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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump virus adviser quits as vaccine hopes rise + Azerbaijan forces raise flag in key district + Pandemic pushes global aid need to $35bn + Yachtsman safe after South Atlantic rescue + Battle over borscht: new front in Russia-Ukraine conflict Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump's controversial coronavirus adviser resigns while hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 receive a further boost with an announcement from US firm Moderna. 800 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video. Graphics Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP LACHIN, Azerbaijan Azerbaijani soldiers hoist their country's flag in the final district given up by Armenia under a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. 750 word 1030 GMT by Emmanuel Peuchot. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-deal,CHRONO Health-virus-UN-aid-conflict GENEVA The UN says $35 billion will be needed for aid in 2021, as the pandemic leaves tens of millions more people in crisis, and with the risk of multiple famines looming. 700 words moved by Nine Larson. Picture. Video. Graphic Yachting-Vendee-rescue,2ndlead CAPE TOWN French Vendee Globe yachtsman Kevin Escoffier is reported "safe and sound" after being rescued from the Atlantic off the Cape of Good Hope by rival skipper Jean Le Cam in his monohull Hubert 400 words moved Ukraine-Russia-conflict-food,FOCUS KIEV Ukrainian chef Ievgen Klopotenko never expected to find himself at the centre of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. But that's just what happened when he pushed to have borscht -- the traditional beetroot and cabbage dish -- recognised as part of Ukraine's historical heritage. 650 words moved by Olga Shylenko. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Britain LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government battles to defuse a party revolt as lawmakers vote on tough new Covid restrictions to replace an England-wide lockdown. 500 words 1100 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Ireland Epidemic-health-virus-Year2020-origin-animal,FOCUS PARIS While many scientists are racing to find vaccines to tame the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, other researchers are probing the past, trying to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the virus: exactly where it came from. 900 words moved by Paul Ricard Health-virus-Year2020,FOCUS WUHAN, China One year after the coronavirus began spreading from the city, Wuhan next-of-kin are no nearer to closure as the Chinese government's refusal to take responsibility for early failures in the outbreak complicates the task of coming to terms with their loss. 800 words moved by Dan Martin. Video. Picture Please see our separate advisory on a year of the pandemic -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade LONDON The UK government urges businesses to get ready for the end of the Brexit transition period in one month's time, as talks on a free trade deal remain deadlocked. 500 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-economy-government,WRAP WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden announces he will nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury, topping a slate of economic officials who would break racial and gender barriers in the US government. 750 words moved by Chris Stein. File Picture US-politics-court-census,WRAP WASHINGTON The right-leaning US Supreme Court appears doubtful about President Donald Trump's plan to exclude potentially millions of illegal immigrants from the national census count, which could shift the balance of US politics over the next decade. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive Mexico-politics,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marks two years in office faced with a soaring coronavirus death toll and economic crisis that have had little obvious impact on his popularity. 700 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez -- ASIA -- Vietnam-censorship-Facebook-YouTube-Google HANOI Facebook and Google are fast becoming "human rights-free zones" in Vietnam, Amnesty International warns, accusing the tech titans of helping censor peaceful dissent and political expression in the country. 500 words moved by Alice Philipson HongKong-China-politics-prison,FOCUS HONG KONG When Hong Kong protester Hei saw fellow activists put behind bars for taking part in last year's democracy protests, she was determined to keep the flame burning by writing them letters. 600 words moved by Yan Zhao. Picture Cambodia-Pakistan-wildlife-elephant ODDAR MEANCHEY, Cambodia It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years -- reaching out with his trunk, Kaavan tentatively greeted a fellow inhabitant of the Cambodian sanctuary where he is beginning his new life after being rescued from grim conditions in a Pakistani zoo. 350 words moved. Picture -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-trees,FOCUS UM RAQUBA, Sudan Bulldozers are tearing down trees by the dozen to make way for shelters for Ethiopian refugees at Sudan's Um Raquba reception camp, and some are appalled at the environmental impact. 500 words 1200 GMT by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict-doctors,FOCUS AZAZ, Syria Mohammed Mostafa al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by Bakr Al-Kasem. Picture. Video Kuwait-politics-vote-health-virus,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Lavish banquets served in opulent marquees are nowhere to be seen this election season in oil-rich Kuwait, where the coronavirus pandemic has forced a ban on traditional over-the-top campaign events. 650 words moved by Salima Lebel. Picture. Video -- SPORT AND LIFESTYLE -- China-lifestyle-sport-wingsuit,FOCUS ZHANGJIAJIE, China Zhang Shupeng appears untroubled as he surveys the jagged mountains of a national park in central China -- before diving head-first off a cliff to bullet down at 230 kilometres (140 miles) an hour. 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. Picture. Video Rugby-ARG-Tri-2020-racism-Matera,3rdlead SYDNEY Argentina rugby skipper Pablo Matera is stripped of the captaincy and suspended along with two other players over "discriminatory and xenophobic" tweets. 500 words moved by Andrew Beatty. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-fashion-style-Clooney-US WASHINGTON Pandemic hair getting out of control? Take a tip from George Clooney: the Hollywood style icon reveals he trims his signature silver locks with a Flowbee -- a quirky home-styling device that attaches to a vacuum cleaner. 250 words moved. File Picture afp
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