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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar generals restrict Facebook after coup + Top Republican refuses to punish QAnon backer + EU sends top envoy to Russia over Navalny + Olympic chief faces resignation calls over sexism + Covid halts play at Australian warm-ups Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's generals order internet providers to restrict access to Facebook, days after they seized power, as UN chief Antonio Guterres says the world must rally to ensure the military putsch fails. 750 words 1030 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. Video. Graphic Russia-EU-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW The outcry grows in Russia over the crackdown on peaceful protesters as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visits Moscow under pressure to confront the Kremlin over the imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. 650 words 1000 GMT by Anna Smolchenko with Max Delany in Brussels. Picture. Video. Graphic Oly-2020-2021-Mori-sexism,3rdlead TOKYO Japan's gaffe-prone Tokyo Olympics chief apologises for making sexist remarks that prompted outrage, but refuses to resign and digs a deeper hole by admitting he doesn't "speak to women much". 650 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video. Live video Also moving: Oly-2020-2021-Mori-sexism,PROFILE Tennis-AUS-Open-health-virus,WRAP MELBOURNE Australian Open chief Craig Tiley says he is "absolutely confident" the tournament will start next week despite a fresh coronavirus case that halted warm-up tournaments and forced hundreds of players and officials into isolation. 650 words moved by Martin Parry. Picture -- MYANMAR COUP -- Myanmar-politics-military,SCENE YANGON Clanging cymbals and banging pots, Yangon residents unhappy with a putsch that ousted Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun kicking up a nightly fracas to chase out evil spirits -- in this case, the military. 450 words moved. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-economy,FOCUS BANGKOK Foreign investors flocked to Myanmar as it began its democratic transition a decade ago, but this week's military coup is likely to accelerate a trend of Western withdrawal -- and China's expansion. 750 words moved by Lisa Martin and Sophie Deviller Myanmar-politics-army-youth,FOCUS HONG KONG Myanmar's coup has left its 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 moved by Sean Gleeson and Laignee Barron Myanmar-politics-army-youth,FOCUS HONG KONG Myanmar's coup has left its 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 moved by Sean Gleeson and Laignee Barron -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Britain-vaccines LONDON Oxford University announces it will launch a medical trial alternating doses of Covid-19 vaccines created by different manufacturers, the first study of its kind. 400 words moved Health-virus-Gulf DUBAI Gulf states ramp up restrictions to slow escalating coronavirus infections in a new challenge to the region's economic recovery after the double whammy of low oil prices and lockdown malaise in 2020. 600 words 1100 GMT 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 moved by Emmet Livingstone with AFP Africa bureaus Health-virus-SAfrica-nurses,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG "In the queue of dying, we are just waiting for our day": South African nurses battling the coronavirus pandemic are not only worn out by the surge in numbers of patients, but live in fear of contracting the virus and dying. 550 words 1200 GMT by Michelle Gumede. File picture -- AFRICA -- ICC-Uganda-warcrimes-Ongwen-LRA,WRAP THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court will hand down its verdict on a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord's Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 700 words 1130 GMT by Danny Kemp with Grace Matsiko in Gulu, Uganda Africa-AU-health-virus-diplomacy,ADVANCER ADDIS ABABA African leaders are expected to focus on the continent's Covid-19 response at a virtual summit this weekend, as well as pressing security crises that have gone overlooked during the pandemic. 750 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet 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 -- Italy-politics,WRAP ROME Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi meets political leaders in his quest to form a new Italian government, after being parachuted in to resolve a crisis in the virus-plagued country. 450 words 1100 GMT by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Also moving: Italy-politics-economy,FACTS Belgium-Iran-trial-attack-France BRUSSELS A Belgian court returns a verdict in the trial of an Iranian diplomat accused of plotting a bomb attack against opposition activists meeting in France. 450 words 1100 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere. Picture. Video Britain-EU-NIreland-Brexit-politics,SCENE LARNE, Northern Ireland In the Northern Irish port of Larne sinister graffiti labelling border staff "targets" has been power-washed from the walls -- but unionist resentments over post-Brexit checks in the British province remain. 800 words 1030 GMT by Joe Stenson. File picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-politics-crime,WRAP BEIRUT A prominent Lebanese activist known for his opposition to the Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah is found shot dead in his car in the country's south. 500 words 1000 GMT by Tony Gamal-Gabriel. File picture. File video Algeria-France-trial-jihadist,WRAP ALGIERS The trial over the murder of a French mountaineer opens in Algeria, more than six years after he was beheaded by Islamic State group-linked militants during a hiking trip. 500 words 1230 GMT -- 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 moved by Sebastian Smith. 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 moved Florence Goisnard. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- 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 moved by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor -- SCIENCE AND HEALTH -- 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 --SPORT -- Oly-2022-health-virus-China,FOCUS BEIJING The countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics hits the one-year mark with preparations overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and concerns over alleged human rights abuses, including a mass incarceration in Xinjiang. 650 words moved by Ludovic Ehret with Peter Stebbings in Shanghai. Picture. File Video -- PEOPLE/ENTERTAINMENT -- 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-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 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 moved by Michael Mathes. File picture afp
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