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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + India sends more troops to tense China border + China cancels flights as virus fears grow + NKorea threatens to beef up military at DMZ + Premier League returns after coronavirus exile + Putin protected by 'disinfection tunnel' India-China-conflict,WRAP NEW DELHI India sends hundreds of extra troops to the Chinese border, sources tell AFP, after the deadliest clashes in more than 50 years between the two Asian giants leaves 20 Indian soldiers dead in hand-to-hand brawls with fists, rocks and clubs. 650 words 1030 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: India-China-conflict,FOCUS Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING China closes schools in Beijing and restricts air travel from the capital to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections, as India's death toll spikes. 650 words 1200 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng, with AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic NKorea-SKorea-diplomacy-defence,WRAP SEOUL North Korea threatens to bolster its military presence in and around the Demilitarized Zone, a day after blowing up its liaison office with the South, prompting sharp criticism from Seoul. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: NKorea-SKorea-diplomacy-politics-nuclear Fbl-health-virus-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON The Premier League makes its eagerly anticipated return after 100 days in lockdown, with Manchester City's clash against Arsenal taking centre stage at the start of a frenetic dash to finish the season. 600 words 1030 GMT by Steve Griffiths. File picture Health-virus-Russia-politics-Putin MOSCOW Visitors meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at his country residence must first pass through a walk-through device that sprays them with disinfectant, to protect him from the coronavirus, officials say. 400 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Iraq-Turkey-conflict-Kurds,WRAP ANKARA Turkey launches an air and ground offensive in northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, in a move likely to increase friction between Ankara and Baghdad. 400 words 1230 GMT by Raziye Akkoc. Video Syria-conflict-US-sanctions,Q&A BEIRUT The United States is imposing new sanctions this week against the Syrian government over alleged crimes during the nine-year civil war just as Damascus hopes to launch post-conflict reconstruction. How will the sanctions affect Syria? 700 words moved by Rouba El Husseini. Picture. Video Also moved: Syria-conflict,FACTS Syria-conflict,CHRONO Lebanon-politics-currency-poverty,SCENE TRIPOLI, Lebanon Ahlam had made it across the sea to a better life in Europe, but her son's death forced her back home to Lebanon's impoverished Tripoli and now a raging economic crisis. 750 words 1030 GMT by Jana Dhaiby. Video. Picture Iraq-economy-politics,FOCUS BAGHDAD Like she had done for years, Nisrine Saleh went to the bank to withdraw her monthly state pension. But this time, the $920 disbursement was more than $100 short, a fate shared by nearly one million Iraqi retirees. 800 words moved by Ammar Karim Health-virus-Algeria-science,INTERVIEW ALGIERS Algerian biomedical researcher and pro-democracy activist Asma Mechakra pleads for "respect" for all living beings and the Earth after the COVID-19 pandemic. 500 words 1300 GMT by Salsabil Chellali and Philippe Agret. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-racism-UN,WRAP GENEVA The UN Human Rights Council launches an urgent debate on "systemic racism" and police violence in the United States and beyond following the death of George Floyd, which triggered protests around the world. 600 words 1100 GMT by Robin Millard US-politics-unrest-racism-police,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump responds to nationwide anger at racism and deadly police violence with measures aimed at reforming police forces, including a push to end dangerous choke holds during arrests. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video US-politics-diplomacy-books-Bolton-lawsuit,3ndlead WASHINGTON The Trump administration files a lawsuit seeking to prevent publication of former national security advisor John Bolton's book, which is expected to provide a damning insider portrait of the White House. 600 words moved. File picture US-politics-democracy-Facebook-Zuckerberg SAN FRANCISCO Facebook says it will block ads from foreign state media during the US election, as well as allowing users to hide all paid-for political messages. 550 words moved Health-virus-US-IT-transport,FOCUS WASHINGTON Electric bikes and scooters, dismissed before the pandemic as a curiosity or nuisance, are getting fresh traction in cities seeking new transportation options as they emerge from lockdowns. 750 words moved by Rob Lever US-crime-racism-death,SCENE PALMDALE, California For Shawna Green and many other residents of Palmdale, a city in California's Mojave Desert, there is no question that Robert Fuller's death was racially motivated. 750 words moved by Javier Tovar. Pictures. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa-doctors,FOCUS LAGOS Health workers toiling on the frontline across Africa say they are facing rising infections, shortages of protective equipment and growing strains as they battle the coronavirus. 800 words 1100 GMT by Joel Olatunde Agoi and Susan Njanji -- EUROPE -- Poland-politics-homosexuality-Jews,FOCUS WARSAW Poland's ruling conservative nationalists are deplying anti-gay and and anti-Semitic rhetoric in an attempt to prop up President Andrzej Duda's flagging campaign ahead of an election this month. 600 words 1330 GMT by Stanislaw Waszak -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China BEIJING Beijing's airports cancel two-thirds of all flights and schools in the Chinese capital are closed again as authorities rush to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to a wholesale food market. 500 words moved. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-China-Beijing,Q&A Health-virus-India,2ndlead NEW DELHI India's official coronavirus death toll leaps by more than 2,000 as the hard-hit country struggles to contain a ballooning health crisis that has overwhelmed hospitals. 450 words moved. Picture Also moved: India-economy-health-virus-media HongKong-China-politics-unrest,lead HONG KONG China's planned national security law for Hong Kong could allow for extraditions to the mainland, the city's sole representative to Beijing's top lawmaking body says. 350 words moved -- SCIENCE -- Science-oceans-limpets PARIS Limpets -- those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps -- have had the experts fooled all along: their prodigious bonding power in fact comes from mucus, not muscles. 450 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Picture Science-animals-chimpanzees PARIS Do you speak chimp? Among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, scientists for the first time have concluded that humans can tell when a chimpanzee is happy, sad, angry or scared -- simply by listening to their cries. 300 words 1100 GMT -- SPORT -- Athletics-USA-doping-Coleman,3rdlead LOS ANGELES Reigning world 100m champion Christian Coleman is provisionally suspended over a missed drugs test, putting him at risk of a two-year ban that would rule him out of next year's Tokyo Olympics. 600 words moved by Rob Woollard. File picture Tennis-US-Open-health-virus,WRAP NEW YORK The US Open tennis championships will go ahead as scheduled in August but without spectators, officials confirm, after weeks of uncertainty surrounding the tournament staged in the epicenter of the US coronavirus crisis. 500 words moved afp
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