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| - Duty Editor: Simon Morgan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Efforts intensify for ceasefire in Israel-Gaza conflict + US, Russia seek to ease tensions in Reykjavik talks + New storm warning in India after deadly cyclone + World's biggest iceberg breaks off Antarctica + Record 55 million people flee conflict, natural disasters: NGO Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Diplomats step up efforts toward a ceasefire to stem 10 days of deadly violence between Israel and armed Palestinian groups in Gaza as the two sides exchanged bombardments and rocket salvos. 850 words 0930 GMT by Sakher Abou El Oun with Daniella Cheslow in Jerusalem. Picture. Graphic. Video. Live Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,CHRONO Arctic-politics-US-Russia,WRAP REYKJAVIK The eight countries bordering the Arctic meet in Iceland to discuss peaceful cooperation in the region amid rising temperatures and tensions, in particular between Russia and the US. 700 words 1100 GMT by Francesco Fontemaggi. Picture. Video. Also moving: Arctic-Denmark-Canada-Iceland-Finland-Russia-US-science-environment,FACTS India-weather-cyclone-health-virus,WRAP AHMEDABAD, India Indian forecasters warn of a major new weather system brewing in the Bay of Bengal as at least 110 people are confirmed killed in the fiercest cyclone to hit western India in decades. 500 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Environment-climate-iceberg,2ndlead PARIS A huge iceberg, the world's largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency says. 400 words moved by Kelly Macnamara Conflict-refugee-disaster-IDMC,WRAP GENEVA Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors say. 650 words moved by Nina Larson. Video. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Sweden-Arctic-Russia-defence,FOCUS BODEN, Sweden In a snow-draped forest in northern Sweden, hundreds of soldiers in white-camouflage uniforms built dugouts, patrolled on skis and laid mock ambushes to test their readiness to fight in Arctic environments. 850 words moved by Tom Little. Picture. Video Fashion-technology-climate-US-Britain-Netherlands,FOCUS PARIS From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. 850 words moved by Eric Randolph. Picture China-disabled-wheelchair-health,FOCUS SHANGHAI Amid the cars, scooters and bicycles waiting at a traffic light in Shanghai sits an old man in an electric wheelchair, forced to brave the busy downtown roads of China's biggest city by busy, narrow or clogged pavements. 700 words moved by Peter Stebbings. Picture. Video -- ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-rights,FOCUS JERUSALEM A text message, a phone call, or a warning shot. Israel's army says it gives Gaza civilians warnings to evacuate before air strikes, but rights activists say it is not enough. 700 words 1300 GMT by Daphne Rousseau Israel-Palestinians-conflict-disability,SCENE DEIR EL-BALAH, Palestinian Territories Disabled Palestinian Eyad Saleha, 33, was waiting for lunch when a missile fell on his family home in Gaza, killing him, his pregnant wife and their three-year-old daughter, his brother and authorities say. 450 words moved by Adel Zaanoun. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,CHRONO Israel-Palestinians-conflict-diplomacy-France-US,FOCUS PARIS The international community, wary of antagonising Israel and weakened by divisions between the United States and Europe, is walking a diplomatic tightrope over the conflict in Gaza that has slowed efforts for a ceasefire. 650 words 1230 GMT by Valerie Leroux -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-patent-billionaires PARIS Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group said Thursday, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations' "monopoly control" on vaccine technology. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Europe-migrants-Germany-crime-trial,WRAP BERLIN The trial of a German soldier who allegedly plotted to attack prominent politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee opened Thursday in a bizarre case fuelling concerns over right-wing extremism. 700 words 1000 GMT by Kit Holden. France-politics-trial,lead PARIS Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, just weeks after the rightwing heavyweight was convicted in a landmark corruption case. 600 words 1400 GMT. Graphic. File picture. File video France-health-trial PARIS An appeals court says a German safety certifier is liable over improperly approved breast implants that were at risk of rupturing, potentially moving a step closer to compensation sought by thousands of women worldwide. 500 words 1000 GMT. Greece-fire,WRAP ALEPOCHORI, Greece Several Greek villages are evacuated with no injuries reported as firefighters battled the country's first major blaze of the year in a pristine pine forest overlooking the Gulf of Corinth. 450 words 1030 GMT by Will Vassilopoulos. Picture. Video. Graphic Slovenia-politics-EU,FOCUS LJUBLJANA Less than two months before Slovenia takes over the EU's rotating presidency, conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa is battling fires at home and abroad -- including an impeachment motion. 750 words moved by Bojan Kavcic. File picture. File video -- NORTH AFRICA -- Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco,FOCUS FNIDEQ, Morocco Moroccan high school student Mohamed, 17, dropped everything -- his studies, his final exams, even his family -- to try to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, like countless other youngsters who see no future in the North African country. 600 words 1200 GMT. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest,FOCUS KINSHASA Thousands of Banyamulenge people have fled a flare-up of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika. The renewed violence is a legacy of decades of bitter ethnic rivalries. 750 words 1100 GMT by Herve Bar. File picture. Video DRCongo-Rwanda-justice-diplomacy-warcrimes,FOCUS PARIS A growing campaign for justice for war victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused fresh tensions with neighbouring Rwanda and its leader Paul Kagame, whose troops took part in two invasions in the 1990s. 700 words 1100 GMT by Lucie Petermann and Marthe Bosuandole in Kinshasa -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-abortion-Texas-social,lead WASHINGTON The governor of Texas signs a bill banning abortion at six weeks, joining a conservative push to change the rules on one of the United States' most divisive issues. 500 words moved Germany-US-Russia-gas-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's administration waives sanctions against Nord Stream 2, the Russian-controlled builder of a Russia-Germany gas pipeline, which Washington has called a geopolitical security risk. 600 words moved by Paul Handley Brazil-environment-crime-politics,WRAP BRASILIA Brazil's Supreme Court orders an investigation of Environment Minister Ricardo Salles as police raid ministry offices, targeting a timber trafficking ring allegedly involving him and other top officials in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government. 750 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture. Video. File video -- ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE -- Entertainment-Russia-Eurovision-politics-Manizha,PROFILE MOSCOW Russia's unlikely entry to the Eurovision song contest, a Tajik-born refugee and feminist activist, knows she is riling the country's conservatives. 650 words moved by Marina Lapenkova. Picture. Video Lifestyle-Britain-literature-museum-exhibition-Alice,FOCUS LONDON After a year of the coronavirus pandemic's mind-bending assault on normal life, London's Victoria & Albert Museum reopens this week, taking visitors down another rabbit hole. 600 words moved by Charlotte Durand. Picture. Video -- FINANCE & ECONOMY -- China-economy-technology-Bytedance,Lead BEIJING The boss of the Chinese company behind viral video platform TikTok says he will leave the role because he lacks managerial skills and preferred "reading and daydreaming" to running the tech giant. 500 words moved. File picture China-finance-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin,WRAP NEW YORK Bitcoin's value plunges after China signaled a new crackdown on the cryptocurrency, but its losses were cushioned after Tesla head Elon Musk spoke up on Twitter. 750 words moved by Sebastien Ricci with Joseph Sotinel in London US-economy-politics-unemployment,FOCUS WASHINGTON States across America are moving to cut pandemic unemployment benefits, a painful blow for millions of people who will soon be left without income. 650 words moved. File picture afp
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