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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump, Biden head into first debate + Kuwait enters 40-day mourning for emir + Extra vaccines secured for world's poorest + Armenia accuses Turkey of downing warplane + US astrophysicists weigh the universe US-vote,WRAP CLEVELAND, Ohio Frontrunner Joe Biden and an increasingly struggling Donald Trump trade jabs hours ahead of a first presidential debate that promises to be as nasty and unpredictable a clash as American voters have ever seen. 700 words 2000 GMT by Saul Loeb with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture Also moving: US-debate-vote-Biden,PROFILE US-debate-vote-Trump,PROFILE Moved: US-vote-politics-debate,FOCUS US-vote-taxation-Trump,Q&A US-vote-debate-Wallace,PROFILE Kuwait-politics-emir,WRAP KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the architect of the nation's modern foreign policy and mediator in some of the worst crises to grip the Gulf, dies at the age of 91. 500 words 1930 GMT by Salima Lebel. File picture. File video Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual Covid-19 vaccines will be secured for poorer countries in 2021, health groups announce, as the virus shows no sign of receding after claiming more than one million lives around the world. 750 words moved by Nina Larson and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP YEREVAN Armenia says that a Turkish fighter jet shot down one of its warplanes during heavy fighting with Turkey's ally Azerbaijan, but Ankara fiercely denies the claim. 850 words 1930 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan with Emil Guliyev in Baku. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,CHRONO Science-US-cosmology-Universe,FOCUS WASHINGTON A team of US astrophysicists has produced what they say is the most accurate measure ever for the total amount of matter in the Universe, a long-held goal that could help scientists untangle the mysteries of the cosmos. 600 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed -- EUROPE -- Britain-Brexit-trade-EU,WRAP LONDON British parliamentarians vote on a bill to regulate the UK's internal market after Brexit, likely defying a looming EU ultimatum as the two sides enter a final week of tense talks. 650 words 2100 GMT by Jitendra Joshi and Alice Ritchie with Alex Pigman in Brussels EU-Hungary-politics-law,WRAP BRUSSELS The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen stands by her vice-president Vera Jourova, after Hungary's hardline prime minister Viktor Orban demands her resignation. 550 words moved by Anne-Laure Mondesert, with Peter Murphy in Budapest. Video. Picture Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP LONDON Britain and Canada become the first major nations to slap sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over the country's seething political crisis. 700 words moved by Phil Hazlewood with Laurence Benhamou in Vilnius. Picture. Video Europe-migrants-France-camp,lead CALAIS, France French police dismantle a camp of about 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling "Jungle" shantytown was broken up four years ago. 650 words moved by Elia Vaissiere and Bernard Barron. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Australia-Vatican-religion-pope,WRAP SYDNEY Cardinal George Pell will return to Rome from Australia for the first time since being jailed -- and then acquitted -- on child sex abuse charges, an aide said. 550 words moved. File video. File picture Health-virus-China,FOCUS BEIJING A Chinese company enters the global race to help defeat the coronavirus, promising its testing machine will return results faster than a lab and more reliably than at-home screening kits. 400 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. Photo. Video Also moved: Health-virus-SKorea-festival,FOCUS -- MIDEAST -- Kuwait-politics-emir,OBIT KUWAIT CITY The Arab "dean of diplomacy", Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah survived Kuwait's toughest moments with an iron hand and a reputation as a shrewd, unshakeable monarch. 800 words moved Also moving: Kuwait-politics,CHRONO Israel-conflict-Lebanon-Iran UNITED NATIONS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Lebanon's Hezbollah of manufacturing weapons next to a "gas station" in Beirut, warning of "another tragedy" if it explodes. 500 words 1930 GMT. Picture Iraq-politics-protest,FOCUS BAGHDAD Back in October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq's ruling class. One year on, with a new government in place and nearly 600 protesters killed, almost nothing has changed. 800 words moved by Maya Gebeily and Sarah Benhaida. File picture. File video Also moved: Iraq-politics-protest,CHRONO -- ENVIRONMENT -- France-animals-fashion-circuses-mink,WRAP PARIS France says it will "gradually" ban mink farms, as well as the use of wild animals in travelling circuses as well as the breeding of dolphins and orcas in theme parks. 550 words moved by Stephane Orjollet and Fiachra Gibbons. File picture Environment-animal-reptile-pet-trade-conservation PARIS More than a third of reptile species are bought and sold online in often-unregulated international trade, researchers say, warning of the impact on wild populations of a pet market that puts a bounty on rare and newly discovered animals. 700 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic -- SPORTS -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Second seed Karolina Pliskova ends Mayar Sherif's fairytale Grand Slam breakthrough to set up a Roland Garros second round clash against former champion Jelena Ostapenko as world number one Novak Djokovic pledges to be on his best behaviour on his return to the majors after his US Open brain fade. 600 words moved by Dave James. Picture Basket-NBA,PREVIEW ORLANDO, United States LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers begin the final challenge in their bid to return to the summit of basketball when they take on the Miami Heat team in game one of the NBA Finals. 750 words moved -- BUSINESS AND TECH -- Health-virus-Ethiopia-aviation,INTERVIEW ADDIS ABABA Six months since the coronavirus pandemic upended the global airline industry, Ethiopian Airlines is facing a heavy toll: more than $1 billion in lost revenue, to say nothing of 850 infected employees. 750 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. File Picture. Video China-US-internet-Sinacorp-Tencent,WRAP BEIJING The parent company of China's vast Weibo platform and one of the country's biggest search engines announce plans to delist from US stock markets in deals totalling over $6 billion as relations between Washington and Beijing grow increasingly tense. 450 words moved by Beiyi Seouw. File picture afp
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