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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Macron tests positive as Europe vows vaccine start + Russia to miss Tokyo Olympics after doping ruling + Nigeria jihadists show kidnapped schoolboys video + Brexit deal 'difficult but possible': EU + Super cyclone Yasa batters Fiji island Health-virus,WRAP PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron becomes the latest world leader to test positive for coronavirus as the EU vows to roll out an inoculation drive in the face of surging infections and the hardest-hit country the United States weighs approval of another vaccine. 700 words 1700 GMT by Stuart Williams with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Doping-Russia-RUS-Oly-2020-2021-court-WADA,WRAP LAUSANNE Russia will miss the Tokyo Olympics after sport's highest court delivers its decision on the country's four-year ban from international sport over alleged state-sponsored doping. 600 words 1500 GMT by Coralie Febvre. File picture Nigeria kidnapping unrest, WRAP KANKARA, Nigeria The Boko Haram jihadist group releases a video claiming to show schoolboys seized in a mass kidnapping in northwest Nigeria last week. 650 words 1530 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Graphic Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS EU negotiator Michel Barnier tell MEPs it would be "difficult but possible" to strike a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain by Friday. 700 words 1600 GMT by Dave Clark and Clement Zampa. Picture. Video Fiji-Tonga-weather-cyclone,WRAP SUVA Super cyclone Yasa slams into Fiji's second-largest island, tearing roofs off buildings as it triggers flash floods and landslides in the Pacific island nation. 650 words moved by Leon Lord. Graphic. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-Wuhan-photographer,PHOTOESSAY WUHAN, China AFP's Chilean photographer Hector Retamal, based in Shanghai, has been named news agency photographer of the year by The Guardian for work including his reporting on the ordeal of people in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic started. Here he recounts his experiences. 1,300 words and pictures moved by Hector Retamal Health-virus-France-Macron,FOCUS PARIS President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, his office says, sending fellow European leaders as well as other top French officials into self-isolation. 650 words 1600 GMT by Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-vaccine-Moderna,lead WASHINGTON US experts meet to decide whether to recommend approval of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, potentially paving the way for rollout early next week. 650 words 1530 GMT by Issam Ahmed Tennis-AUS-Open-health-virus,2ndlead MELBOURNE, Australia The Australian Open is pushed back to February 8 after weeks of negotiations as coronavirus disruption hits a second Grand Slam tennis season. 600 words moved Health-virus-lifestyle-Brazil-beauty,FOCUS SAO PAULO Mirrors don't lie, and neither does the screen during a videoconference: the virus-induced lockdown has led many Brazilians to turn to plastic surgery to improve their appearance. 650 words 1600 GMT by Paula Ramon and Florence Goisnard. Picture. Video Health-virus-Russia-politics-Putin,WRAP MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin says Russia managed the coronavirus pandemic better than other developed countries and announces he intends to be vaccinated with his country's flagship virus jab. 650 words 1530 GMT by Anastasia Clark. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- France-attack-trial-US,WRAP PARIS A French court is set to give its verdict against a Moroccan man charged with planning a terror attack on a Paris-bound international train, only to be thwarted passengers including off-duty US soldiers. 550 words 1700 GMT. Sketch. France-US-crime-fashion,WRAP PARIS Prominent French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a former close associate of disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, is detained in France on accusations of sex crimes, prosecutors say. 500 words 1600 GMT by Eleonore Dermy Brexit-Britain-trade-France CALAIS, France Unprecedented numbers of heavy goods vehicles are seeking to cross from France to Britain ahead of the British exit from the single market this year, creating huge tailbacks around Calais, French officials say. 500 words moved by Pierre Beauvillan. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-transport,FOCUS CHOBHAM, United Kingdom "It's an absolute mess," said Terry Goodwin, whose haulage company is one of many British businesses racing against time to prepare for Brexit, with just two weeks to go until the country leaves the European Union single market. 