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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar limits access to Facebook after coup + Top Republican refuses to punish QAnon backer + Netflix's 'Mank' tops Globes nominations + First double hand, face transplant in US + Covid halts play at Australian warm-ups Myanmar-politics,WRAP YANGON Myanmar restricts access to messaging and news platform Facebook days after the army seized power in a coup, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warns the world must ensure the military takeover fails. 700 words 0200 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-Republicans-Greene,lead WASHINGTON The top US House Republican refuses to punish QAnon-backing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, snubbing a growing chorus of calls to remove the controversial lawmaker from two committees over her incendiary rhetoric. 500 words moved. Picture Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes,WRAP LOS ANGELES Netflix's "Mank," a black-and-white drama that dives into Hollywood's Golden Age with the making of "Citizen Kane," tops the nominations for the pandemic-delayed Golden Globes, as female directors finally break through with multiple nods. 750 word moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes-nominees,FACTS US-health-face-hands-transplant WASHINGTON A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world's first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announces. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed Tennis-AUS-Open-health-virus,lead MELBOURNE Play is halted in six Australian Open tennis warm-up events and hundreds of players and officials isolate after a Covid-positive case at a tournament hotel, causing fresh problems for the coronavirus-delayed first Grand Slam of the year. 500 words at 0300 by Martin Parry. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-youth,FOCUS HONG KONG Myanmar's coup has left the country's younger generation bunkered down at home, obsessively tracking arrest rumours on social media, and weighing whether to defy the military on the streets. 650 words 0300 GMT by Sean Gleeson and Laignee Barron HongKong-China-politics-Canada-Britain-US,FOCUS HONG KONG Canada, Britain and the United States express alarm after Hong Kong forced a dual citizen to decide on one nationality, enforcing what they said was a little-used regulation for the first time in decades. 700 words 0330 GMT by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor -- AMERICAS -- US-Russia-nuclear-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's administration extends the New START nuclear treaty with Russia by five years, saying it hoped to prevent an arms race despite rising tensions with Moscow including over its imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 750 words moved by Shaun Tandon US-politics-Biden-wife,FOCUS WASHINGTON The backdrop of flowers, teapot and US flag said it all: Jill Biden will be no Melania Trump as America's new first lady. 650 words 0200 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture US-IT-Amazon-Bezos-wealth,FOCUS WASHINGTON Bill Gates set out to heal the world. His Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought sports teams. Ted Turner raced yachts. And Donald Trump went into politics. Jeff Bezos, the latest corporate titan to step away from his day job, plans to build rockets and save the planet. 600 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture Health-virus-Brazil-economy-poverty,FOCUS SAO PAULO, Brazil The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has hit especially hard in Brazil's favelas, but the country's 10 biggest slums now have a plan to fight back: they are launching their own bank. 650 words 0230 by Florence Goisnard. Picture. Video. US-music-politics-health-Parton,FOCUS WASHINGTON Dolly Parton may have twice turned down Donald Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom, but the ageless queen of country has multiple irons in the fire including an ad appearance during Sunday's Super Bowl. 500 words 0230 GMT by Michael Mathes. File picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa-vaccine-scepticism,FOCUS DAKAR Conspiracy theories, mistrust and patchy communication have contributed to a flourishing of scepticism about Covid-19 vaccines in African countries, experts say, posing potential dangers to future immunisation campaigns. 850 words 0300 GMT by Emmet Livingstone with AFP Africa bureaus CAfrica-unrest,lead BANGUI Forces loyal to the Central African Republic government have retaken a key town from rebels, the country's prime minister says, as the UN said peacekeepers would maintain a "robust" posture. 400 words moved SAfrica-animal-conservation,SCENE CAPE TOWN Sardines, sardines... and more sardines! Hundreds of baby cormorants left starving and abandoned by their parents at Cape Town's Robben Island get some tender loving care at an animal shelter. 500 words moved by Tanya Steenkamp. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Belgium-Iran-trial-attack-France ANTWERP, Belgium A Belgian court is set to return a verdict in the trial of an Iranian diplomat accused of plotting a bomb attack against opposition activists meeting in France. 450 words 0300 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere Russia-EU-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,FOCUS BRUSSELS EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell jets to Moscow under pressure to confront the Kremlin over the jailing of Alexei Navalny and a crackdown on protesters. 700 words 0230 GMT by Max Delany and Christian Spillman. Picture Already moved: Russia-politics-protests-Navalny,WRAP Russia-politics-protests-Navalny-Poland-Walesa,INTERVIEW ICC-Uganda-warcrimes-Ongwen-LRA,WRAP THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court hands down its verdict on a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord's Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 700 words 0300 GMT by Danny Kemp and Grace Matsiko -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics-security-Ibrahim,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanon's spy chief Abbas Ibrahim has emerged as a master deal-broker, from securing the return of hostages and prisoners held abroad to mediating seemingly intractable political feuds at home. 800 words moved. File picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-Liverpool-Brighton,WRAP LIVERPOOL, England Brighton condemn Liverpool to their second straight Premier League home defeat, winning 1-0 to leave the champions with a mountain to climb if they are going to retain their title. 650 words moved. Picture afp
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