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| - Duty Editor: Alex Nicoll Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Clashes in Belarus after 'rigged' election + Lebanon protests build after deadly blast + Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested + US cabinet member to meet Taiwan's leader + US passes five million coronavirus cases Belarus-vote,WRAP MINSK Police in Belarus break up crowds of protesters with stun grenades and rubber bullets as longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko looks set to declare an overwhelming victory in a presidential poll his opponents say was rigged. 750 words 0200 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Also moved: Belarus-vote-Lukashenko,PROFILE Belarus-vote,FACTS Belarus-politics-vote-Tikhanovskaya,PROFILE Lebanon-blast,WRAP BEIRUT Two members of Lebanon's government quit over a deadly blast that unleashed public rage against the country's ruling class, as protesters and police fight running battles in the capital for a second day. 800 words 0230 GMT by Tony Gamal-Gabriel. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, one of the city's most vocal Beijing critics, is arrested under a new national security law for colluding with foreign forces, deepening a crackdown on democracy supporters. 550 words 0200 GMT by Jerome Taylor Taiwan-US-China-politics-diplomacy TAIPEI A US cabinet member is due to meet Taiwan's leader during the highest level visit from the United States since it switched diplomatic recognition to China in 1979, a trip that Beijing has condemned. 500 words 0300 GMT by Amber Wang. Picture. Video Also moving: Taiwan-China-US-politics-military,FACTS Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States shoots past the extraordinary milestone of five million coronavirus cases as President Donald Trump is accused of flouting the constitution by unilaterally extending a virus relief package. 750 words 0200 GMT by Brian Knowlton. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-health-virus-Hollywood-nightlife,FOCUS LOS ANGELES With Los Angeles nightclubs closed, party promoters have turned to mansions in the Hollywood hills to throw lavish, raucous and sometimes deadly gatherings that have enraged neighbors and local officials. 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video US-Poland-Czech-Slovenia-Austria-diplomacy,ADVANCER WASHINGTON As President Donald Trump orders US troops out of Germany and faces a tough re-election battle, his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, is heading to friendly climes in Central and Eastern Europe. 600 words moved by Shaun Tandon Mexico-crime-drugs-media,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Mexican journalist Julio Cesar Zubillaga shudders when his young daughter asks him why "they" want to kill him. He spoke up after a fellow reporter's murder and quickly felt the consequences: death threats and a gun attack on the office where his paper is printed. 600 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. File picture Health-virus-Peru-indigenous-oil,2ndlead LIMA Peruvian indigenous people angry over the pandemic and armed with spears assault a settlement for oil workers deep in the Amazon, triggering a clash with police that left three natives dead. 500 words moved US-economy-agriculture-theft-drugs,FOCUS STANLEY, Virginia When she planted hemp to make extra money for her family farm, Susan Corbett did not imagine thieves would find their way to her rural plot in Virginia to steal the plants. 700 words moved by Chris Stein. Picture. Video US-China-economy-agriculture-diplomacy,FOCUS NEW YORK Seven months after the United States and China signed a preliminary agreement to temper their trade war, Beijing's purchases of US agricultural goods have yet to reach the deal's target. 600 words moved by Daniel Hoffman -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG Tony Chung says he was walking through a mall when police from Hong Kong's new national security unit swooped, bundling him into a nearby stairwell and using his face to unlock his phone. 750 words 0330 GMT by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor. Picture -- AFRICA -- Niger-unrest-France,WRAP KOURE, Niger Gunmen on motorcycles kill eight people including a group of French aid workers as they visited a part of Niger popular with tourists for its wildlife, officials say. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Mauritius-environmental-pollution,shipping,WRAP PORT LOUIS A ship that ran aground off Mauritius leaking tonnes of oil into the ocean is cracking, the prime minister says, threatening an even greater ecological and economic disaster for the island nation. 700 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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