715 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- US-Libya-justice-Britain-Scotland-Lockerbie,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States plans to unseal charges soon against a Libyan man suspected of assembling the bomb that blew up a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, US newspapers have reported, but the father of the one of the victims questions the move. 650 words 1500 GMT by Chris Lefkow and Callum Paton. File picture Arab-revolution-anniversary-Tunisia,WRAP SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia Ten years since the intoxicating early days of the Arab revolutions, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in the Tunisian town where it began, the mood is one of anger rather than hope. 700 words 1600 GMT by Kaouther Larbi. Picture. Video Also moved: Arab-revolution-anniversary,SPECIALREPORT Arab-revolution-anniversary,CHRONO Arab-revolution-anniversary-Tunisia,FOCUS Arab-revolution-anniversary-Tunisia,INTERVIEW Iraq-politics-economy,FOCUS BAGHDAD A year of economic hardship for pandemic-hit and oil-reliant Iraq is drawing to a close, but a draft 2021 budget suggests citizens will feel the pain for some time to come. 700 words 1700 GMT by Maya Gebeily -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict-aid-hunger,FOCUS-EXCLUSIVE AYASU GEBRIEL, Ethiopia Tesfaye Berhe looked on with worry as his farmhands stripped leaves from sorghum stalks dried brown by the blaring sun, wondering how he could salvage a harvest disrupted by heavy fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region. 900 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video Sudan-politics,FOCUS KHARTOUM Sudan has experienced a whirlwind of change since its popular revolution kicked off two years ago bringing an end to the three-decade reign of strongman Omar al-Bashir. 800 words moved by Sammy Ketz. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-unemployment-stimulus,WRAP As lawmakers inch closer to a new stimulus package to help the pandemic-battered economy, the number of US workers asking for jobless benefits continues to rise. 500 words 1530 GMT by Heather Scott US-weather-snow,SCENE NEW YORK Heavy snow blankets New York, bringing joy for some as children grab their sleds and head to Central Park but piling further misery on restaurants and businesses already ravaged by the pandemic. 500 words 1830 GMT by Peter Hutchison and Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video US-politics-Trump-Casino NEW YORK Atlantic City will auction off the right to press the button to implode a former Trump casino, all in the name of a good cause. 300 words moved US-computers-hack-Russia WASHINGTON US intelligence agencies warn a "significant" cyber attack on several federal departments uncovered over the weekend remains ongoing as the government rushes to assess the extent of the breach. 300 words moved by Jack Moore. File picture US-justice-execution-children,FOCUS CHICAGO In 2004, Lisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman to death and used a kitchen knife to remove the unborn baby from the victim's uterus so she could kidnap the girl. 750 words moved by Robert Chiarito. File picture -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-US-US-military,WRAP WASHINGTON The top US military officer meets separately with the Taliban and Afghanistan's president, hoping to speed up a negotiated solution as President Donald Trump seeks to pull out troops quickly. 500 words 1630 GMT by Sylvie Lanteaume NZealand-economy-politics-health-virus,2ndlead WELLINGTON New Zealand roared back from a coronavirus-induced recession with record economic growth of 14 percent in the July-September quarter, official data shows. 500 words moved China-rights-ecommerce-Alibaba SHANGHAI China tech giant Alibaba offered face-recognition software that could enable users to identify Uighurs, a report says, becoming the latest Chinese company embroiled in the country's controversial treatment of the Muslim minority. 350 words moved -- BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY -- EU-Google-Fitbit-merger,lead BRUSSELS The EU approves Google's $2.1 billion purchase of smartwatch maker Fitbit, after the tech titan agrees conditions including not using health data from European users for advertising. 450 words moved by Max Delany -- SPOTLIGHT -- Pakistan-rights,FOCUS KARACHI Hani Baloch and her fiance Nasim never thought of themselves as dissidents, but one day in May -- just weeks before their wedding -- the students were snatched by armed and hooded men she says were from Pakistan's security services. 900 words moved by Joris Fioriti. Picture. Video France-drugs-politics-police,FOCUS PARIS As Ousmane heats the small square of whitish powder, the "rock" crackles. One draw on his homemade pipe, and he is away with the spirals of smoke. Welcome to Paris, City of Lights -- and France's crack cocaine capital. 1,200 words moved by Romain Fonsegrives. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Asia-JPN-Iniesta TOKYO Former Barcelona star Andres Iniesta promises his glittering career won't be cut short by the thigh injury that has left him facing four months on the sidelines. 400 words moved eSports-IND-PAK-India-Pakistan-Kashmir,FOCUS NEW DELHI When India banned the hit PUBG mobile game over its diplomatic row with China, Zeyan Shafiq's eSports team was suddenly left without players. So Shafiq, who is based in war-torn Kashmir, did something very unusual: he reached across the border to Pakistan. 500 words moved by Faisal Kamal. Picture afp
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