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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Moderna to seek December vaccine approval + Iran blames Israel, exiled group for assassination + French police charged after black man's beating + Australia seeks China apology for 'repugnant' tweet + 'World's loneliest elephant' gets Cambodia welcome Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 receive a boost with US firm Moderna saying it is filing for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe. 750 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video. Graphic Iran-nuclear-attack,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says Israel and an exiled opposition group used new and "complex" methods to assassinate its leading nuclear scientist, as it buries him in a funeral befitting a top "martyr". 800 words 1930 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Graphic France-police-protest-law,WRAP PARIS Four French police officers are charged over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, a case that has outraged France and ramped up pressure on the government to give ground on a controversial security bill. 650 words moved by Guillaume Daudin and Jurgen Hecker. Picture. Video Australia-China-diplomacy-Afghanistan,WRAP SYDNEY Australia's prime minister angrily denounces a "repugnant", "outrageous" and "appalling" tweet from a top Chinese government spokesman and demands Beijing formally apologise. 550 words moved Cambodia-Pakistan-animal-wildlife,WRAP SIEM REAP, Cambodia Superstar Cher welcomes "the world's loneliest elephant" to Cambodia where it will begin a new life at a specialised sanctuary after being rescued from apparently grim conditions in a Pakistani zoo. 550 words moved by Suy Se. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-WHO-China,lead GENEVA The World Health Organization insists it will do everything possible to find the animal origins of Covid-19, saying that the knowledge is vital towards preventing future outbreaks. 450 words moved by Nina Larson. Video Health-virus-WHO-lifestyle-ski GENEVA The World Health Organization says each country has to weigh up the coronavirus risks involved in opening their ski slopes, as Europe bickers over a common approach. 400 words moved by Robin Millard -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-court-census,WRAP WASHINGTON The right-leaning US Supreme Court appears doubtful about President Donald Trump's plan to exclude potentially millions of illegal immigrants from the national census, which could shift the balance of US politics over the next decade. 600 words 2000 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- UN-nuclear-Iran,INTERVIEW VIENNA Iran has nothing to gain from ending inspections of nuclear facilities, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog tells AFP, as tensions rise following the assassination of a top nuclear scientist. 650 words 2030 GMT by Jastinder Khera and Anne Beade. Picture. Video Britain-pollution-inquest,WRAP LONDON The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died from acute respiratory failure after repeated asthma attacks says she hopes a coroner's inquest would conclude that air pollution played a role in her death, in what would be a legal first. 600 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video France-protest-law-Syria-conflict-rights,INTERVIEW PARIS A Syrian photographer wounded in a weekend protest in Paris says the sight of "blood everywhere" during clashes between police and protesters brought back memories of a crackdown in his home country almost a decade ago. 600 words moved by Rana Moussaoui. Picture. Video. NATO-diplomacy-defence,WRAP BRUSSELS The NATO alliance should seek a more political role as the lynchpin of the West, ministers will hear this week, despite disputes about its strategy. 700 words moved by Christian Spillmann. Picture. Video EU-politics-anniversary,FOCUS BRUSSELS Running the Europe Union is no simple matter and the duo at the head of the bloc of 27 very distinct nations has struggled mightily to have their voices heard. 700 words moved by Francoise Michel. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-attack-scientist,PROFILE TEHRAN Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist whose assassination the Islamic republic has blamed on Israel, was little known before his death, but one thing is certain: he was important. 750 words moved -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says Tigray region's dissident leaders have fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting, but federal forces are monitoring them closely and will attack them soon. 850 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video Also moved: Ethiopia-unrest-Sudan-refugees,FOCUS -- ASIA -- Indonesia-volcano JAKARTA Thousands flee the scene of a rumbling Indonesian volcano that burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash, the country's disaster agency says. 300 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Australia-fire-environment-climate,lead BRISBANE Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bushfire that has already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hits. 500 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- US-politics-economy-government,WRAP WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden formally picks ex-Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury, one of a slate of economic officials who would break racial and gender barriers in the US government. 650 words 2000 GMT by Chris Stein. Picture OPEC-oil-health-virus,WRAP LONDON OPEC kicks off a virtual meeting for member states to discuss continuing an extension of a production cut put in place in April as the pandemic continues to hit demand. 450 words moved by Benoit Pelegrin with Denise Hruby in Vienna US-financial-rating-merger-S&PGlobal-IHSMarkit,WRAP NEW YORK Credit ratings giant S&P Global reaches an all-stock deal to buy IHS Markit for $44 billion, creating a massive enterprise to produce data and analytics used by Wall Street. 500 words 2130 GMT -- SPORT - Fbl-Eur-C1-ITA-UKR-Juventus-Dynamo-referee-gender,2ndlead LAUSANNE, Switzerland France's Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to referee a men's Champions League match on Wednesday when Juventus host Dynamo Kiev in Turin, European football's governing body UEFA confirmed. 350 words moved -- ENTERTAINMENT -- France-literature-award-Goncourt,WRAP PARIS A futuristic thriller about the double lives of passengers aboard a flight from Paris to New York wins France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, which was awarded by video link. 500 words moved by Hugues Honore and Clare Byrne. 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