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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Too many nations bungling COVID response: WHO + Poland's populist president wins re-elction + One in nine people going hungry: UN + More than 140 dead, missing in China floods + Washington Redskins to change name Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA Too many nations are mismanaging their coronavirus response, placing a return to normality a long way off, the World Health Organization warns as Latin America records the world's second-highest death toll. 850 words moved by Robin Millard with Hazel Ward in Madrid and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world-lockdown,FACTS Health-virus-world,FACTS Poland-vote,WRAP WARSAW Polish President Andrzej Duda squeezes past a europhile rival to win re-election, official results show, but the narrow victory puts allies in the populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party on the back foot. 600 words moved by Anna Maria Jakubek. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: Poland-vote-Duda,PROFILE Poland-vote,POINTS Poland-vote,CHRONO Health-virus-famine-UN,WRAP ROME Nearly one in nine people in the world are going hungry, with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating already worsening trends this year, according to a UN report. 700 words moved by Alexandria Sage China-floods-disaster,WRAP SHANGHAI Floods across central and eastern China have left more than 140 people dead or missing and are swelling major rivers and lakes to record-high levels, with authorities warning that the worst is yet to come. 550 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Graphic AmFoot-US-NFL-racism-Washington,WRAP WASHINGTON The Washington Redskins confirm the team is changing its name following pressure from sponsors over a word widely criticized as a racist slur against Native Americans. 600 words 1930 GMT. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US HOUSTON The mayors of Houston and Atlanta are calling for a return to stay-at-home orders to staunch an alarming spike in coronavirus cases, but are being hindered by state governors who favor less restrictive measures. 600 words 2000 GMT by Julia Benarrous US-justice-execution,WRAP WASHINGTON A US judge orders a delay of the first federal execution in the United States in 17 years -- the death by lethal injection of a former white supremacist scheduled to be carried out later in the day. 600 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture US-China-Philippines-Vietnam-conflict-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the United States would treat Beijing's pursuit of resources in the dispute-rife South China Sea as illegal, ramping up pressure on another front between the two powers. 600 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon Health-virus-US-NewYork,FOCUS NEW YORK The trauma of the coronavirus is pushing New Yorkers to move out of the city in ever greater numbers, sending real estate prices through the roof in surrounding areas while leaving behind vacant apartments and fire-sale prices for real estate. 750 words moved by Thomas Urbain Entertainment-US-people-Preston LOS ANGELES American actress Kelly Preston, who featured in hit films "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins", has died from breast cancer, her husband John Travolta says. 200 words moved -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-WHO,2ndlead GENEVA The World Health Organization warns that too many countries are bungling their response to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning there can be no return to normality any time soon. 600 words moved by Robin Millard. Video Also moved: Health-virus-immunity Kosovo-politics-warcrimes,WRAP THE HAGUE Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is questioned by war crimes prosecutors in The Hague, saying that "nobody can rewrite history" over his role in the 1990s conflict. 600 words moved by Danny Kemp. Video. Britain-US-court-media-Depp,POINTS LONDON Hollywood star Johnny Depp wraps up five days of gruelling testimony in a libel trial that has exposed the dark underbelly of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. 650 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-politics,WRAP BAMAKO Malian authorities free political opponents whom security forces had detained following recent violent protests against the president, in an apparent bid to calm seething tensions in the country. 650 words moved by Amaury Hauchard and Kassim Traore. File Picture. Video ICoast-politics,WRAP ABIDJAN The difficult waters of Ivory Coast politics become even more turbulent as Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan quits, five days after the sudden death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, and with crucial elections less than four months away. 650 words moved by Patrick Fort and Christophe Koffi -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-unrest,lead HONG KONG Thirteen prominent Hong Kong democracy activists appear in court charged with holding an unauthorised gathering to mark the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the latest in a string of prosecutions against protest leaders in the restless financial hub. 600 words moved. Picture Also moved: HongKong-China-politics-Britain China-US-diplomacy-sanction-Xinjiang,WRAP BEIJING China slaps retaliatory sanctions on three senior Republican lawmakers and a US envoy in a deepening row over Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region. 500 words moved by Beiyi Seow. File picture -- MIDEAST -- Bahrain-rights,lead MANAMA Bahrain's top court upholds death sentences against two men convicted of murdering a police officer in a bomb attack, after hearing the case for the second time following allegations of torture in custody. 500 words moved. Picture Lebanon-politics-rights BEIRUT A coalition of rights groups says "repression" and "intimidation" are threatening free speech in Lebanon, hit by an economic meltdown and months of angry protests. 450 words moved -- ENVIRONMENT -- Health-virus-environment-pollution-virus-oceans-rivers PARIS Europe's major rivers are littered with surgical masks and medical gloves discarded by people protecting themselves against coronavirus, scientists have reported. 250 words moved -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- China-earnings-telecommunication-Huawei,WRAP PARIS Telecom giant Huawei reports double-digit revenue growth for the first half of the year as it appears to have recovered from a sales slump seen after the coronavirus pandemic broke out in its home country China. 650 words moved by Juergen Hecker -- SPORT -- Fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-Pr-ManCity-CAS,WRAP LAUSANNE, Switzerland Manchester City are free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA. 750 words moved. 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