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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump launches battleground state swing + Battle lines drawn over Trump top court pick + Fighting in Karabakh despite ceasefire deal + Nobel Economics Prize for auction theorists + North Pole mission back from 'dying Arctic' US-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump, trailing Democrat Joe Biden by double digits in the polls with the election just three weeks away, returns to the campaign trail after being hospitalized for coronavirus, setting off on a blitz of key swing states. 750 words 1930 GMT by Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote-court,WRAP WASHINGTON A divided US Senate draws battle lines over the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett , President Donald Trump's pick to fill a key Supreme Court vacancy, as protesters face off outside a hearing slammed as "reckless" amid a pandemic. 750 words 1930 GMT by Michael Mathes. Graphic. Picture. Video. Live video Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict,WRAP STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan Russia urgeds Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately start observing a ceasefire agreed over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as intense fighting between the two Caucasus rivals casts fresh doubt over the accord. 800 words moved by Aris Messinis with Dmitry Zaks in Barda. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-refugees,SCENE Nobel-economics,WRAP STOCKHOLM US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson win the Nobel Economics Prize for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies, the Nobel Committee says. 750 words moved by Marc Preel and Johannes Ledel. Video. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Nobel-science-economics-literature-women,FACTS Germany-science-Arctic-environment,WRAP BREMERHAVEN, Germany Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole return to Germany, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades. 750 words moved by Patrick Stollarz with Yannick Pasquet in Berlin. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-media-disinformation,FOCUS WASHINGTON A series of fast-paced, colorful and straight-talking public service announcements aim to arm US voters against false information, which has plagued the presidential election campaign. 700 words 1930 GMT by Ian Timberlake US-vote-mail-fraud-law,FOCUS WASHINGTON Some 50,000 erroneous ballots in Ohio illustrate a surge of problems with voting by mail in the US election and fuel President Donald Trump's attacks on the practice. 650 words 2100 GMT by Paul Handley -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-demonstration-police,WRAP MINSK Belarus threatens to fire on protesters to break up demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko, as EU foreign ministers agree to impose sanctions personally targeting the strongman leader. 750 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson orders pubs in Liverpool to shut as part of a new strategy to tackle a surge in coronavirus cases, as staff at three field hospitals across the country were told to prepare for a wave of admissions. 650 words moved by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Vatican-religion-pope-Australia-Pell,WRAP VATICAN CITY Pope Francis meets Australian Cardinal George Pell for the first time since he was jailed -- and then acquitted -- on child sex abuse charges. 500 moved by Ella Ide. Picture. Video Greece-trial-politics-farright-GoldenDawn-racism,WRAP ATHENS A Greek court rejects calls for leniency for the leaders of notorious Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, paving the way for sentences of up to 15 years after a five-year trial. 650 words moved by John Hadoulis. Picture. Video Poland-Germany-Britain-history-WWII-bomb,WRAP WARSAW Hundreds of residents have been evacuated as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea. 600 words moved by Stanislaw Waszak. Picture Ireland-France-Britain-court-extradition-murder,2ndlead DUBLIN Ireland's High Court rejects a third attempt by the French authorities to extradite a British man in connection with a long-running unsolved murder case. 450 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-politics-crime-racism,WRAP JOHANNESBURG South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa calls for calm, hoping to tamp down rising racial tension in his country following months of protests by white farmers over a spike in deadly attacks. 650 words moved. Picture Nigeria-unrest-demonstration-police LAGOS Thousands of people take to the streets in Nigeria as pressure mounts on the government to follow through on a promise to disband a feared police unit, leaving two more demonstrators dead. 500 words moved by Sophie Bouillon -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-Turkey-Kurds-anniversary,FOCUS HASAKEH, Syria The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. 700 words moved by Delil Suleiman. Picture. Video Also moved: Syria-conflict-fires,SCENE -- ASIA -- Vietnam-Britain-migration,FOCUS NGHE AN, Vietnam Le Minh Tuan has curled up in the bed of his deceased son every night since the young man suffocated in a truck in Britain alongside dozens of other Vietnamese migrants one year ago. 700 words moved by Tran Thi Minh Ha. Picture. Video Japan-weather-flood-typhoon,FOCUS KASUKABE, Japan It has been called Japan's underground "Parthenon", a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. 650 words moved by Shingo Ito. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY -- US-EU-technology-digital-tax-OECD,WRAP PARIS The 137 nations trying to hammer out a new global standard for taxing multinational tech firms will not secure a deal by the end of this year as hoped, the OECD says. 650 words moved by Eve Szeftel and Joseph Schmid -- SPACE -- Science-space-star-black-hole PARIS Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our Sun, releasing images showing the devastating process in unprecedented detail. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey. Picture -- SPORTS -- Tennis-FRA-Open-ESP-Nadal-health-virus,INTERVIEW PARIS When Rafael Nadal beat the Argentinian Mariano Puerta in four sets to win his first major title at the French Open back in 2005, no one had any idea that it was the start of one of the most remarkable winning sequences in any sport. 600 words moved by Pablo Melian. Picture. Graphic afp
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