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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Parents plead for Belarusian journalist's release + New Congolese volcano eruption fears spark exodus + France complicit in 1994 Rwandan genocide: Macron + Planet may breach 1.5 C warming within five years + 'No one is invincible,' Rafael Nadal tells AFP Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP WARSAW The parents of a jailed Belarusian journalist plead for help as it emerges that Russia is blocking European airline flights that avoid Belarus airspace in a diplomatic battle over his arrest. 800 words 2000 GMT by Mary Sibierski. Picture. Video. Graphic DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo Tens of thousands of people flee the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, choking highways, after the local governor warned in a dawn broadcast of a possible new eruption of the volcano Mount Nyiragongo. 900 words moved by Heritier Baraka Munyampfura. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: DRCongo-volcano-gas-science,FOCUS DRCongo-volcano-Cameroon,FACTS Rwanda-France-diplomacy-genocide-history,WRAP KIGALI French President Emmanuel Macron recognises his country's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed. 800 words moved by Jerome Rivet and Simon Valmary. Picture. Video Also moved: France-Rwanda-diplomacy-genocide-history-politics,FACTS Climate-warming-WMO PARIS The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming limit goal laid out in the Paris climate deal within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global temperature trends. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey Tennis-FRA-Open-Nadal,INTERVIEW PARIS Rafael Nadal says "no-one is invincible" in an interview with AFP as he targets a 14th French Open title and record-setting 21st Grand Slam crown. 650 words moved by Elodie Soinard and Igor Gedilaghine. Video Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-draw -- SPOTLIGHT -- Montenegro-China-road-debt,FOCUS MATESEVO, Montenegro Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. 850 words moved by Olivera Nikolic. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Australia,WRAP MELBOURNE Five million people in Melbourne are ordered into a snap week-long lockdown, with officials blaming Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for yet another virus outbreak in the country's second-biggest city. 650 words moved. Graphic. Picture Health-virus-US-IT-Facebook,WRAP WASHINGTON Facebook has reversed its policy banning posts suggesting Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory amid renewed debate over the origins of the virus, raising fresh questions about social media's role in policing misinformation. 600 words moved by Rob Lever -- EUROPE -- Spain-attacks-Catalonia-trial,WRAP MADRID A Spanish court hands jail terms of up to 53 years to three men who helped the jihadists behind the 2017 Barcelona attacks that killed 16 people. 480 words moved. File picture Britain-politics-health-virus,WRAP LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denies overseeing the needless deaths of many thousands of Covid patients, after his former chief adviser alleged the government's pandemic response was undermined by lies and incompetence. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- Iran-politics-vote,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader urges voters to ignore boycott calls and turns a deaf ear to criticism over the rejection of hopefuls for next month's presidential election, a move that appears to have made ultraconservatives the front-runners. 700 words moved. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-UN-rights,WRAP GENEVA The UN Human Rights Council decides to create an open-ended international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Gaza violence, and into "systematic" abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel. 850 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US-diplomacy,Q&A Syria-conflict-Libya-Azerbaija-mercenaries BEIRUT Many of the Syrian fighters deployed, sometimes forcibly, in foreign conflict theatres such as Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh are robbed of their wages, says a newly released report. 600 words moved -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-accident-boat,WRAP NGASKI, Nigeria Nigerian rescue workers pull more than three dozen bodies from the water after an overcrowded river boat sank leaving more than 150 people missing and feared drowned. 400 words moved by Manniru Suleiman with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. Picture. Video. Graphic Mali-politics,WRAP BAMAKO The Malian military release the country's interim leaders but take control of the government in moves that have fallen far short of international demands to resolve the deep crisis. 650 words moved by Serge Daniel with Laurent Lozano in Dakar ALso moved: Mali-politics-army-unrest,PROFILE -- AMERICAS -- Mexico-vote-crime-drugs,FOCUS DOLORES HIDALGO, Mexico Every day before hitting the campaign trail, Julio Gonzalez prays he will come home alive and avoid joining the growing number of candidates murdered during another bloody Mexican election battle. 650 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video US-defence-intelligence-UFO,FOCUS WASHINGTON Are aliens watching us? That's what Americans hope to find out when a report on the US government's secret files on UFOs goes to Congress next month after years of sightings and videos suggesting that highly advanced extraterrestrials are, indeed, out there. 750 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume -- ASIA -- China-Australia-trial-espionage,WRAP BEIJING The trial of an Australian academic detained for more than two years in China on espionage charges begins behind closed doors, with Canberra voicing deep concerns over a lack of transparency after its ambassador was denied access 700 words moved by Sebestian Ricci and Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video India-politics-internet-Twitter,lead NEW DELHI India's government accuses Twitter of working to undermine its legal system, escalating a battle between authorities and social media giants over new IT rules. 550 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar. Video. File picture India-cyclone-weather,WRAP DIGHA, India Thousands of people are homeless after the latest cyclone to hit Covid-ravaged India left a trail of destruction, although timely evacuations meant the death toll was limited to single figures. 500 words moved by Dibyangshu Sarkar. Picture. Video. Graphic -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Europe-Airbus-aviation,WRAP PARIS Airbus says it will produce more single-aisle planes in 2023 than before the coronavirus crisis as the European aerospace giant sees the aviation sector ascending from the pandemic. 400 words moved by Mathieu Rabechault EU-privacy-police-computers-Clearview PARIS Privacy organisations complain to regulators in five European countries over the practices of Clearview AI, a company that has built a powerful facial recognition database using images "scraped" from the web. 500 words moved -- SPORT -- Fbl-ESP-Liga-Zidane-RealMadrid,WRAP MADRID Zinedine Zidane resigns as Real Madrid manager for the second time, just days after they were beaten to the La Liga title by Atletico Madrid. 650 words moved by Patxi Vrignon-Etxezaharreta. File Picture. File video afp
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