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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe emerges from virus lockdown + World leaders pledge billions for vaccine + Russia virus cases surge again + Fresh infections hit German football league + COVID cupid: Finding love in the age of coronavirus Health-virus,WRAP ROME Millions of Europeans emerge with relief from coronavirus confinement, with hard-hit Italy leading the way out of the world's longest lockdown. 900 words 1500 GMT by Dmitry Zaks with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-EU-world-vaccine,lead BRUSSELS World leaders and rich philanthropists pledge billions of euros to boost the hunt for a vaccine to halt the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words 1500 GMT by Damon Wake. Video Health-virus-Russia,lead MOSCOW Russia registers a near record in new daily coronavirus cases as the total infections surpassed 145,000, cementing its position as the European country reporting the most new cases. 500 words moved. Picture Health-virus-Fbl-GER-Bundesliga,WRAP BERLIN The German Football League says there have been 10 positive tests for coronavirus among players and backroom staff across the 36 clubs in the top two divisions but it is pressing ahead with plans to restart the league later this month. 450 words 1500 GMT by Ryland James. File picture Health-virus-US-internet-lifestyle-dating,FOCUS WASHINGTON How do you find love when you're stuck at home? The coronavirus pandemic has made that challenging, to say the least. But millions of single Americans are finding ways. 600 words 1500 GMT by Antoine Boyer -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy-data-toll,2ndlead ROME Italy recorded almost 50 percent more deaths across the country in March than usual, according to new official data showing that the real coronavirus death toll could be far higher than the 29,000 reported. 450 words 1630 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Europe,FOCUS Health-virus-Europe-Italy,lead Serbia-Yugoslavia-Tito-anniversary,WRAP BELGRADE A benevolent unifier or power-hungry dictator? On the 40th anniversary of his death, the legacy of the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito remains a subject of debate in the Balkan lands once united by his grip. 600 words 1600 GMT by Katarina Petrovic with Lajla Veselica in Zagreb. Picture. Video Also moved: Yugoslavia-politics-history-communisim-Tito,FACTS Yugoslavia-Tito-history-anniversary,FACTS Health-virus-Germany-hairdresser,SCENE BERLIN Helmut Wichter had been desperate for a haircut for weeks as hair salons were shut in Germany to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "I looked like Robinson Crusoe," says the 87-year-old, joining crowds flocking to salons as they reopened their doors. 500 words 1500 GMT by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video Health-virus-France-literature-Houellebecq,lead PARIS French writer Michel Houellebecq says the world will just be the same after the coronavirus epidemic, just a bit worse. 600 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. File picture Health-virus-Russia-migration-economy-Tajikistan,FOCUS DUSHANBE At an odd jobs market in the capital of ex-Soviet Tajikistan, the crowds of desperate men hoping to land work are getting larger. If Russia had not sealed its borders, many of the men would be looking for work there instead. 700 words moved by Khurshed Davronov with Tolkun Namatbayeva in Bishkek. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-US-virus-toll,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has cast a COVID-19 death toll of 100,000 as a worst-case scenario for the United States, but several epidemiological models show it passing that grim milestone as early as June, and none predict a short-term halt to the virus's spread. 650 words 1700 GMT by Ivan Couronne. Picture US-court-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON After a coronavirus-enforced pause, the US Supreme Court resumes hearing cases -- and in a small revolution for the tradition-bound institution the justices will phone in from home, with live audio broadcast on radio and television. 600 words 1730 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Picture Health-virus-US-China-diplomacy-Pompeo,FOCUS WASHINGTON Branded "insane" by Chinese state media and increasingly lionized by conservatives at home, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is asserting himself as Washington's most vocal hawk on Beijing as the world confronts the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words 1800 GMT by Shaun Tandon. File Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's Supreme Court tackles the vexed question of whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's deal to form a coalition government after three inconclusive polls in a year is actually legal. 500 words 1630 GMT by Stephen Weizman. Picture. Video Lebanon-politics-economy,Q&A BEIRUT Protest-hit Lebanon has requested IMF aid as it battles its worst financial crisis in decades. But how did Lebanon become one of the world's most indebted countries, what's the plan out of the quagmire, and will it work? 750 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal. File video Iraq-conflict-jihadists,FOCUS BAGHDAD Islamic State group remnants in Iraq are exploiting a coronavirus lockdown, coalition troop withdrawals and simmering political disputes to ramp up deadly attacks, analysts and intelligence officials say. 700 words moved by Salam Faraj. Picture. Video Israel-Britain-history-language-racism,FOCUS JERUSALEM A short-lived term unlikely to have any use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed "anti-Semite", recently uncovered archival documents show. 550 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-Judaism,FOCUS JERUSALEM Serge Bokobza's family didn't want him to be buried anywhere but Jerusalem so when he died of coronavirus they transferred the body from France, despite the difficulties during a pandemic. 650 words moved by Michael Blum. File picture Syria-conflict-IS-rights BEIRUT Human Rights Watch calls for an investigation into a spectacular gorge in the north of war-torn Syria that has been used as a dumping site for dead bodies over several years. 350 words moved -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Mali-religion,FOCUS BAMAKO AFP follows a large Malian family observing Ramadan, finding that faith and family unity trump intense heat, hunger pangs and worries about coronavirus. 850 words moved by Amaury Hauchard. Pictures Health-virus-Nigeria,SCENE LAGOS Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, returns to work at the end of a tough five-week coronavirus lockdown, despite a probe into "mass" COVID-19 deaths in a northern state. 500 words 1530 GMT by Celia Lebur and Joel Olatunde Agoi -- ASIA -- HongKong-Vietnam-crime-history-refugee,FOCUS HONG KONG Three decades after he landed on Hong Kong shores as a child refugee, Vo Van Hung is fighting efforts to deport him to Vietnam now that he has finished a lengthy jail sentence -- for murder. 700 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture Japan-health-virus,WRAP TOKYO Japan's prime minister extends a state of emergency over the coronavirus until the end of May, as the government warns it is too soon to lift restrictions. 600 words moved by Miwa Suzuki. Picture. Video. Live video -- BUSINESS -- HongKong-China-economy-virus-health,2ndlead HONG KONG Hong Kong suffers its worst quarterly contraction since modern records began, official figures show, as the coronavirus outbreak hammered an economy already mired in recession from political unrest and trade war woes. 500 words moved -- SPORTS -- Health-virus-Fbl-ITA-SerieA,WRAP MILAN Cristiano Ronaldo has been recalled from Portugal as Serie A clubs get back to individual training after a two-month coronavirus lockdown, but doubts remain over whether the championship can return. 600 words 1500 GMT. File picture RugbyU-NZL-Originals-anniversary WELLINGTON An unheralded group of New Zealand rugby players set sail for Europe 115 years ago on a tour that would revolutionise the way the game was played and forge the All Blacks' formidable legacy. 600 words moved by Neil Sands. Picture Cricket-virus-IND-Shami NEW DELHI India fast bowler Mohammed Shami has revealed how he thought of committing suicide while struggling with personal problems before making a spectacular comeback to the national side. 350 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture -- CULTURE -- Health-virus-Spain-art-culture-museums,FOCUS MADRID The halls are eerily quiet at Madrid's Reina Sofia, Spain's most visited museum, as a solitary art restorer looks after its star attraction -- Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece "Guernica". 600 words moved by Alvaro Villalobos. Picture. Video afp
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