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| - Duty Editor: Alex Nicoll Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus pushes US hospitals to the brink + Croatia conservatives hail poll victory + Desperate search for Japan flood survivors + F1 roars back in incident-strewn race + First online Paris fashion week begins Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Officials at the epicenter of the worsening coronavirus crisis in the United States warn their hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed by the upsurge, as India registers a record number of new cases. 700 words moved by Ben Sheppard. Picture. Video. Graphic Croatia-politics-vote,WRAP ZAGREB Croatia's conservatives score a re-election victory in a parliamentary vote, putting them in a strong position to build a government that will inherit the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by Lajla Veselica. Picture. Video Japan-weather-rain-flood,WRAP TOKYO Rescue workers in Japan comb through the wreckage of houses shattered by deadly floods and landslides in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll rises and more torrential rain looms. 600 words 0300 GMT by Kyoko Hasegawa. Picture. Video Auto-Prix-AUT,WRAP SPIELBERG, Austria Valtteri Bottas stays calm in a stormy race to claim a measured victory for Mercedes as Formula One returns with a bang in a belated, dramatic and incident-strewn 2020 season-opening Austrian Grand Prix. 650 words moved. Picture Also moved: Auto-Prix-AUT-Bottas Lifestyle-France-fashion-virtual,WRAP PARIS The first ever online Paris fashion week clicks off with the world of glitzy runway shows thrown into an existential crisis by the coronavirus. 600 words 0400 GMT by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. Video Also moving: Lifestyle-France-fashion-hautecouture,INTERVIEW -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics WASHINGTON US Sunbelt mayors warn that their cities are at risk of being overwhelmed by a surge of coronavirus cases as they push back against US President Donald Trump's attempt to minimize the gravity of the spreading virus. 700 words moved by Brian Knowlton. Picture Dominican-vote-health-virus,WRAP SANTO DOMINGO Wearing masks and observing social distancing, voters in the Dominican Republic brave a worsening coronavirus outbreak to cast their ballots for a new president and legislature of the Caribbean country. 650 words moved. Picture US-politics-racism-history,FOCUS WASHINGTON A national park populated with statues of "American heroes"? The surprise idea, proposed by President Donald Trump over the July 4 holiday weekend, hardly seems likely to calm partisan passions in the deeply divided country. 800 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. -- ASIA -- India-health-virus NEW DELHI, India India adds a record number of coronavirus cases, as one of the world's worst-hit nations opens a huge treatment centre with 10,000 beds in the capital to fight the disease. 500 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics LONDON Britain's separation talks with European Union resume with few signs of compromise on a new trade agreement and time running out to avoid a messy split. 450 words 0300 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. File picture. Health-virus-Germany-restaurants,FOCUS BERLIN Germany has weathered the pandemic better than many of its neighbours, but its restaurants and cafes are still struggling to win back customers, as coronavirus fears linger. 650 words 0330 GMT by Florian Cazeres. File picture France-politics,WRAP PARIS France's new Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected to unveil a reshuffled government tasked with helping the economy brave its worst crisis since World War II and injecting new momentum into the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. 600 words 0400 GMT by Laurence Benhamou and Stuart Williams. Picture Germany-court-WWII-Holocaust BERLIN The prosecution's closing arguments are set to be heard in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II. 500 words 0330 GMT by Femke Colborne. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics-music-festival,lead BEIRUT A philharmonic orchestra performs to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of economic meltdown and pandemic. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest-gas-Total MAPUTO, Mozambique Gunmen ambush and kill eight employees of a private construction firm working on a multi-billion-dollar gas project in Mozambique's restive north. 300 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-asnomia,FOCUS PARIS For some survivors of coronavirus, their brush with the virus costs them their sense of smell, which one sufferer describes as a kind of torture. 650 words 0400 GMT by Laurence Coustal. File picture afp
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