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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + 58 killed in fire at Baghdad Covid hospital + India's capital extends lockdown as virus crisis grows + US recognises Armenian genocide, defying Turkey + Salvage operation underway for Indonesia sub + Hollywood A-listers set to reunite at Oscars Health-virus-Iraq-fire,WRAP BAGHDAD Iraqis demand officials be sacked after at least 58 people die in a fire at a Covid-19 hospital, in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure. 750 words 0930 GMT by Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj. Picture. Video. Live video. Health-virus-India,2ndlead NEW DELHI India's capital New Delhi extends its lockdown as the country's Covid-19 crisis grows, with infections and deaths hitting record highs. 650 words 1000 GMT by Glenda Kwek and Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden recognizes the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey. 850 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Maryam Harutyunyan in Yerevan. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,SCENE Indonesia-military-submarine BALI, Indonesia The hunt for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew turns into a salvage effort after recovered debris suggest it broke apart as it sank off the coast of Bali. 550 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP HOLLYWOOD It is guaranteed to be an Oscars like no other: broadcast live from a train station, honoring films few saw in movie theaters, and reuniting Hollywood's A-listers for the first time in more than a year due to Covid-19. 800 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India's capital New Delhi extends its lockdown as the country's coronavirus crisis grows, while 58 people die in a fire that ravaged a Covid-19 hospital in Baghdad. 750 words 1130 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Health-virus-vaccines-misinformation,FOCUS PARIS Anti-vaccine campaigners once confined to relatively obscure groups have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to reach a wider audience online, feeding on public fears to sow doubt about the drugs now available. 1,000 words by Marine Laouchez -- SPOTLIGHT -- Iraq-literature-Kurdistan,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Huda Kathem waits anxiously for feedback on her first novel, scrutinised by a book club in Iraqi Kurdistan's Arbil, where young authors are breathing new life into a centuries-old oral culture. 600 words moved by Qassim Khidhir. Picture. Video China-clothing-lingerie,FOCUS GUANYUN, China Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up -- so goes the street-corner discussion in Guanyun, a sleepy coastal county that for generations followed the rhythms of wheat and rice cultivation, but today concerns itself with global preferences on sensual wear. 750 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-economy-internet,FOCUS COLLE DI TORA, Italy The last time a customer tried to pay by card in Anna Rita Pani's grocery store in Colle di Tora, a small town outside Rome, things got a bit awkward. Her card reader works with wifi, but Colle di Tora is one of the least connected towns in Italy -- itself a digital laggard compared with the rest of the European Union. 600 words moved by Alvise Armellini. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Iraq-fire,FOCUS BAGHDAD The deaths of 58 people, burned or suffocated in a fire at a Baghdad Covid-19 hospital, are seen by Iraqis as more proof that mismanagement and corruption kills in their country. 600 words 1230 GMT by Ammar Karim and Sarah Benhaida. Picture. Video Yemen-conflict,WRAP DUBAI Yemen's Huthi rebels have made important gains in the battle for the government's last northern stronghold, advancing close to the centre of Marib city despite heavy casualties, military sources say. 550 words moved. Cyprus-UN-diplomacy,ADVANCER NICOSIA Four years after their last peace talks failed, rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet in Geneva next week to explore elusive "common ground" on the divided Mediterranean island. 700 moved words by Mathilde Dumazet. Picture. Video. File video -- EUROPE -- Armenia-politics-vote,WRAP YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigns while staying on in a caretaker capacity, setting the stage for a June 20 parliamentary election aimed at defusing a protracted political crisis. 500 words 1230 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video Albania-vote,WRAP TIRANA Albanians stream to polling stations for a hotly contested parliamentary vote marred by violence in the last week of campaigning. 600 words 1000 GMT by Briseida Mema and Joseph Boyle. Picture. Video Also moved: Albania-vote,PROFILE Albania-vote,FACTS France-attack-police PARIS French investigators scramble to determine why a Tunisian man unknown to intelligence services stabbed a police employee to death outside Paris, with officials vowing to step up efforts against Islamist terror attacks. 600 words 1000 GMT by Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-environment-transport-gardening-health-virus,FOCUS LONDON A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs. But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit during the pandemic. 700 words moved by Anna Mackenzie. Picture. Video Austria-cafe-elderly-social-enterprise,FOCUS VIENNA Karin Hofbauer imparts to the novice bakers gathered virtually in her kitchen the secrets of kneading shortcrust dough, and she will soon be joined by fellow grannies and grandpas from across the world in a scheme run by a Vienna cafe. 800 words moved by Denise Hruby. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Biden-100,FOCUS WASHINGTON The daily (hourly) White House melodrama of the Trump era is history, but there has been nothing quiet about Joe Biden's 100 days rush to transform the country he inherited. 900 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Also moved: US-politics-Biden-100,FACTS US-politics-immigration-Bush,FOCUS WASHINGTON Out of office for a dozen years and still castigated for his "war on terror," former US president George W Bush has resurfaced as a passionate immigration advocate just as his Republican Party careens in the opposite direction. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-unrest,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's shadow government of ousted lawmakers welcomes a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after their crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Ming Aung Hlaing. 550 words moved. File Picture. File Video. China-rights-Uyghurs-Canada,INTERVIEW OTTAWA During the decade they lived in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, Canadians Gary and Andrea Dyck had a front-row seat to Beijing's "very methodical" repression of the Uyghur people, which Canada's parliament and others have declared to be genocide. 650 words moved by Michel Comte. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- MMA-Usma-Masvidal-Namajunas-Zhang LOS ANGELES The UFC welcomes back American fans for their first live event in over a year and three of its greatest fighters -- Kamaru Usman, Rose Namajunas and Valentina Shevchenko -- rise to the occasion with stunning knockouts at UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida. 650 words moved. Picture afp
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