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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 6 4016 8343 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus deaths fall raising hope in worst-hit nations + Top oil producers agree cuts, prices bounce + NKorea defector Trump hailed seeks parliament seat in South + Millions watch Bocelli concert in empty Milan cathedral Health-virus,WRAP MADRID The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic slows in some of the worst-hit countries with Spain set to reopen parts of its economy as governments grapple with a once-in-a-century recession. 800 words 1130 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video Health-virus-OPEC-oil,WRAP VIENNA Top oil-producing countries agree on historic output cuts to shore up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war. 650 words moved by Julia Zappei. File picture SKorea-NKorea-politics-vote-rights,INTERVIEW SEOUL The crutch-wielding North Korean lauded by Donald Trump in a State of the Union address is seeking a seat of his own in the South's parliament to defend other defectors who have fled their reclusive homeland but often find themselves marginalised. 750 words moved by Sunghee Hwang. Video. Picture Health-virus-Italy-music-Easter MILAN Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a solo Easter concert from an empty Milan Cathedral streamed live to millions of people around the world in coronavirus lockdown. 250 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson recuperates at his countryside retreat after revealing that coronavirus could have killed him, but a big decision looms on whether to keep Britain in lockdown as the death toll soars. 500 words 1230 GMT by Alice Ritchie. File picture. File video. Health-virus-France-Macron PARIS President Emmanuel Macron is expected to warn France the lockdown to combat the coronavirus must go on for several more weeks at least, while also outlining how the country will recover from the crisis. 400 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US,2ndlead WASHINGTON The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert says, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic is peaking. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Laura Bonilla in New York. Picture Health-virus-US-Florida-Italy-Moldova,FOCUS MIAMI They have been traveling the world for four years on an ambitious trek that has taken them to 50 countries on five continents. 650 words moved by Leila Macor US-earnings-health-virus,ADVANCER NEW YORK The month of March opened with US unemployment near a 50-year low and concluded with countless companies turning to Washington for help as the coronavirus ravaged the economy. 650 words moved by Luc Olinga Health-virus-UN-politics-diplomacy-offbeat,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS The usually buttoned-down world of the United Nations is having an unruly April as it copes with the global coronavirus pandemic in a city that is suffering terribly from it. 500 words moved by Philippe Rater -- MIDEAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Syria-conflict,FOCUS PARIS As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. 750 words moved by Didier Lauras. File picture Iran-US-banking-sanction-Luxembourg TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the country has won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. 400 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Saudi-economy-tourism,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia has quarantined thousands of people in hotels, some in luxury suites, to combat COVID-19, throwing a temporary lifeline to an industry struggling just months after tourist visas were launched. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Health-virus-Fbl-Eur-pandemic,FOCUS PARIS A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic means that nobody can say with any certainty when the sport might return. 650 words moved by Andy Scott. File picture Health-virus-Oly-fbl-tennis-cricket-auto-prix,FOCUS PARIS Sport has not been immune from the coronavirus pandemic that has put much of the globe in lockdown -- and the deadly fallout from a Champions League game in Milan and the speed with which infection spread through elite cyclists in a race in the UAE raise worrying issues for the future. 850 words moved. File picture Taiwan-sport-baseball-virus-health TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan swings into a new baseball season -- with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands -- as the island bucks the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus. 400 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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