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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Ghana gets first shots from global Covax scheme + Germany convicts Syrian in 'historic' torture trial + Tiger Woods' crash injuries cast doubt on future + Police seize Europe's biggest-ever cocaine haul + Springsteen fined for national park tequila tipple Health-virus,WRAP ACCRA Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines from Covax, paving the way for poorer nations to catch up with inoculation drives in the developed world to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words 2000 GMT by Kent Mensah, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Syria-conflict-Germany-trial-warcrimes,WRAP KOBLENZ, Germany A former Syrian intelligence service agent is sentenced to four and a half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity in the first court case over state-sponsored torture by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. 700 words moved by Yannick Pasquet. Picture. Video. Live video Golf-USPGA-Woods-accident,WRAP LOS ANGELES US golf legend Tiger Woods is recovering in hospital after surgery for serious leg injuries sustained in a car crash that have raised fears for the 45-year-old's career. 800 words 2100 GMT by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Golf-USPGA-Woods,PROFILE Golf-USPGA-Woods,REAX Golf-USPGA-Woods,FACTS Germany-Belgium-Netherlands-crime-drugs,2ndlead BERLIN Investigators have seized 23 tonnes of cocaine in a record haul of the drug in Europe, with a street value of billions of euros, German customs say. 400 words moved. Picture Entertainment-US-music-court-Springsteen,WRAP NEW YORK Bruce Springsteen has been fined $540 after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a national recreation area where drinking is banned, a federal judge rules. 550 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mozambique-unrest-migration,SCENE CHIURE, Mozambique It's been six months since Idrisse Saha Cachimo fled his Macomia village in terror-stricken northern Mozambique. Now, safely resettled miles away, the homesick 61-year-old vows he is dying to return home. 600 words moved by Emidio Jozine and Alfredo Zuniga. Picture. Video Yemen-conflict,FOCUS MARIB, Yemen As the sound of gunshots and explosions grew closer, Mahfouz Ahmed knew to scoop up his children and run again, before getting caught in the line of fire between Yemen's warring sides. 750 words moved by Nabil al-Awzari with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Ukraine-vaccines KIEV Ukraine launches a nationwide campaign to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, following delays that sparked anger against the government in one of Europe's poorest countries. 650 words moved by Olga Shylenko and Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture. Video SAfrica-budget-health-virus CAPE TOWN South Africa announces plans to allocate more than $690 million in public funds for the purchase of vaccines, as the continent's most industrialised economy grapples to recover from coronavirus and a pre-pandemic recession. 650 words 2000 GMT. Video Guinea-health-virus-Ebola,FOCUS NZEREKORE, Guinea Guinea has reacted rapidly to its recent outbreak of Ebola virus, with health authorities tracing contact cases and launching a vaccination campaign in both the capital and rural areas this week. 500 words 1930 GMT by Mouctar Bah and Carol Valade. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-rights-UN-diplomacy,WRAP GENEVA The United States is seeking a return to the UN Human Rights Council, three years after former president Donald Trump's administration withdrew, the US top diplomat tells the rights body. 650 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture. Video Venezuela-EU-politics-diplomacy-sanctions,WRAP CARACAS Venezuela expels the European Union's ambassador in response to new sanctions, giving the Portuguese envoy 72 hours to leave the country and raising the bloc's renewed ire. 500 words moved. Picture. Video Ecuador-prison-riots,lead CUENCA, Ecuador The body count from simultaneous riots at four prisons in Ecuador rises as family members claim the remains of loved ones lost in hours of full-out gang warfare. 550 words 2100 GMT by Rodrigo Matute. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Mexico-drugs-Coronel,FOCUS NEW YORK Emma Coronel Aispuro's resume is dense: model, social media influencer and fashion designer, small-town beauty queen at 17, wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman a year later. Now she adds detained drug trafficking suspect to that portfolio. 600 words 2000 GMT by Laura Bonilla. File Picture -- EUROPE -- Spain-politics-history-Franco MADRID Spain's north African enclave of Melilla has removed the country's last public statue of former dictator General Francisco Franco 45 years after his death. 400 words moved. File picture -- AFRICA -- Niger-vote,WRAP NIAMEY Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane claims he has narrowly won Niger's presidential elections, as fresh violence erupts a day after official results gave victory to his rival by a wide margin. 600 words moved by Boureima Hama and Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Graphic. Video Nigeria-unrest-attack,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Boko Haram jihadists attack the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing 16 people including nine children who were playing football in a field, local defence militias say. 450 words moved DRCongo-unrest-Italy-UN,WRAP ROME Italy asks the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of its ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo. 650 words moved by Alexandria Sage. Picture. Video Also moving: DRCongo-unrest-Italy,FACTS -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP BANGKOK The Myanmar junta's foreign minister visits Thailand as regional powers try to broker an end to three weeks of deadly unrest triggered by a military coup. 650 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military-economics-banking,FOCUS China-rights-Uighurs,lead BEIJING China has dramatically increased its prosecution of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang through the formal court system, handing out long prison terms for dubious charges such as "picking quarrels" and giving gifts to overseas relatives, a rights group says. 450 words moved. Video. Graphic China-social-divorce-marriage BEIJING A Chinese man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost $8,000 for years of unpaid housework, in a landmark divorce case that has sparked furious debate in China. 400 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Algeria-politics-media-rights,INTERVIEW ALGIERS Prominent Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, freed after almost a year in prison following a presidential pardon, vows to keep up the fight for the "sacred, untouchable" freedom of the press. 550 words moved by Farah Abada. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY -- US-politics-semiconductors-automobile-Biden,WRAP NEW YORK President Joe Biden orders a review of critical US supply chains in the wake of a semiconductor shortage that has forced a slowdown in US auto manufacturing. 650 words 2000 GMT by John Biers -- SCIENCE -- Dogs-humans-anthropology-genetics PARIS Scientists say they have discovered the oldest remains of a domestic dog in the Americas dating back more than 10,000 years, suggesting the animals accompanied the first waves of human settlers. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-film-Biggie,FOCUS NEW YORK The Notorious B.I.G., the slain rapper whose deep-bellied delivery made him one of the all-time greats, is the subject of an intimate new Netflix documentary. 750 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File Picture afp
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