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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US backs plan to waive Covid vaccine patents + Facebook oversight board upholds Trump ban + SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket + Chelsea set up all-English Champions League final + Malian woman gives birth to nine babies Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's administration announces support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, offering hope to poor nations that have struggled to access the life-saving doses. 850 words 0230 GMT by Heather Scott. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-US-vaccines-patent-pharma,lead health-virus-Israel-vaccines-Pfizer US-politics-IT-Facebook-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON Facebook's independent oversight board upholds a ban on former US president Donald Trump while ordering further review of the case, in a ruling with a potentially far-reaching impact on the regulation of online speech. 900 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture Also moved: US-IT-politics-Trump,FACTS US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump,Q&A US-space-SpaceX-Starship,2ndlead WASHINGTON SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. 500 words moved Issam Ahmed Fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-ESP-Chelsea-RealMadrid,lead LONDON Chelsea set up an all-English Champions League final against Manchester City as goals from Timo Werner and Mason Mount beat Real Madrid 2-0 in a dominant display to seal a 3-1 aggregate victory at Stamford Bridge. 650 words moved by Kieran Canning. Picture Also moving: fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-ESP-Chelsea-RealMadrid-Tuchel Mali-Morocco-health-children,lead RABAT A Malian woman who gave birth to nonuplets in Morocco is "doing well" and her nine babies are being treated in incubators because of their weight, the Moroccan clinic where she delivered says Wednesday. 300 words moved. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- SKorea-music-social-entertainment-Kpop,FOCUS SEOUL Thirty teenagers, thousands of hours of training, dozens of shattered dreams: it all comes to a head next week when the Blitzers will be launched into the cut-throat K-pop market, hoping to become the next BTS. 800 words 0330 GMT by Kang Jin-kyu. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-vaccine-promotions,FOCUS WASHINGTON Free beer, free doughnuts, free baseball games and savings bonds -- government officials and businesses are teaming up to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19. 600 words moved by Cyril Julien and Chris Lefkow. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Mexico-accident-train,WRAP MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejects any link between his austerity drive and a metro line disaster that left 25 dead, as devastated families begin to bury the victims. 650 words 0200 GMT by Sofia Miselem. Picture. Video US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump-fraud,FOCUS WASHINGTON Social media has been his weapon of choice for containing Republican dissidents, but Donald Trump is seeking to tighten his iron grip on the party even after a ruling extending his ban on Facebook. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-fishing-France-Jersey,4thlead LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sends two Navy patrol vessels to Jersey over concerns that French fishermen could blockade its main port in an escalating post-Brexit row. 550 words moved Britain-G7-diplomacy,WRAP LONDON The Group of Seven wealthy democracies wrap up their first in-person meeting in more than two years, accusing China of human rights abuses and a crackdown on pro-democracy figures, while voicing fears about Russian aggression against Ukraine. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Britain-G7-diplomacy-US-Japan-SKorea,lead Britain-vote,WRAP LONDON Britain holds its first local elections since Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic, with Scotland the main focus due to calls for a new independence referendum that could reshape the country. 750 words 0200 GMT by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Graphic France-history-Napoleon-politics,WRAP PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte 200 years after his death, on an anniversary that has been dragged into a heated national debate about "cancel culture". 700 words moved by Adam Plowright. Picture. Video Also moved: France-history-Napoleon-Belgium-museum,FOCUS Romania-hunting-bears,lead BUCHAREST Romania says it is investigating the killing of a large brown bear that activists allege was illegally shot by a Liechtenstein prince during a hunt in the Carpathian Mountains. 450 words moved by Ionut Iordachescu -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is tasked to form a government, after veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu failed to cobble a coalition following a fourth inconclusive vote in under two years. 800 words moved by Ben Simon. Picture. File Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics-Lapid Saudi-Iran-Yemen-conflict-US-diplomacy,FOCUS RIYADH After years of proxy warfare, Saudi Arabia's secret talks with arch-rival Iran signal a high-wire diplomatic act as it scrambles to rein in Tehran-backed Yemeni rebels, although prospects of a breakthrough look remote. 700 words 0200 GMT by Anuj Chopra Jordan-drought-climate-Israel,FOCUS GHOR AL-HADITHA, Jordan Ahmad Daoud surveys his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world's most arid countries is hitting hard. 700 words 0200 GMT by Kamal Taha. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICC-Uganda-warcrimes-Ongwen-LRA,WRAP THE HAGUE International Criminal Court will sentence a child soldier-turned-Lord's Resistance Army commander for a litany of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda. 500 words 0200 GMT by Danny Kemp. File picture SAfrica-politics-parties-ANC,WRAP JOHANNESBURG South Africa's governing ANC party suspends its secretary general, Elias "Ace" Magashule, over graft charges in a move seen as a political victory for President Cyril Ramaphosa in the divided party. 650 words moved. File picture Nigeria-unrest-students,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Nearly 30 abducted Nigerian college students are freed, government officials say, two months after heavily armed gunmen kidnapped them in the north of the country. 450 words moved by Aminu Abubakar SAfrica-royals-people-Zulu,lead JOHANNESBURG Mourners in leopardskin regalia gather outside a Johannesburg morgue to accompany the body of the late Zulu regent queen, whose sudden death last week came less than two months after that of her husband. 400 words moved. Picture Mali-France-media-kidnapping,WRAP BAMAKO A French journalist says he was kidnapped in Mali by a jihadist group with links to Al-Qaeda, according to a video circulating on social media, the latest foreigner to be taken hostage in the West African country. 650 words moved by Serge Daniel. Picture. File picture. Video Also moved: Mali-France-media-kidnapping,FACTS -- CLIMATE -- Climate-Greenland-Antarctica-glaciers-oceans-warming,lead PARIS Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could halve how much sea levels rise due to melting ice sheets this century, according to a major new study modelling how Earth's frozen spaces will respond to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. 700 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic Germany-climate-politics-environment,WRAP BERLIN The German government says it will set more ambitious targets to reduce CO2 emissions after a landmark ruling by the country's top court declared a flagship climate protection law "insufficient". 600 words moved by Kit Holden. File picture -- SCIENCE -- Science-archaeology-anthropology-burial-Africa,FOCUS PARIS A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers report. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Picture -- CULTURE -- France-ElSalvador-history-literature PARIS It was a romance that helped inspire one of the great works of 20th-century fiction and a bitter conflict between his heirs, but a new book of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's love letters suggests a reconciliation may finally have been achieved. 650 words moved by Hugues Honore afp
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