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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie,taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar blocks Twitter as coup outrage grows + EU-Russia ties at 'low point' over Navalny + Yemen warring factions welcome Biden peace push + Libyans select surprise candidate for interim PM + Oscar-winning Christopher Plummer dead at 91 Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar loses access to Twitter, the latest move to stifle dissent as the military widens an internet ban following a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions. 800 words 2030 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Russia-politics-EU-diplomacy-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Russia expels diplomats from three European countries for taking part in protests in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, after the European Union said ties with Moscow had hit a new low. 700 words 2030 by Thibaut Marchand and Jonathan Brown. Picture. video Also moved: Russia-politics-Navalny,CHRONO Yemen-conflict,WRAP DUBAI Yemen's warring factions declare their readiness to act after US President Joe Biden called for renewed efforts to end their conflict, but experts say a real solution appears out of reach. 650 words 2000 GMT by Shatha Yaish. File picture. Video. File video Libya-conflict-politics-UN,WRAP GENEVA Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva make the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity government to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in December. 800 words 2000 GMT by Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli. Live video. File Picture Entertainment-Canada-US-film-Plummer,OBIT LOS ANGELES Veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, whose decades-long career featured a star turn in "The Sound of Music" and an Oscar win late in life, has died, his manager says. He was 91. 600 words 2100 GMT by Laurent Banguet with Janet McEvoy in Paris. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The World Health Organization calls on vaccine makers to dramatically boost production, as American president Joe Biden warns the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was pushing the United States towards "breaking point". 750 words 2000 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-LatAm-oxygen,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO As a second, deadly wave of Covid-19 has battered Latin America, images have emerged from country after country of desperate people lining up for days on end to buy oxygen, sometimes at exhorbitant prices, to ease the suffering of infected loved ones fighting for breath at home. 750 words 2000 GMT by Yemeli Ortega with AFP bureaus. Picture. File picture. File video Health-virus-SAfrica-corruption,lead JOHANNESBURG South African special investigators say that around $17 million in coronavirus funds was siphoned off last year through corruption, fraud and inflated prices for protective gear supplied to government hospitals and departments. 450 words moved. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-vaccines,Q&A Climate-health-virus-bats Health-virus-SAfrica-vaccines,FOCUS Health-virus-India,Q&A Health-virus-Saudi-India,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-economy-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden seizes on feeble US employment data to argue that the world's largest economy needs his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, which cleared a key Senate hurdle without support from the Republican opposition. 750 words 2100 GMT by Chris Stein US-Mideast-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Joe Biden is quickly if subtly rebalancing US priorities in the Middle East, inching back from his predecessor's militant support of Saudi Arabia and Israel as he seeks diplomacy with Iran. 650 words 2130 GMT by Shaun Tandon Myanmar-politics-US-technology,FACTCHECK WASHINGTON Supporters of Donald Trump have relentlessly spread the conspiracy theory that election technology companies rigged the US presidential vote against him -- a baseless claim American social media users are now adapting to Myanmar, where the military has seized power. 600 words 2100 GMT by Louis Baudoin Ecuador-politics-vote,PROFILE QUITO On the left: a young economist versus a feisty campaigner for indigenous rights. On the right, a sexagenarian former banker. These are the main contenders for Ecuador's presidency in elections Sunday. 500 words moved. File picture Also moved: Ecuador-politics-vote,COUNTRY FACTFILE -- EUROPE -- Russia-Belarus-politics-opposition,FOCUS MOSCOW For many in Russia, tactics used by demonstrators and police at recent protests in support of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, have brought to mind Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko has kept his grip on power despite tens of thousands taking to the streets. 800 words moved by Thibaut Marchand. Picture. Video Germany-crime-WWII-history-Nazi,WRAP BERLIN German prosecutors say they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a woman. 500 words moved by Deborah Cole. File picture -- MIDEAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-media-rights,WRAP CAIRO Egypt frees Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist working for Qatar's Al Jazeera television, after four years in jail without trial following the end last month of a rift between the two Arab states. 700 words moved by Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha. File Picture. File Video -- ASIA -- India-Kashmir-Pakistan-internet-unrest SRINIGAR, India An internet clampdown in Indian-administered Kashmir, described by rights groups as one of the world's longest, is set to end, authorities say just days after international criticism from celebrities over shutdowns in the national capital. 350 words 1930 GMT China-celebrity-entertainment-health BEIJING A Chinese actress goes viral on social media after posting a candid photos of her "nightmare" botched cosmetic surgery, which left part of her nose blackened with dead flesh. 400 words moved -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-China-economy-trade,WRAP WASHINGTON The US trade deficit surged in 2020, undercutting the prime "America First" focus of former president Donald Trump, although the gap with his nemesis China narrowed slightly. 550 words moved by Heather Scott SKorea-diplomacy-trade-WTO,WRAP GENEVA South Korea's trade minister abandons her bid to head the World Trade Organization, clearing a likely path for Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the body's first female and first African director-general. 650 words moved by Nina Larson Also moved: WTO-trade-diplomacy-Nigeria-politics,PROFILE -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-sexism-Mori,REAX TOKYO Criticism mounts over sexist remarks made by Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori, who has refused to step down and justified his comments by explaining he doesn't 'speak to women much.' 650 words by Kyoko Hasegawa and Andrew McKirdy moved. File picture Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The greatest quarterback in NFL history faces off with the pretender to his throne on Sunday when Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head-to-head in a Super Bowl clash of generations. 800 words moved by Rob Woollard. Picture Also moved: Amfoot-SuperBowl-NFL-women-Thomas afp
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