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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Experts to review AstraZeneca vaccine's safety + 20 killed in Myanmar anti-coup demonstrations + North Korean leader's sister warns US + Biden under pressure as migrant levels soar + 'Mank' leads Oscar nods in record year for women Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA WHO vaccine safety experts ready to meet over the AstraZeneca jab whose rollout has been halted in several European countries over blood clot fears, imperilling the pandemic fight as infection rates continue to surge. 700 words 0230 GMT by Nina Larson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Videographic Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The international community pleads for restraint after at least 20 more anti-coup protesters are killed in Myanmar, as demonstrators return to the streets to demand restored democracy despite an increasingly bloody crackdown by the military junta. 650 words 0330 GMT. Video. Picture NKorea-US-SKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister warned Washington against pursuing actions that might make it "lose sleep", state media reported Tuesday as the new US secretaries of state and defence began a visit to Tokyo and Seoul. 700 words 0230 GMT by Sunghee Hwang. File picture US-politics-immigration,WRAP BROWNSVILLE, United States President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure from Republicans over his handling of a surge in migrants -- including thousands of unaccompanied children -- arriving at the US-Mexican border. 800 words moved by Paul Handley. File picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP LOS ANGELES "Mank," David Fincher's black-and-white ode to "Citizen Kane," comfortably leads this year's Oscars nominations with 10 nods including for best picture and best director, as female filmmakers smash Academy records. 900 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,POINTS Entertainment-US-film-Zhao,PROFILE -- SPOTLIGHT -- Ethiopia-Eritrea-Tigray-conflict-unrest,FOCUS WUKRO, Ethiopia Kibrom Hailu wasn't too worried when his 15-year-old son stepped out to play volleyball one morning last month near their home in Wukro, in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region. Only when he heard gunfire did Kibrom realise the danger, and by then it was too late. 1,000 words 0300 GMT by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video - AMERICAS - US-economy-spending-stimulus,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus will start flooding into the US economy soon, and some analysts say much of that money could end up invested in stocks or even bitcoin. 550 words 0200 GMT US-racism-justice-Floyd,FOCUS MINNEAPOLIS, United States Memorial or no-go zone? The Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed last summer by a white police officer, has become a bit of both. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture Bolivia-politics,WRAP LA PAZ Bolivia's opposition call for protests against the arrest and detention of former president Jeanine Anez on charges of leading a coup d'etat against her socialist predecessor Evo Morales. 750 words moved by Jose Arturo Cardenas. Picture. Video US-ISS,FOCUS WASHINGTON After 20 years of continuous habitation, the International Space Station has entered its "Golden Age" and is abuzz with activity -- thanks in large part to the return of US rocket launches via commercial partner SpaceX. 750 words moved by Lucie Aubourg. File picture. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Greece-Turkey-diplomacy-energy ATHENS NATO members Greece and Turkey meet in Athens to try once more to settle their standoff over eastern Mediterranean borders and energy rights. 400 words 0400 GMT by Helene Colliopoulou Netherlands-vote-politics,WRAP THE HAGUE The Netherlands starts three days of socially-distanced voting in one of the first major tests of a European government's coronavirus policies, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte expected to win another term in office. 700 words moved by Danny Kemp and Jan Hennop. Picture. Video. Graphic Spain-politics-Podemos,WRAP MADRID Pablo Iglesias, leader of the hard-left party Podemos and a deputy prime minister in Spain's ruling coalition, says he is resigning from the government to run as Madrid's regional chief. 620 words moved by Hazel Ward. Picture Also moved: Spain-politics-Podemos-Iglesias,PROFILE Health-virus-Portugal,FOCUS AZORES, Portugal Battered by North Atlantic weather and sometimes starved of vital supplies, the tiny Portuguese island of Corvo has a crucial advantage in the fight against the pandemic: its remoteness. 500 words 0330 GMT by Thomas Cabral. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-vote-minorities-crime,FOCUS JALJULIA, Israel It had been days since 14-year-old Mohammed Adas was shot dead outside his home in Israel, but his mother Suheila couldn't bear to wash his scent off his clothes. 760 words 0230 GMT by Majeda El-Batsh and Claire Gounon. Picture Also moving: Israel-vote-Bennett,PROFILE Israel-vote-Saar,PROFILE Libya-politics,WRAP TOBRUK, Libya Libya's new interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is sworn in to lead the war-torn country's transition to elections in December, after years of chaos and division. 600 words moved. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Libya-conflict-politics,CHRONO Sudan-Ethiopia-border,Q&A KHARTOUM A decades-old border dispute over fertile farmland between Sudan and Ethiopia is feeding regional rivalry and even sparking fears of broader conflict, analysts say. 800 words 0300 GMT Iraq-Kurds-justice-health,FOCUS HALABJA, Iraq For more than 20 hours a day, Hawker Saber is on a respirator -- one of the survivors still suffering 33 years after a chemical attack ordered by Saddam Hussein on the Kurdish town of Halabja. 830 words 0300 GMT by Shwan Muhammad. Picture. File picture. Video Yemen-conflict-Qaeda,FOCUS ABU DHABI Years of setbacks have weakened the once mighty Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda, but the militants are seizing the opportunity to regenerate while the government and Huthi rebels are locked in a fight to the death in the north. 830 words 0330 GMT by Fawaz Al Haidari -- AFRICA -- Kenya-Somalia-ICJ-diplomacy-oil THE HAGUE The UN's top court allows Somalia's case to go ahead in a long-running dispute with Kenya over their sea border -- a quarrel with a potential oil and gas bonanza at stake. 450 words moved by Danny Kemp. Graphic. Videographics Also moved: Kenya-Somalia-court-diplomacy-fishing,SCENE Somalia-Kenya-diplomacy, FACTS -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-Grammys-MeganTheeStallion,FOCUS NEW YORK A social media master with a magnetic, Texas-sized personality and razor-sharp flow, Megan Thee Stallion has established herself as a leading member of rap's vanguard. 750 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. 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