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| - Duty Editor: Anita Chang Beattie Tel: Anita.beattie@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden Covid relief bill clears Senate hurdle + Pope meets top Shiite cleric on historic Iraq visit + Protesters return to Myanmar streets + Ivory Coast faces stability test in election US-politics-health-economy,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate votes to approve a $1.9 trillion relief package that President Joe Biden vows will revive the country's pandemic-stricken economy, capping hours of debate, frenzied negotiations and a marathon overnight voting session. 750 words 2000 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Vatican-pope-Iraq,WRAP BAGHDAD Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Shiite Islam's top clerics, tells Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq that the country's Christians should live in "peace". 800 words moved by Catherine Marciano and Maya Gebeily. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Vatican-pope-Iraq-Baghdad,SCENE Myanmar-politics-military-unrest YANGON Anti-coup demonstrators take to the streets of Myanmar one day after a United Nations envoy urged the Security Council to hear the nation's 'desperate pleas' and take swift action to restore democracy. 800 words moved. Graphic. Picture. Video ICoast-vote,WRAP ABIDJAN Ivory Coast holds parliamentary elections, with voters going to the polls in a key test of stability four months after a presidential vote was marked by deadly violence. 700 words 2230 GMT by Christophe Koffi and David Esnault. Picture. Video. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-Texas,SCENE HOUSTON, Texas Sipping coffee on a street in upscale Houston Heights, Evelyne Marcks shakes her head at the Texas governor's decision to scrap mask-wearing before the Covid-19 pandemic is under control: "I don't know who he is trying to please -- but it's certainly not people like us from the big cities." 500 words moved by Francois Picard. File picture. Video Health-virus-France,lead PARIS Hundreds of thousands of people in northern France go back into lockdown, as health officials step up a nationwide vaccination campaign to make up ground after a slow start. 500 words moved by Hugues Honore with Julia Pavesi in Lille. Picture Health-virus-Greenland,VIDEO ESSAY COPENHAGEN Denmark's military has started delivering Covid vaccines to remote settlements along Greenland's west coast, part of efforts to vaccinate isolated communities in the vast territory where logistics are complicated by extreme cold weather. 400 words moved Also moved: Health-virus-Spain-beach,VIDEO ESSAY -- ASIA -- Thailand-politics-royals BANGKOK Hundreds of people march through Bangkok and hold a ceremonial burning in front of a courthouse on to protest Thailand's draconian royal defamation law, which has landed leaders of a pro-democracy movement behind bars. 450 words 1430 GMT. Video. Picture -- EUROPE -- France-Britain-diplomacy-EU-Brexit,INTERVIEW PARIS Britain faces a tough challenge to retain global influence after its departure from the EU under a prime minister who has a well-known reputation for "lying", France's former ambassador to the UK tells AFP in an interview. 700 words moved by Stuart Williams and Valerie Leroux. File picture. Video. -- AFRICA -- Senegal-France-politics-protest,FOCUS DAKAR Looters hit a French retailer in Senegal's capital Dakar, after days of clashes between opposition supporters and the police, underscoring frustrations over foreign economic influence in the poor country. 700 words moved by Laurent Lozano. Picture. Video Guinea-health-virus-Ebola,INTERVIEW GENEVA As Guinea grapples with a fresh Ebola outbreak, community resistance to measures needed to rein in the deadly virus remains dangerously high, a top Red Cross official warns. 700 words moved by Nina Larson -- AMERICAS -- US-racism-police-trial-reform,FOCUS MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota George Floyd's death at the hands of a white police officer last year was a gut punch that sparked sometimes violent nationwide protests over brutality against people of color in America and a national reckoning over race relations. 850 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. File picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-WC-2022-LatAm-health-virus ASCUNCION South American football's governing body postpones the two rounds of 2022 World Cup qualifiers scheduled for the end of the month because of travel restrictions affecting European-based players. 600 words 2000 GMT afp
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