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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages on + Trump org under criminal probe in NY + French cafes reopen as virus measures ease + Bitcoin tumbles below $39,000 + Naomi Campbell welcomes baby girl Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Deafening air strikes and rocket launches again shake Gaza amid an international diplomatic push for a ceasefire between Israel and Islamic armed groups after more than week of bloodshed. 850 words 1000 GMT by Sakher Abou El Oun with Jonah Mandel in Jerusalem. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Also moving: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-AlRimal,FOCUS US-politics-justice-Trump,lead NEW YORK The Trump Organization is being investigated in a "criminal capacity" by the New York state attorney general's office, a spokesman says, as prosecutors advance their probe into former president Donald Trump's business dealings. 350 words moved Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Parisians return to their beloved cafe terraces and museums after a six-month Covid-forced hiatus, a glimmer of normal life even as hard-hit India grapples with a record daily number of virus deaths. 600 words 1230 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic China-finance-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin,Lead BEIJING Bitcoin plunged below $39,000 for the first time in more than three months after China said cryptocurrencies would not be allowed in transactions and warned investors against speculative trading in them. 600 words 0930 GMT US-Britain-celebrity-fashion-Campbell-baby NEW YORK British supermodel Naomi Campbell has become the mother of a baby girl at the age of 50, she said in a surprise announcement on Instagram. 250 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-environment-Europe-US-Australia,FOCUS PARIS Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use Covid masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars. 700 words moved by Isabel Malsang, with Eleonore Sens in Trenton, New Jersey, and Andrew Leeson in Sydney. Picture. Video China-Xinjiang-politics-rights,FOCUS BEIJING She was already beyond child-bearing age but Qelbinur Sedik says Chinese authorities still forcibly sterilised her, part of what she describes as a systematic campaign to suppress births of Uyghurs and other minorities in the tense Xinjiang region. 950 words moved by Laurie Chen. Video. Picture -- ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FOCUS JENIN, Palestinian Territories Charred car tyres, shards of glass and piles of rubble lie scattered on roads winding through the occupied West Bank where one word resounds among Palestinians: "resistance". 850 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-health-virus,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Oum Jihad Ghabayin, like thousands in Gaza, has fled her home during Israeli bombing without taking any essentials -- not even her face mask to shield against the raging Covid-19 pandemic. 550 words 1200 GMT by Mai Yaghi. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lebanon-Hezbollah,FOCUS BEIRUT Israel's deadly Gaza offensive has many eyes trained on the Lebanese border for a Hezbollah reaction, but observers argue the Iran-backed armed movement is unlikely to risk an all-out conflict. 850 words moved by Hashem Osseiran. Picture. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France-culture-restaurants PARIS The French joyfully make their way back to cafes and prepared long-awaited visits to cinemas and museums as the country loosened restrictions in a return to semi-normality after over six months of Covid-19 curbs. 700 words 1200 GMT by Clare Bryne and Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-Japan-virus-health,2ndLead TOKYO Most athletes and team members staying at Tokyo's Olympic village will be vaccinated by the Games, IOC chief Thomas Bach says, as organisers try to calm fears about staging the event as coronavirus cases surge in Japan. 500 words moved. Video. Picture -- EUROPE -- Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco,WRAP CEUTA, Spain A steady stream of migrants tries to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after a record influx of arrivals sent diplomatic tensions soaring between Madrid and Rabat. 750 words 1030 GMT by Hazel Ward, with Daniel Silva in Madrid. Photo. Video. Graphic Also moving: Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-Ceuta,SCENE Russia-Arctic-base-Nato,SCENE ALEXANDRA LAND, Russia "The enemy shall not pass," says commander Ivan Glushchenko, standing in the glistening white snow that surrounds an ultra-modern Russian military base in the heart of the Arctic, the site of Moscow's stand-off with NATO. 700 words moved by Maxime Popov. Photo. Video Europe-US-Australia-auto-travel,FOCUS PARIS For French retiree Jean-Michel Sibois, travelling will no longer be the same in the age of Covid-19. He is now among legions who have bought motorhomes to escape in their own travel bubbles. 700 words moved by Taimaz Szirniks. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote WASHINGTON A lawyer from Missouri who brandished a rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters near his home last year announces he will run for the US Senate. 400 words 0530 GMT US-politics-auto-Biden,SCENE DEARBORN, Michigan Joe Biden, sporting aviator sunglasses, looks out from the driver's seat of Ford's new electric truck and delivers a presidential proclamation: "This sucker's quick." 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-politics-Republicans,FOCUS WASHINGTON With Republican fidelity to former president Donald Trump all but complete, one of America's main political parties is tilting towards an outright embrace of an unsettling falsehood: that Democrats stole the 2020 election. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture -- ASIA -- India-weather-cylone-health-virus,WRAP MAHUVA, India Almost 90 people remain missing and hundreds of thousands are without power following a colossal cyclone, adding to India's woes as it suffers another record number of Covid deaths. 600 words 1100 GMT by Sam Panthaky. Picture. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-US,INTERVIEW KABUL The Islamic State group remains a "potent" force in Afghanistan and was responsible for a recent attack that killed dozens of schoolgirls, Washington's top envoy to Kabul tells AFP, but ambassador Ross Wilson chiefly blames the Taliban for rising violence across the war-torn country. 650 words moved by Jay Deshmukh. Picture. Video Also moved: Afganistan-conflict-US-immigration,lead China-US-Congress-Uyghurs-Oly-2022,WRAP BEIJING China brands US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "full of lies" after she called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds. 450 words 0930 GMT Afghanistan-environment-dam-Taliban,FOCUS KAJAKI DAM, Afghanistan In the heart of territory under siege from the Taliban, one of Afghanistan's most important hydroelectric dams is at the centre of a power struggle that symbolises the battle between the government and insurgents. 950 words moved by Elise Blanchard. Picture. Video. Graphic China-accident-construction,WRAP BEIJING Engineers inspect a 300-metre skyscraper in China after it suddenly began shaking, sending hundreds of people running in panic as social media was flooded with speculation over shoddy construction. 450 words moved. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-music-Brazil-politics,INTERVIEW RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years. 600 words moved by Isabela Cabral. Picture. Video afp
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