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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0683 -- TOP STORIES -- + As Europe repoens, India nears 20 mn Covid cases + Germany smashes 400,000-member child porn network + Fortnite-maker Epic and Apple trade barbs in court + French troops to avoid trial over Rwanda massacre + Time at the bar: Germany cancels Oktoberfest again Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India's total Covid-19 caseload nears 20 million, in stark contrast to gradual reopenings in Europe and other wealthier parts of the world where rapid vaccination programmes have helped keep new cases down. 750 words 2000 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Germany-crime-pornography-children,WRAP BERLIN German police say they have shut down "one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world" and arrested four of its members in a series of raids in mid-April. 500 words moved by Kit Holden US-IT-court-antitrust-Apple,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Fortnite maker Epic Games and Apple clash in court at the opening of a blockbuster trial on the iPhone maker's App Store with potentially big implications for the world of mobile tech, trading barbs over alleged monopolistic actions and what is best for consumers. 750 words 2100 GMT by Glenn Chapman Also moved: US-internet-Apple-Epic,FACTS France-Rwanda-genocide-history,WRAP PARIS Members of the French armed forces deployed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide are set to avoid any trial after prosecutors recommended that judges drop a case accusing them of complicity in crimes against humanity over their inaction in a massacre. 700 words moved by Eleonore Dermy. File picture. Graphic Health-virus-Germany-festival,2ndlead BERLIN Germany is cancelling its iconic Oktoberfest beer festival for the second year running due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bavaria's state premier Markus Soeder says. 500 words moved by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Gabon-fbl-poverty,FOCUS LIBREVILLE At 28, when he should have been at the peak of his sporting career, professional football player Gamamba Souleimane has traded the ball for a paint roller and his cleats for work boots. 750 words moved by Adrien Marotte. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India NEW DELHI India's total Covid caseload nears 20 million as oxygen shortages in hospitals exacerbate a devastating second wave and much-needed foreign assistance continues to pour in. 550 words moved. Picture. Graphic Health-virus-vaccines-Covax-G7,3rdlead GENEVA The WHO pleads with the G7 to dig deep and fund the global Covid-19 recovery, warning the crisis cannot be resolved worldwide if they do not step up. 700 words moved by Robin Millard. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Germany-festival,2ndlead Health-virus-EU-vaccines-travel,lead Health-virus-vaccines-BioNTech-Pfizer-children,lead -- AMERICAS -- Britain-US-G7-diplomacy-NKorea,WRAP LONDON Secretary of State Antony Blinken asks North Korea to embrace diplomacy as he briefed allies on a new US strategy that stresses low-key progress rather than Donald Trump's pageantry. 650 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Picture. Video US-gender-justice-sports LOS ANGELES A federal appeals court is to examine a law obanning transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, an issue which has become highly politicized in the United States. 600 words 2330 GMT by Laurent Banguet with Charlotte Plantive in Washington. File picture Colombia-protest-taxation,WRAP BOGOTA Soldiers patrol the streets as Colombia counts the cost of days of violence that has seen 17 people killed and hundreds wounded in clashes with security forces over government tax policy. 500 words 1930 GMT by Lina Vanegas. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-NIreland-politics-history,WRAP BELFAST Northern Ireland marks its centenary, with coronavirus restrictions, simmering post-Brexit unrest and a leadership crisis marring the anniversary in the British-ruled province. 750 words moved by Paul Faith with Joe Stenson in Dublin. Picture. File video. Graphic Russia-France-history-Napoleon,FOCUS MOSCOW Two hundred years after his death in exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, some Russians hail Napoleon Bonaparte as political and military genius, not an invader whose advance saw Muscovites torch their own city before fleeing. 700 words moved by Marina Lapenkova. Picture. Video Also moved: France-history-politics-Napoleon-Macron -- MIDEAST -- Iraq-conflict-US-rockets,2ndlead BAGHDAD Six rockets are fired towards Iraq's Balad airbase north of Baghdad, lightly wounding a foreign contractor working for a US company, a security source tells AFP. 400 words by 1930 GMT. Israel-Palestinians-conflict-politics,FOCUS GAZA CITY Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's decision to indefinitely postpone elections could rekindle tensions between his secular Fatah movement and Hamas Islamists, piling pressure on Abbas to set a new timeline for a vote, experts say. 600 words moved by Adel Zaanoun -- AFRICA -- Chad-politics-unrest,INTERVIEW N'DJAMENA Almost two weeks after Chad was thrown into crisis by the shock death of its veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno, ex-president Goukouni Weddeye calls for a "round table" -- with a place for the insurgents -- that would frame the country's future. 650 words moved. File picture. Video -- ASIA -- Bangladesh-accident,2ndlead DHAKA At least 26 people are killed in the latest maritime disaster to hit Bangladesh, as a speedboat carrying at least 30 people collides with a vessel transporting sand. 400 words moved. Graphic -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-IT-lifestyle-Verizon-Yahoo,WRAP WASHINGTON Faded internet stars Yahoo and AOL are sold to a private equity firm for $5 billion by telecom giant Verizon, which ends its online media ambitions. 550 words moved by Rob Lever Britain-US-finance-television-investments-minorities,INTERVIEW LONDON As one of the few black venture capitalists, Eric Collins is on a mission to prop up people facing "tough odds" to run businesses in Europe: Women and ethnic minorities. 700 words moved by Veronique Dupont. Picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-supporters-Glazers,FOCUS LONDON A dramatic protest by angry Manchester United supporters that forced the postponement of a Premier League clash against historic rivals Liverpool was the result of a long-running feud with the club's American owners, the Glazer family. 700 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-politics-Fbl-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-Liverpool-fans-police,lead afp
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