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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump tours key states in struggling campaign + China fetes virus success + Tackle climate or face doom, says UN + Gunfire stirs China-India blame game + Rolling Stones open London store US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump flies to Florida with promises of a quick coronavirus vaccine and a booming economic recovery, kicking off a tour of five swing states vital to his floundering reelection campaign. 500 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING China's leaders staged a triumphant ceremony to celebrate beating the coronavirus on Tuesday as billions of people around the world still suffer the fallout from the pandemic and the global death toll nears 900,000. Moved 750 words by Helen Roxburgh with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Environment-climate-UN-health-virus-diplomacy-economy,INTERVIEW LONDON World powers must pull together and retool their economies for a green future or humanity is "doomed", UN chief Antonio Guterres warns, telling AFP that failure to control the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the danger of disunity. 1,000 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic China-India-military-politics-conflict,WRAP BEIJING China says its soldiers took "countermeasures" after Indian soldiers opened fire in a contested Himalayan region, intensifying a months-long standoff that has already claimed at least 20 lives. 450 words moved Entertainment-Britain-music-RollingStones-retail LONDON The Rolling Stones defy the gloom of the coronavirus outbreak to launch the band's first flagship store, in the heart of Swinging Sixties London. 500 words moved by James Pheby. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain admits it may break international law by not applying parts of its Brexit divorce deal relating to Northern Ireland, as already tense trade talks with Brussels resume. 650 words 1500 GMT by Jitendra Joshi and Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video. Graphic Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarus says a leading opposition figure, Maria Kolesnikova, has been detained while trying to cross the Ukrainian border, but Kiev says she is being held after resisting a forced deportation. 650 words 1500 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. File Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-politics-unrest,FACTS -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-politics-rights-Britain,WRAP TEHRAN Iran tells Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held in Tehran since 2016, she faces a new indictment, dampening her supporters' hopes she will be freed anytime soon by the Islamic republic. 550 words 1530 GMT. File picture. File video Saudi-rights-politics-Khashoggi,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia seeks to turn the page on a journalist's murder with a final court ruling, but analysts say the damaging scandal that sparked global revulsion will continue to haunt the kingdom. 700 words moved by Anuj Chopra. File picture Algeria-trial-media,WRAP ALGIERS An Algerian court is due to hear an appeal by journalist Khaled Drareni against a three-year jail term handed down in a case seen as a barometer of press freedoms in the North African country. 650 words 1600 GMT by Farah Abada with Philippe Agret in Paris. Picture. Graphic. Video Lebanon-politics-Hezbollah,FOCUS BEIRUT When it comes to Lebanon, the US and France have similar outlooks, but a major difference centres on the Hezbollah movement. It is shunned by Washington but tolerated by a pragmatic leadership in Paris. 800 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal Health-virus-Egypt-plasma,FOCUS CAIRO Mohamed Fathi, an Egyptian man who has recovered from Covid-19, winces as he watches tubes running down his arm to donate blood plasma, insisting that "if I can help just one person, that's a very good thing". 750 words moved by Farid Farid. Picture. Video Iraq-Syria-olive-oil-business,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Tucked away in the rolling hills of Iraqi Kurdistan is a hidden treasure: tens of thousands of olive trees, thriving in a new homeland after being smuggled from neighbouring Syria. 600 words moved by Qassim Khidir. Picture -- AFRICA -- Niger-unrest-conservation-giraffes,FOCUS KOUREMALE, Niger One of the most famous animal sanctuaries in the Sahel faces a troubled future after suspected jihadists murdered eight people, six of them young French aid workers. 700 words moved by Boureima Hama. Pictures. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-states,FACTS WASHINGTON The US election, eight weeks from Tuesday, is boiling down to a handful of battleground states that Joe Biden needs to flip in order to snatch the White House from President Donald Trump. 600 words 1530 GMT by Michael Mathes. Graphic US-California-fire,lead NORTHFORK, California Wildfires in California have torched a record more than two million acres, the state fire department says, as smoke hampers efforts to airlift dozens of people trapped by an uncontrolled blaze. 650 words moved. Picture. Graphic -- ASIA -- Australia-China-diplomacy-media,WRAP SYDNEY Two high-profile Australian journalists flee China fearing arrest on national security charges, part of a targeted crackdown on foreign media. 600 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video Japan-politics-vote,WRAP TOKYO Japan's ruling party kicks off the race to pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successor, with his powerful right-hand man Yoshihide Suga commanding an all-but-insurmountable lead. 600 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Live video. Graphic Also moved: Japan-politics-Suga,PROFILE Myanmar-vote,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's election campaign begins with Aung San Suu Kyi's party tipped for victory, with the Nobel laureate much loved at home despite her reputation shattered overseas, although she is appealing for a landslide to counter the still mighty military. 500 words moved by Hla Hla Htay and Richard Sargent. Picture -- ECONOMY -- SAfrica-economy-recession-health-virus,WRAP PRETORIA South Africa's economy shrank by more than half in the second quarter, an unprecedented decline, as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on the continent's most industrialised state, statisticians say. 550 words 1500 GMT by Susan Njanji. File Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Mulan-China-rights,FOCUS HONG KONG Disney's "Mulan" remake is facing fresh boycott calls after it emerged that parts of the blockbuster were filmed in Xinjiang, where China is accused of committing widespread human rights abuses. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor. File picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-Open-FRA-Barty-health-virus,2ndlead SYDNEY World number one Ashleigh Barty announces she will not defend her French Open crown, citing the coronavirus fears that prompted her and several other top players to withdraw from this year's US Open. 500 words moved. File picture Cycling-Tour-FRA-2020-health-virus-politics,lead SAINT-MARTIN-DE-RE, France Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme must leave the race and quarantine for a week after testing positive for Covid-19 but all the riders were negative, organisers announced before the start of Tuesday's 10th stage. 450 words moved by Jean Montois and Damian McCall. Picture. Video. 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