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| - Duty Editor: Alex Nicoll Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Global virus death toll hits 1 million + US judge halts ban on TikTok downloads + Trump 'paid little tax for years': report + Armenia, Azerbaijan 'on brink of war' + NFL great Montana foils kidnap attempt Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passes one million. 850 words 0200 GMT by Simon Malfatto. Graphic. Picture. Video. Live video. US-China-IT-politics-court-TikTok,WRAP WASHINGTON A US federal judge halts a politically charged ban ordered by the Trump administration on downloads of the popular video app TikTok, hours before it was to go into effect. 500 words moved by Rob Lever US-vote-debate,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump faces allegations that he paid little or no income tax for years before he came to power, as his cloudy financial past stoke controversy ahead of the first election debate. 800 words 0300 GMT by Ben Sheppard. Picture Also moving: US-vote-debate-tax,FACTS Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict,WRAP YEREVAN Arch foes Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of initiating deadly clashes that claimed at least 23 lives over a decades-long territorial dispute and threatened to draw in regional powers Russia and Turkey. 850 words 0230 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan with Emil Guliyev in Baku. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Azerbaijan-Armenia-conflict,BACKGROUND Amfoot-NFL-Montana LOS ANGELES Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and his wife Jennifer rescue their infant grandchild from an apparent kidnapping attempt at their home in Malibu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says. 200 words moved -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-court-health-Biden,lead WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of rushing to install a new Supreme Court justice to "eliminate the entire Affordable Care Act," known as Obamacare, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. 400 words moved US-vote-politics-debate,FOCUS NEW YORK With just over a month before the US presidential election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to take the debate stage Tuesday, the first show pitting the rivals against each other that's sure to have millions of Americans glued to their screens. 800 words 0200 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. File picture US-vote-registration-sports-NBA,FOCUS CLEVELAND, Ohio New Cleveland resident Steven Catudal was eager to register to vote in his adopted state of Ohio. He found an unlikely ally to thank for smoothing that process during a turbulent election year: basketball superstar LeBron James. 750 words 0200 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture US-China-IT-TikTok,FOCUS WASHINGTON "I never thought I would have a voice, but this app has given me one and people have been listening," said Rebecca Fisher-Tringale, adding she has no doubt that TikTok will survive -- despite the Sword of Damocles that President Donald Trump has been dangling above the social network. 800 words moved by Julie Jammot -- ASIA -- Thailand-sport-health-longboard BANGKOK Cruising on an empty Bangkok highway, 63-year-old Nongluck Chairuettichai says taking up skateboarding set her on the road to recovery from breast cancer -- and she has now qualified for Thailand's national longboard team. 450 words 0330 GMT by Dene-Hern Chen. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- US-vote-politics-Germany-China,INTERVIEW BERLIN Europe and the United States need to face up to a "new Cold War with China" together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany's point man on transatlantic ties tells AFP. 650 words 0330 GMT by Deborah Cole Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusian police detain around 200 people as tens of thousands take to the streets in support of protest figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya days after the country's strongman president staged a secret inauguration. 700 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Greece-migrants ATHENS Greek officials announce the first coronavirus death in a migrant camp near Athens, as refugee groups stepped up criticism of the containment policy of the Greek government and Europe. 550 words by Katerina Nikolopoulou. File picture. Switzerland-vote-immigration-EU-politics,WRAP GENEVA Swiss voters reject efforts to slash immigration from the EU, leaving free movement in the heart of Europe intact, and embrace offering paid paternity leave for the first time. 650 words moved by Nina Larson. File Picture. File Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Turkey-Kurds-water-history-tourism,FOCUS HASANKEYF, Turkey Just two roofs poke through the vast expanse of an artificial lake that has swallowed a Turkish town whose caves and pre-Ottoman ruins once drew in global tourists. 725 words 0300 GMT by Raziya Akkoc. Picture. Video Egypt-history,FOCUS CAIRO Fifty years since Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, controversy over the legacy of the charismatic Egyptian president who championed Arab unity lives on in Egypt as deep divisions beset the Middle East. 700 words 0300 GMT by Menna Zaki. File picture Sudan-economy-exiles,FOCUS KHARTOUM After 33 years in exile, El Sadig Mohamed gave up the easy life in Canada to return to help rebuild Sudan as it emerges from three decades of autocratic rule. 650 words 0300 GMT by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Lebanon-politics PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron ups the pressure on Lebanon's leaders to form a government in the wake of the Beirut port blast, saying their lack of progress represented a "collective betrayal". 750 words moved by Stuart Williams and Didier Lauras with Bachir El Khoury in Beirut. Picture. -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-coup-unrest-PM,2ndlead BAMAKO Mali's interim president Bah Ndaw named former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane as prime minister, opening the way for the country's neighbours to lift sanctions imposed after its August military coup. 400 words -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Roland Garros gets underway in the "ridiculous" chill and damp of Paris with Victoria Azarenka walking off court, complaining that it was "too cold" to play, before Stan Wawrinka brushes aside fellow three-time major winner Andy Murray in the day's marquee clash. 750 words moved by Dave James. Picture Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open,SCENE Auto-Prix-RUS-stewards-Hamilton-Mercedes SOCHI, Russia Lewis Hamilton accuses stewards at the Russian Grand Prix of "trying to stop me" after he was handed two five-second penalties that wrecked his hopes of a record-equalling 91st victory. 550 words moved Fbl-ESP-Liga-Messi,lead MADRID Lionel Messi scores in his first game since trying to leave Barcelona as Ronald Koeman begins his tenure as coach by overseeing a 4-0 Liga demolition of Villarreal. 600 words moved by Tom Allnutt. Picture afp
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