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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Facebook to lift Australia news ban + US marks 500,000 'heartbreaking' Covid deaths + Myanmar military faces renewed pressure after coup + Opposition demos planned in Georgia after arrest + Eddie Murphy back with 'Coming 2 America' Australia-media-IT-Facebook-Google,WRAP SYDNEY Facebook moves to lift a contentious ban on Australian news pages, after the government agrees to amend a world-first law requiring tech giants to pay media companies. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty Also moved: Australia-US-internet-media-Facebook-Google,Q&A Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden orders flags lowered to half mast after the United States crosses the "heartbreaking" milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, while Britain eyes lifting lockdowns in the latest sign of global gains against the pandemic. 850 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-toll,Q&A Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's military leaders come under renewed pressure as the world's wealthiest nations condemn the junta for responding to anti-coup demonstrators "with violence", a rebuke coming on the heels of tightened sanctions from Washington and Brussels. 650 words 1000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Georgia-politics-opposition-arrest,WRAP TBILISI Opposition parties call for major demonstrations in Georgia after a leading political figure was arrested in an early morning raid on his party headquarters, deepening a spiralling political crisis following disputed parliamentary elections last year. 650 words 1130 GMT by Irakli Metreveli. Pictures. Video Entertainment-US-film-Murphy,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Thirty years before "Black Panther," Eddie Murphy's 1980s comedy classic "Coming to America" disproved the stubborn Hollywood myth that films with Black casts flop overseas; Now Murphy has decided it's time for a sequel: "Coming 2 America." 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal -- SPOTLIGHT -- India-animal-conservation-health-lions,FOCUS GIR NATIONAL PARK, India Three years after a deadly virus struck India's endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free. 650 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video Turkey-politics-protests-LGBT,FOCUS ISTANBUL Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Istanbul. But facing growing Turkish government hostility, the young gay man has just one wish: to leave. 750 words moved by Gokan Gunes. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Austria-testing,FOCUS VIENNA While Austria has struggled to contain the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it is fast emerging as a world leader in testing as a way for reopening schools and businesses. 700 words moved by Denise Hruby. File Picture Forex-Britain-currency-markets-pound,ANALYSIS LONDON The British pound continued a frantic two-month rise against the euro and the dollar, reaching new highs Monday in a sign of traders' enthusiasm for the country's vaccination roll-out. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Poland-nature-history-construction-reed,VIDEOESSAY ELBLAG, Poland In a snowstorm on the Vistula River lagoon near Poland's Baltic coast, a special harvester cuts down reeds destined for export across Europe for use on traditional and sustainable thatched roofs. 400 words moved by Mateusz Slodkowski. Pictures. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Tunisia-funerals,VIDEOESSAY TUNIS Lotfi Jlassi faces Mecca next to the ambulance bearing the body of his brother and says a prayer, one of the few rites still possible in pared down funerals in pandemic-hit Tunisia. 570 words 1100 GMT by Aymen Jamli. Picture. Video Israel-Bedouin-anthropology-education,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's Negev desert. 700 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-justice-Trump,WRAP NEW YORK The US Supreme Court allows the release of Donald Trump's tax records to prosecutors, rejecting a last-ditch bid by the former president's lawyers to keep them secret. 650 words moved by Peter Hutchison US-politics-extremism-rights-internet,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Gab instead of Twitter, MeWe over Facebook, Telegram for messaging and Discord for insiders -- banned from mainstream platforms, US conspiracy and supremacist movements, many of which support Donald Trump, have shifted to networks that are more confidential, and harder to regulate. 800 words moved by Julie Jammot -- ASIA -- Canada-China-politics-diplomacy-rights-Uighurs,WRAP OTTAWA Canadian MPs vote to label Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang as genocide, a move angrily slammed by China as a "malicious provocation." 550 words moved Myanmar-politics-military-lawyer,INTERVIEW BANGKOK Staying in different lodgings each night to evade arrest, the lawyer representing Aung San Suu Kyi says her trial will help determine whether Myanmar's people again become "slaves" of the military. 600 words moved by Dene-Hern Chen. File picture Malaysia-Myanmar-politics-migration,WRAP LUMUT, Malaysia A Malaysian court orders a temporary halt to a controversial plan to deport 1,200 Myanmar detainees to their homeland weeks after a coup, following a last-ditch legal challenge. 600 words 1000 GMT by M. Jegathesan. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-JPN-Miura,FOCUS TOKYO Japan's Peter Pan striker Kazuyoshi Miura is preparing to play another season despite turning 54 this week, but he is far from his country's only footballing golden oldie. 650 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. File picture afp
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