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| - Duty Editor: James Edgar Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Lava hits DR Congo city Goma after volcano erupts + 21 dead as freak weather hits China ultramarathon + Palestinians try to rebuild lives after ceasefire + Italian rockers win Eurovision in glamorous night DRCongo-volcano,WRAP COMA, DR Congo Thousands have fled after a volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo with lava from Mount Nyiragongo reaching Goma city early Sunday. 700 words 0530 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Video China-disaster-race,WRAP BEIJING Twenty-one people are killed after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100-kilometre cross-country mountain race in China, state media says. 600 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Gazans try to piece their lives back after a devastating 11-day conflict with Israel that killed more than 200 people, made thousands homeless and caused critical shortages of essential supplies in the impoverished Palestinian enclave. 800 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moving: Israel-Palestinian-conflict-Gaza-diplomacy-UN,2ndlead Entertainment-music-Eurovision-Netherlands,WRAP ROTTERDAM Italian rock foursome Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in a glammed-up message of hope for a world emerging from the coronavirus pandemic. 750 words moved by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video. Live video. -- SPOTLIGHT -- US-animal-rats-health-virus,SCENE NEW YORK Late on a Friday night, eight dog enthusiasts and their pet pooches prowl dark alleys in New York's Lower East Side with one mission: to hunt and kill as many rats as possible. 800 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-patents-WTO GENEVA Dozens of countries have revised a proposal at the WTO for patent waivers for medical tools needed to combat Covid, insisting it must be broader than just vaccines. 600 words moved by Nina Larson Also moved: Health-virus-Europe-travel,Q&A Health-virus-Germany-vaccination-companies-Evonik,FOCUS HANAU, Germany It's well before midday but chemical technician trainer Ralf Scharf is already heading to the company canteen. And lunch is the last thing on his mind. He's here to get a Covid-19 jab. 500 words moved by Jean-Philippe Lacour. Picture. Video Health-virus-Hungary-vaccine-Roma,FOCUS KISTARCSA, Hungary Hungary's Roma community has been largely left out of the country's aggressive Covid-19 immunisation rollout and been forced to fend for itself, leaders of the poverty-stricken minority say. 700 words moved by Peter Murphy. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-race-Floyd,FOCUS WASHINGTON "Day of Enlightenment." That's how the George Floyd Memorial Center wants to commemorate May 25, the anniversary of the 46-year-old Black man's death under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. File Picture US-justice-race-Floyd-family WASHINGTON With their tears, rage, dignity and solidarity, George Floyd's loved ones have become respected leaders of the fight against police brutality in the United States. 600 words moved. File Picture US-enterprises-corporate-meeting-racism-wage,FOCUS NEW YORK The killing of George Floyd prompted a wave of promises from corporate America to advance racial equity. Nearly a year later, large US companies are under pressure to show progress on fulfilling those promises. 850 words moved by John Biers US-minorities-language-deaf-IT,FOCUS WASHINGTON "English is not my first language," writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language. 700 words moved by Louis Baudoin. Picture. Health-virus-US-NewYork-leisure,FOCUS NEW YORK After 14 months of lockdown and restrictions, New Yorkers can now enjoy a city where most of these limitations have been lifted. But they are hesitant about partying and returning to the social life they enjoyed "before." 750 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture -- EUROPE -- Spain-entertainment-music-rap-pop,INTERVIEW MADRID Spanish rapper C. Tangana was taking a big risk when he started mixing old-fashioned influences like flamenco and bossa nova into his hip-hop -- but it's this eclectic sound that has turned him into a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic. 600 words moved by Thomas Perroteau. Picture. Video Britain-media-royals-Diana-BBC LONDON A former BBC chief who was criticised for his "woefully ineffective" probe into Martin Bashir's deception in securing a bombshell interview with Princess Diana resigns as chair of Britain's National Gallery. 500 words moved by James Pheby. File picture Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-children,UPDATE CEUTA, Spain Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory. 850 words moved by Hazel Ward and Noemi Gragera. Picture. Video Greece-fire,WRAP ATHENS Hundreds of firefighters battle Greece's first major forest fire of the summer as experts warn of a huge ecological disaster in a nature conservation area near Athens. 550 words moved by Marina Rafenberg. Picture. Graphic -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-politics-vote,BACKGROUND TEHRAN A presidential election in Iran next month could provide the final straw to split an already long-divided conservative political camp, after years of growing divisions. 800 words moved by Ahmad Parhizi. File Picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict-politics,FOCUS JERUSALEM After a ceasefire with Israel, Islamist group Hamas has claimed "victory" for Palestinians but the militants' success lies more in marginalising its political rival Fatah than in battle, analysts say. 750 words moved by Claire Gounon -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-Belgium-politics-history,FOCUS BRUSSELS Sixty years after Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated and dissolved in acid, former colonial power Belgium is to restore his last remains -- a single tooth -- to his family. 700 words moved by Matthieu Demesteere. Video. File picture -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-swim-CHN-Sun-doping,ADVANCER SHANGHAI Sun Yang's high-profile retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport takes place next week with the Chinese swimming star's Tokyo Olympics and his whole career hanging in the balance. 550 words moved by Peter Stebbings. File picture afp
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