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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe takes cautious steps to ease lockdowns + 16 killed in Canada shooting rampage + Oil prices dive to 22-year lows + Australia forces Google, Facebook to pay for news + Harry and Meghan blacklist UK tabloids Health-virus,WRAP LEIPZIG, Germany Germany and other parts of Europe take tentative steps to ease lockdown measures but officials warn the battle against the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. 950 words 1530 GMT by Raphaelle Logerot with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Canada-police-crime-shooting,WRAP MONTREAL In the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, investigators try to determine why a denturist with no criminal past killed 16 people. 600 words 1600 GMT by Eric Thomas. Picture Markets-world,WRAP LONDON US oil prices dive to 22-year lows under $11 after crashing 40 percent in a market flooded with crude as demand evaporates in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words 1600 GMT by Roland Jackson Australia-internet-media-Google-Facebook,WRAP BRISBANE Australia says it will force Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for their content, vowing to lead the world in making the tech giants share lucrative advertising revenues with traditional media. 700 words moved by Holly Robertson. File Picture Britain-royals-media,2ndlead LONDON Prince Harry and his wife Meghan pleaded with her father not to speak to the media in the run-up to their wedding, according to court documents filed in a breach of privacy case against a British newspaper group, as the couple blacklist UK tabloids. 650 words 1500 GMT by David Harding. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-France-riot,2ndlead PARIS Police fight running battles in two of Paris's northern suburbs with residents who accuse officers of using heavy-handed tactics to enforce France's strict coronavirus lockdown. 400 words 1500 GMT. Picture Health-virus-Germany,2ndlead BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for discipline in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, warning that Germany is not "out of the woods" as the country took small steps in easing curbs imposed to slow contagion. 650 words 1500 GMT by Kit Holden with Raphaelle Logerot in Leipzig. Picture. Video. Live video Health-virus-Spain-France-cruise,lead BARCELONA After five weeks without setting foot on land due to coronavirus restrictions, hundreds of passengers from a luxury Italian cruise ship disembark in Barcelona, ending a highly-unusual world trip. 500 words 1530 GMT by Daniel Bosque. Picture Health-virus-Russia-hospital,SCENE MOSCOW An old woman curled up and coughing, an elderly man on a ventilator, a woman in her 50s lying on her front to improve her breathing -- this is the intensive care ward at Moscow's K+31 private hospital, a once-exclusive clinic that has switched to treating coronavirus patients as the number of cases in Russia rises. 550 words 1630 GMT by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Mideast-Ramadan,FOCUS RIYADH From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramadan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. 850 words 1500 GMT by Anuj Chopra with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-Holocaust-history,FOCUS JERUSALEM Berthe Badehi, who hid from the Nazis as a child during World War II, has become one of the many Holocaust survivors confined to their homes to evade the coronavirus. 700 words moved by Michael Blum and Guillaume Lavallee Syria-conflict-Germany-trial-warcrimes,FOCUS BERLIN When Anwar al-Bunni crossed paths with fellow Syrian Anwar Raslan in a DIY store in Germany five years ago, he recognised him as the man who had thrown him into prison around a decade earlier. The two men will face each other in a German court on Thursday. 700 words moved by Yannick Pasquet. Picture Also moved: Syria-conflict-justice,FACTS Syria-conflict-rights,FACTS Health-virus-Syria-conflict-Kurds NEAR HASAKE, Syria Syria's Kurds have set up a specialised hospital for coronavirus cases, the Kurdish Red Crescent says, after the first COVID-19 death was reported in the northeastern region. 400 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-France-sociology,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM The coronavirus pandemic has "destroyed" the rights of dying people, renowned Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz says, lamenting the absence of meaningful human contact in many patients' final days. 450 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture Health-virus-Iran,lead TEHRAN Iran reports 91 new deaths from the novel coronavirus as the government allows more economic activity to resume after a gradual reopening in the past 10 days. 500 words 1600 GMT. Picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Nigeria-tests,FOCUS LAGOS A black market in coronavirus test kits is surging in Nigeria, along with scepticism in the country's health system to cope with an insidious, spreading foe. 700 words 1630 GMT by Sophie Bouillon Health-virus-Ghana-lockdown,SCENE ACCRA While some Ghanaians are relieved to get back to work, others are fretting after the country became one of the first in Africa to lift a coronavirus lockdown. 600 words 1700 GMT by Kent Mensah. Picture. Video Health-virus-Tanzania-politics,FOCUS DAR ES SALAAM Tanzanian President John Magufuli has told citizens to turn to God and to keep the economy running, but as coronavirus cases creep up, calls are rising for the country to take stronger action. While countries across Africa have imposed curfews, partial and full lockdowns, Tanzania has resisted such measures. 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Mexico-labor,FOCUS MEXICO CITY When Ana Lilia Gonzalez fell ill with flu-like symptoms, she went to the infirmary at her factory in a Mexican city on the US border, where the doctor told her she could carry on working. Two weeks later, she was dead. 800 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias -- ASIA -- China-politics-corruption-HongKong BEIJING China's deputy public security minister, who was placed in charge of security affairs for protest-wracked Hong Kong in 2017, is being investigated by the country's anti-graft body for alleged corruption. 400 words moved -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-health-virus-JPN,lead TOKYO A Japanese expert who has criticised the country's response to the coronavirus warns that he is "pessimistic" that the postponed Olympics can be held even in 2021. 600 words moved by Sara Hussein. Video Baseball-TPE-Taiwan-sport-virus-health TAIPEI Playing to empty stadiums, Taiwan has managed to keep its baseball league running during the coronavirus pandemic -- but social distancing went out of the window on Sunday when a game descended into an on-field brawl. 350 words moved afp
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