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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + China's Xi makes rare visit to virus hospital + S.Korea celebrates 'Parasite' Oscar victory + Democrat rivals lock horns ahead of New Hampshire + Merkel's heir-apparent abandons leadership plan + Prayers for victims of deadly Thai gun rampage China-health-virus,WRAP BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping dons a face mask and has his temperature checked while visiting medical workers and patients affected by the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 900 people. 800 words 1430 GMT by Helen Roxburgh and Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: China-health-virus-countries,FACTS China-health-virus,CHRONO Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP HOLLYWOOD Movie history is made at the Oscars as South Korea's black comedy "Parasite" becomes the first non-English-language film to win best picture, Hollywood's biggest prize of all. 850 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Video. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-moments,POINTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-music,POINTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-winners,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-animated-ToyStory4,PROFILE US-politics-vote,WRAP MANCHESTER, New Hampshire The gloves comes off in the Democratic White House race as frontrunners Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg trade blows on the eve of New Hampshire's key primary -- and a struggling Joe Biden sharpens his attacks on both rivals. 600 words 1630 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video. Graphic Germany-politics-parties,WRAP BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and her plans to stay on until 2021 are plunged into disarray after her heir-apparent gave up her leadership ambitions in a deepening crisis over ties between the centre and far right. 650 words 1430 GMT by Yacine Le Forestier. Picture. Video Also moving: Germany-politics-Merkel-successors,FACTS Also moved: Germany-politics-CDU-Kramp-Karrenbauer,PROFILE Thailand-crime-shooting NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand Grieving relatives of 29 people murdered by a rogue soldier in Thailand hold Buddhist prayer ceremonies, as questions multiply over how and why the unprecedented shooting spree happened. 500 words moved. Video. Live video. Photo. Also moved: Thailand-army-crime-gunman,PROFILE -- CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK -- China-virus-health-Japan-ship,4thlead TOKYO Another 65 people aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship moored off Japan are diagnosed with novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of known infections to 135. 600 words moved by Shingo Ito. Picture China-health-virus-Spain-mobile,lead BARCELONA Major tech companies are skipping the inescapable Mobile World Congress this year owing to fears over the coronavirus, though Chinese groups ZTE and Huawei still plan to attend. 600 words 1500 GMT by Emmanuelle Michel China-health-virus-economy,FOCUS BEIJING Wang Li's guesthouse sits a stone's throw from the Great Wall, an idyllic setting for a weekend getaway. But in these uncertain times of the new coronavirus, Wang and her family are the only occupants. 800 words moved by Beiyi Seow. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-budget-politics-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON With months left before critical presidential elections, President Donald Trump is to unveil a budget roadmap that abandons key deficit cutting promises based on lofty and unlikely economic assumptions. 500 words 1500 GMT by Heather Scott -- EUROPE -- Ireland-vote,WRAP DUBLIN Republican party Sinn Fein stands on the threshold of a potential role in Ireland's government after winning the popular vote in a weekend election, a result shattering the political landscape. 700 words 1600 GMT by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Ireland-vote-McDonald,PROFILE Ireland-vote-SinnFein,FACTS Russia-politics-trial,WRAP MOSCOW A Russian court sentences a group of young anarchists to between six and 18 years in prison on terror and other charges, with critics decrying the "monstrous" punishment. 600 words 1500 GMT by Marina Lapenkova and Maria Antonova. Video Europe-weather-storms,WRAP FRANKFURT Storm Ciara claims three lives and causes travel mayhem across Europe, severely disrupting commutes, grounding hundreds of flights and leaving vast areas without power after torrential rain and winds packing up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour. 650 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Video France-trial-women-violence,WRAP PARIS A Frenchwoman whose sister and parents were murdered by the sister's former partner accuses the state in court of being responsible for their deaths over its alleged failure to protect the family. 600 words 1600 GMT by Anne-Sophie Laserre Azerbaijan-parliament-vote,WRAP BAKU Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's ruling party celebrates a huge win in snap parliamentary polls but international observers and the opposition denounce sweeping violations ranging from fraud to intimidation. 650 words moved by Elman Mamedov. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict,WRAP QAMINAS, SYRIA Syrian troops kill five Turkish soldiers in the Idlib region as the number of people displaced by violence there nears 700,000 since December. 650 words 1500 GMT by Omar Haj Kadour and Hashem Osseiran. Picture. Video Iran-France-rights-justice PARIS A French-Iranian academic jailed in Iran in a case that has raised tensions between Paris and Tehran is very weakened by a hunger strike that she began in late December and refuses to halt, a support group says. 400 words moved -- AFRICA -- France-fraud-corruption-trial-EGuinea,WRAP PARIS The Paris appeals court confirms a three-year suspended jail sentence for Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea's leader and its vice president, one of several graft investigations against the families of longstanding African leaders. 500 words 1530 GMT by Juliet Montesse -- BUSINESS/ENVIRONMENT -- France-banking-finance-deforestation,ANALYSIS PARIS French banks have provided almost two billion euros of financial backing to agribusiness groups implicated in deforestation despite a law preventing firms from funding environmental damage, according to new analysis seen by AFP. 650 words moved by Patrick Galey -- OSCARS -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-SKorea-Bong,PROFILE SEOUL South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has been on quite a wild ride this awards season. That trip has reached its climax as he makes history with "Parasite," the first non-English-language film ever to win a best picture Oscar. 600 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Video Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-documentary-Obama,lead Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-SKorea-Parasite,FOCUS SEOUL South Korean thriller "Parasite" -- a dark comedy about modern poverty and wealth that has brought down language barriers to open new audiences to foreign film -- can now call itself a history-making Oscar winner. 650 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Video Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscar-actress-Zellweger,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-suppactress-Dern,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-actor-Phoenix,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-suppactor-Pitt,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-fashion,lead afp
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