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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US Covid deaths top half a million + Myanmar junta under renewed sanctions pressure + Facebook lifts ban on Australian news + Canada MPs say 'genocide' in Xinjiang + French dance superstars Daft Punk split Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden orders flags lowered to half mast after the United States crosses the "heartbreaking" milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, while Britain eyes lifting lockdowns in the latest sign of global gains against the pandemic. 850 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Health-virus-US-toll,Q&A Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's military leaders come under renewed pressure at home and abroad, with tightened sanctions from the EU and the US, and some of the biggest demonstrations against their rule since they seized power three weeks ago. 500 words 0300 GMT Australia-media-IT-Facebook-Google SYDNEY Facebook say it will lift its contentious ban on Australian news pages after the government agreed to amend a world-first media law fiercely opposed by the tech giant. 600 words by 0600 GMT by Andrew Beatty Canada-China-politics-diplomacy-rights-Uighurs,WRAP OTTOWA Canadian MPs vote to label Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang as genocide, a move angrily slammed by China as a "malicious provocation." 550 words 0800 GMT Entertainment-France-music-dance,WRAP PARIS One of the era's defining dancefloor acts hangs up their helmets, as electronic music stars Daft Punk announce their retirement in typically enigmatic fashion with a video showing one of them exploding in a desert. 800 words moved by Eric Randolph. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-France-music-dance -- SPOTLIGHT -- India-animal-conservation-health-lions,FOCUS GIR NATIONAL PARK, India Three years after a deadly virus struck India's endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free. 650 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Malaysia-Myanmar-politics-migration,WRAP LUMUT, Malaysia Malaysian activists make a last-ditch legal bid to halt the deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals to their homeland weeks after a coup, following a storm of criticism. 550 words 0800 GMT by M. Jegathesan. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-rights-UN,lead GENEVA The World Health Organization blasts wealthy countries for not only hogging Covid vaccines but in doing so, hindering the pathway for poorer nations to get them too. 740 words moved by Nina Larson. Video Also moved: Health-virus-WHO-vaccines Health-virus-Austria-testing,FOCUS VIENNA While Austria has struggled to contain the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it is fast emerging as a world leader in testing as a way for reopening schools and businesses. 700 words moved by Denise Hruby. File Picture -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest-Italy,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo is among three people killed when a UN convoy is ambushed in the country's troubled east, violence the DRC's president calls a "terrorist attack" and that is blamed on a Rwandan Hutu rebel group. 830 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: DRCongo-unrest-Italy-east,FACTS -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-justice-Trump,WRAP NEW YORK The US Supreme Court allows the release of Donald Trump's tax records to prosecutors, rejecting a last-ditch bid by the former president's lawyers to keep them secret. 650 words moved by Peter Hutchison US-politics-extremism-rights-internet,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Gab instead of Twitter, MeWe over Facebook, Telegram for messaging and Discord for insiders -- banned from mainstream platforms, US conspiracy and supremacist movements, many of which support Donald Trump, have shifted to networks that are more confidential, and harder to regulate. 800 words moved by Julie Jammot -- EUROPE -- EU-diplomacy-Russia-Myanmar-Venezuela-US-sanctions,WRAP BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers agree to impose sanctions on Russian officials for the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and to target Myanmar's military over its seizure of power, the bloc's top envoy says. 800 words moved by Max Delany. Video. Picture Turkey-politics-protests-LGBT,FOCUS ISTANBUL Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Istanbul. But facing growing Turkish government hostility, the young gay man has just one wish: to leave. 750 words moved by Gokan Gunes. Pictures by Ozan Kose. Video by Kadir Demir -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-nuclear-politics-US,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic republic could boost uranium enrichment to 60 percent if needed, hours before new limits on inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog go into force. 870 words moved. Picture. Video Algeria-politics-protest,WRAP ALGIERS Thousands march in Algeria's capital and other cities to mark the second anniversary of the "Hirak" protest movement that forced long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. 600 words moved by Abdelhafid Daamache with Philippe Agret in Paris. Picture. Video Education-Israel-anthropology-Bedouin,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's Negev desert. 650 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video -- LIFESTYLE -- Entertainment-US-film-Murphy,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Thirty years before "Black Panther," Eddie Murphy's 1980s comedy classic "Coming to America" disproved the stubborn Hollywood myth that films with Black casts flop overseas; Now Murphy has decided it's time for a sequel: "Coming 2 America." 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal Norway-art-museum OSLO A mysterious inscription on Edvard Munch's famed painting 'The Scream' has baffled the art world for years, but Norwegian experts have now concluded it was written by none other than the artist himself. 300 words moved Lifestyle-France-theatre-history PALACE OF VERSAILLES, France Pandemic or not, it's a theatre space that very rarely sees an audience: Marie-Antoinette's personal playhouse in the grounds of Versailles is a fragile historical gem in need of delicate care. 400 words moved by Rana Moussaoui. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-JPN-Miura,FOCUS TOKYO Japan's Peter Pan striker Kazuyoshi Miura is preparing to play another season despite turning 54 this week, but he is far from his country's only footballing golden oldie. 650 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. File picture Bvolley-GER-QAT-Doha BERLIN Germany's beach volleyball stars Karla Borger and Julia Sude say they will boycott a tournament in Qatar next month because it is "the only country" where players were forbidden from wearing bikinis on court. 500 words moved afp
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