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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + UN launches global virus vaccine push + Trump under fire over disinfectant idea + Muslims mark Ramadan under lockdown + US' Georgia gambles on limited reopening + 'Ghost Town': Stones release new track Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The United Nations calls for a global push to speed up production of a vaccine for the new coronavirus as US President Donald Trump comes under fire for suggesting injecting patients with disinfectant as a cure. 950 words 1500 GMT by Nina Larson and Robin Millard with Anuj Chopra in Riyadh and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live Video Health-virus-Trump-disinfectant PARIS Experts dismiss as reckless and irresponsible US President Donald Trump's suggestion of injecting disinfectant to treat patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. 400 words moved Health-virus-Islam-Ramadan RIYADH Mosques stand empty and fast-breaking feasts are cancelled as Muslims around the world begin marking Ramadan under coronavirus lockdown, while a pushback in some countries sparks fears of a surge in infections. 800 words 1600 GMT by Anuj Chopra with Haeril Halim in Jakarta. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Palestinians-Ramadan,FOCUS Health-virus-US ATLANTA, Georgia The US state of Georgia takes a gamble as it lets businesses like gyms and hair salons reopen to ease a painful coronavirus lockdown, a move even President Donald Trump fears is too soon as the nationwide death toll soars to 50,000. 700 words 1600 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-Britain-music-virus-RollingStones-pandemic NEW YORK The Rolling Stones release their first new original music since 2012, a single aptly named "Living in a Ghost Town." 450 words moved -- RACE FOR VIRUS VACCINE -- Health-virus-drugs-remdesivir,lead NEW YORK The experimental coronavirus treatment remdesivir has failed in its first randomized clinical trial, inadvertently released results show, dampening expectations for the closely watched drug. 550 words moved by Luc Olinga Health-virus-Gavi-vaccine GENEVA The race is on to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 but it is not certain that one can be found, the head of the global vaccines alliance says 500 words moved by Robin Millard Health-virus-China-vaccines BEIJING A novel coronavirus vaccine has for the first time "largely protected" monkeys from infection during an animal trial, data from a Chinese pharmaceutical giant shows. 550 words moved Health-virus-sunlight,FOCUS WASHINGTON Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus? A White House presentation on a mysterious government study claims so -- but scientists have called for more proof. 600 words 1700 GMT by Issam Ahmed -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics-Trump,FOCUS WASHINGTON Top White House coronavirus advisor Deborah Birx shrank in horror and around the nation comedians sharpened their pens: President Donald Trump, musing on the possibility of injecting virus victims with disinfectant, was off on another of his bizarre medical forays. 600 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture. File video Health-virus-US-SouthDakota-business,FOCUS RAPID CITY, South Dakota Jessica Wise has never been so busy since she and her sister started their tanning salon in South Dakota, one of the few American states not under pandemic lockdown. 600 words 1530 GMT by Sebastien Duval. Picture. -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict-Germany-warcrimes,WRAP KOBLENZ, Germany The main defendant in the first trial worldwide on state-sponsored torture in Syria had sought police protection in Germany because he felt threatened by Bashar al-Assad's intelligence service which he was once part of, a German court hears. 600 words 1500 GMT by Yannick Pasquet. Picture Germany-Iraq-conflict-trial-warcrime,WRAP FRANKFURT A man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State (IS) group goes on trial in Germany accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave. 650 words moved by Annalena Doerner. Picture. Video Health-virus-Gulf-labour-rights,FOCUS ABU DHABI After all nine men in his dormitory caught the coronavirus, 27-year-old Nurudhin was bussed to a remote quarantine camp -- becoming one of many migrant workers in Gulf states who are struggling to manage. 750 words moved. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier deplored a lack of progress in the latest round of post-Brexit trade talks, accusing Britain of stalling negotiations 600 words 1630 GMT by Alex Pigman with Phil Hazlewood in London Health-virus-Germany,FOCUS FRANKFURT Left empty as the coronavirus pandemic forced events to be cancelled, Berlin's exhibition centre Messe is getting a makeover with the help of German soldiers -- to reemerge as a hospital in a few weeks' time. 650 words moved by Yann Schreiber. Picture. Video Health-virus-Russia-Chechnya,FOCUS MOSCOW Elena Milashina has received death threats before, but never so brazen as when Chechnya's strongman leader put out an open call for violence because of her journalism about the coronavirus. 770 words moved by Jonathan Brown. File Picture. Video Ukraine-Georgia-politics,lead KIEV Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says he wants to help steer Ukraine through an economic crisis as new deputy prime minister but his plans spark controversy both in Kiev and Tbilisi. 500 words 1500 GMT by Ania Tsoukanova. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa,PROFILE DAKAR A cast of obscure health and government officials across Africa have been propelled into the public eye amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some are social-media savvy newcomers, others veterans of the fight against AIDS and Ebola. 750 words 1530 GMT by Emmet Livingstone. Picture Health-virus-Liberia,FOCUS MONROVIA It's just four years since a devastating Ebola outbreak killed over 4,800 in Liberia. Now facing a coronavirus outbreak, doctors in the West African country are confident their past experience gives them an edge in fighting the virus. 800 words moved by Zoom Dosso. Video. File picture Health-virus-SAfrica-drugs,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG South Africa's coronavirus lockdown has opened a window of opportunity for homeless substance users as methadone programs are rolled out in shelters. 800 words moved by Sofia Christensen. Pictures. Video Health-virus-Djibouti,FOCUS DJIBOUTI Djibouti has seen a rapid spike in coronavirus cases, with the Horn of Africa nation now recording the highest prevalence on the continent as the population largely ignores measures imposed by authorities. 800 words moved. File picture -- ASIA -- China-rights,INTERVIEW BEIJING Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang says he is drained after years in jail but ready to fight to be allowed to travel to Beijing to see his family as authorities keep him confined in a distant province. 650 words moved by Laurie Chen. Picture. Video Nepal-quake-anniversary BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL It has been five years since an earthquake devastated Nepal, but Krishna Maya Khadka is still struggling to come to terms with losing her husband and the home she lived in for generations. 600 words moved by Paavan Mathema. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Health-virus-Russia-economy-bank,2ndlead MOSCOW Russia's Central Bank says the economy will shrink by four to six percent this year, as hopes of a revival are dashed by the coronavirus and falling oil prices. 500 words moved -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Asia-CHN-stadium-economy-construction,FOCUS SHANGHAI China is in the throes of a multibillion-dollar splurge on new football stadiums, ramping up ambitions to be a superpower in the sport and host a World Cup as early as 2030. 700 words moved by Peter Stebbings. Picture -- LIFESTYLE/ENTERTAINMENT -- Health-virus-France-food-restaurants,FOCUS PARIS As top French chefs plead for restaurants to be allowed to open again, others are using the lockdown to reinvent post-COVID-19 haute cuisine. 700 words 1600 GMT by Olga Nedbaeva and Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. File picture Health-virus-world-essentials,FOCUS BAGHDAD In the US it was toilet paper, in Mexico it's beer and in France, flour. The goods missing from stores reveal how the world is coping with coronavirus lockdowns. 800 words moved by Haider Husseini with AFP bureaus. Picture Health-virus-Entertainment-US-Netflix,FOCUS LOS ANGELES While coronavirus has brought Hollywood to a halt, Netflix has enjoyed record success. But will the streaming giant's well-stocked slate of future shows be enough to maintain that growth? 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal.
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