George Floyd Memorial Center wants to commemorate May 25, the anniversary of the 46-year-old Black man's death under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. File Picture Also moved: US-justice-race-Floyd-family US-enterprises-corporate-meeting-racism-wage,FOCUS US-minorities-language-deaf-IT,FOCUS WASHINGTON "English is not my first language," writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language. 700 words moved by Louis Baudoin. Picture. Health-virus-US-NewYork-leisure,FOCUS NEW YORK After 14 months of lockdown and restrictions, New Yorkers can now enjoy a city where most of these limitations have been lifted. But they are hesitant about partying and returning to the social life they enjoyed "before." 750 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India-economy-startups,FOCUS MUMBAI After dealing with two coronavirus funerals in two weeks, Raj Sharma was too grief-stricken to negotiate a third with profiteering hearse drivers and crematoriums, so he turned to one of the many new businesses that have sprung up around India helping struggling people while also turning a tidy profit. 700 words moved by Nivrita Ganguly. Picture Health-virus-Bangladesh DHAKA A leading Bangladesh reporter critical of the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic is released on bail vows to "continue my journalism", after her detention sparked days of nationwide protests. 400 words moved. Picture. -- EUROPE -- Turkey-media-politics ISTANBUL Media rights groups urge Turkish authorities to investigate explosive allegations by a mafia boss about the high-profile killings of two journalists in the 1990s. 550 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-books,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories It was the place to go for books in the Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European classics. But last Tuesday, its owner watched in disbelief as the bookshop was reduced to rubble. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-children,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories A ceasefire has ended Israeli air raids on Gaza but experts warn that children in the besieged enclave will likely carry the mental scars for years to come. 800 words moved by Sakher Abou el Oun. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-coup YANGON Dozens of Myanmar security force members are killed, rebel fighters said, after heavy fighting in the coup-hit country's eastern fringe. 500 words moved. File picture China-disaster-race,WRAP BEIJING Twenty-one people are killed after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a cross-country mountain race in China, state media says. 750 words moved. Picture. Video Wrestling-IND-Oly-crime-Kumar NEW DELHI Two-time Olympic wrestling medallist Sushil Kumar is arrested, Indian police say, after a week-long manhunt over the alleged murder of a fellow athlete. 200 words moved. Picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Liverpool and Chelsea seize the final two Champions League places in a dramatic end to the Premier League season, leaving Leicester heartbroken for the second consecutive campaign. 650 words 2030 GMT by John Weaver. Picture Auto-Prix-MON,WRAP MONTE CARLO Max Verstappen capitalises on Ferrari pole-sitter Charles Leclerc's cruel last-minute withdrawal to win the Monaco Grand Prix and go top of the drivers' world championship for the first time. 600 words moved. Picture afp
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