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| - The year 2020 opened with a coronavirus pandemic that has now claimed more than 1.6 million lives around the world and brought the global economy to its knees. 2020 will also go down as a year which saw the weakening of democracies, the strengthening of the global tech titans and the advance of global warming. We will shortly move the following stories covering the events which marked 2020 and will continue to weigh on 2021. We will also be publishing the top 100 AFP photos of 2020 and a video selection of the year's highlights. Year2020-health-virus,FOCUS PARIS When the world celebrated the dawn of a new decade with a blaze of firework parties and revelry on January 1, few could have imagined what 2020 had in store. In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralysed economies, devastated communities and confined nearly four billion people to their homes. It has been a year that changed the world like no other for at least a generation, possibly since World War II. 1,600 words by Jennie Matthew Year2020-review,CHRONO PARIS The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world. 1,000 words Year2020-deaths PARIS From legendary actors Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to matriarch of the US Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsberg, AFP lists some of the notable deaths of 2020. 600 words Year2020-records,FACTS PARIS Records tumbled across the board in 2020, from the warming planet to the humble rowing machine. 400 words Year2020-offbeat PARIS The coronavirus has not given us much to laugh about in 2020. Yet the year still had its fair share of the weird and the wonderful. AFP recalls some of its some of its wackiest stories 1,000 words On Wednesday, AFP will be moving the following items: + Freedom: another casualty of pandemic + Bid to make 'ecocide' a crime gains new momentum + Courts summoned to rule on climate change + 2020 emissions: precedent-setting or bucking the trend + Bolstered by pandemic, tech titans face growing scrutiny + Gig economy workers say they can no longer survive + Masked and muted Olympics will still dominate crowded 2021 in sports afp
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