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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Eight killed in Atlanta-area spa shootings + AstraZeneca vaccine pros outweigh risks: EU + Intense clashes in Myanmar's biggest city + Uber grants British drivers worker status + Spike Lee to head Cannes Film Festival jury US-shootings-spa,WRAP ATLANTA Eight people -- the majority of them Asian women -- are killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia, with a 21-year-old white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police say. 700 words 0630 GMT by Elijah Nouvelage with Camille Camdessus in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The EU's medicines regulator says it is "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's jab outweigh potential risks, insisting there is no evidence linking it to blood clots after several nations suspended the shot over health fears. 850 words moved by Nina Larson, with Danny Kemp in The Hague and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-pharmaceutical-vaccines,Q&A Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Plumes of smoke rise above streets in Myanmar's biggest city following intense clashes between anti-coup protesters and security forces. 550 words by 0600 GMT. Photo. Video. Graphic. Britain-transport-technology-business-Uber,WRAP LONDON Uber says it is granting its UK drivers worker status, with benefits including a minimum wage -- a world first for the US ride-hailing giant. 500 words moved by Ben Perry Entertainment-France-film-festival,WRAP PARIS US director Spike Lee will head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in July, organisers say, making him the first black person to take on the role. 600 words moved by Francois Becker. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- NMacedonia-law-drugs-cannabis,FEATURE SKOPJE After receiving a suspended sentence for possession of cannabis last year, Filip Dostovski walked out of the Skopje courthouse and lit a joint outside as cameras rolled. 1000 words 0530 GMT by Sally Mairs and Darko Duridanski. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Brazil-politics,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Gone are the days when Covid-19 was a "little flu": Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has changed his pandemic-skeptic tune lately, sacking his widely criticized health minister, ordering millions of vaccines and even wearing a mask. 800 words 0530 GMT by Louis Genot. File picture. File video Health-virus-US-children,FOCUS WASHINGTON Drugmaker Moderna says it has started Covid-19 vaccine trials for thousands of children aged under 12 years, a first step towards a new phase of the immunization campaign experts say might be necessary to stamp out the pandemic. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-bank-rate WASHINGTON The US central bank has made it clear it is too soon to think about pulling back on stimulus for the pandemic-battered economy, but finds itself stuck between an improving outlook and inflation fears. 450 words 0530 GMT by Heather Scott. US-pharma-addiction-bankrupcy-Purdue,WRAP WASHINGTON The addiction to opioid sales that made vast sums for Purdue Pharma now spells the end of the company, and the Sackler family has offered to pay billions to settle lawsuits over the company's role in the overdoes crisis that swept the country. 550 words moved Cuba-politics-US-Vietnam-diplomacy,FOCUS HAVANA Cuba will emerge from the April congress of its all-powerful Communist Party without a Castro at the helm for the first time in over 60 years. 750 words moved by Carlos Batista. Picture. File picture US-politics-immigration,FOCUS BROWNSVILLE, Texas In a gusty, open-air bus depot in Brownsville, Texas, Febe Carillo-Ramos speaks easily after a journey of hundreds of miles from her home in Guatemala: for the first time in 20 days on the road, she can now move without worry. 900 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-Myanmar-unrest-economy,FOCUS BANGKOK Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law -- Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, a country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia, but which is now fast unravelling. 850 words moved by Aidan Jones -- EUROPE -- France-court-assault,WRAP PARIS France's top appeals court is set to decide if three firefighters facing sexual abuse allegations should have been charged with rape, in a case that has ignited a national debate about consent. 500 words moved by Clara Wright and Clare Byrne Netherlands-vote,WRAP THE HAGUE Dutch voters are to cast their ballots at bike-through polling stations and museums on the final day of a coronavirus-dominated election that could return Prime Minister Mark Rutte to power. 600 words moved Also moving: Netherlands-politics-vote-Rutte,PROFILE Netherlands-politics-vote,FACTS France-politics-justice-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just two weeks after a landmark conviction for corruption. 650 words moved by Joseph Schmid Health-virus-Ireland-pubs,SCENE DUBLIN The cellar of The Temple Bar in central Dublin would normally be stacked head-high with enough kegs of Guinness to serve thousands of pints to revellers toasting Ireland's patron saint. Not so, this year. 700 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video France-lifestyle-wine-cannabis,FOCUS BORDEAUX, France A young entrepreneur has launched France's first wine infused with a cannabis extract in the heart of the Bordeaux wine-growing region, hoping to shake up traditions and score with millennials. 550 words moved by Leo Pierrard with Thais Moulie in Paris Spain-euthanasia-law,FOCUS A POBRA DO CARAMINAL, Spain In 1998 Ramona Maneiro helped her friend Ramon Sampedro, paralysed from the neck down following an accident, to die, a tale told in the Oscar-winning Spanish film "The Sea Inside". 675 words 0530 GMT by Thomas Perroteau with Daniel Bosque. Pictures. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-vote-Michaeli,PROFILE JERUSALEM Israel's Merav Michaeli, the feminist now leading Labor, says she is hoping to bring the party back from the brink of extinction in elections next week. 400 words moved by Stephen Weizman. File Picture. File Video Lebanon-politics-economy,Q&A BEIRUT Lebanon's worst economic downturn in decades has pushed a battered population to the brink with no solution in sight as the country's barons wrangle over forming a new government. 750 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal. File Picture Also moved: Lebanon-politics-economy,FACTS -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest-Britain-children,WRAP LONDON Children as young as 11 have been targeted by violence and beheaded in a jihadist insurgency in northeast Mozambique, the charity Save the Children says in a new report. 500 words moved by Callum Paton. File pictures. Graphic Ghana-girls-education-pregnancy-health-virus,FOCUS ACCRA Gifty Nuako has just turned 18, an age when a young person stands on the threshold of life. Instead, her future looks bleak. 650 words moved by Marine Jeannin -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-Syria-film,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Shamima Begum, the teenage "ISIS bride" who left Britain for Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State group, is part of a documentary premiering at the online Texas-based South By Southwest festival. 800 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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