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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Putin, Belarussia's Lukashenko to discuss crisis + Biden urges 'generational' investment in US economy + Macron recognises French role in Rwanda genocide + 'No one is invincible', Nadal tells AFP + Die-hard 'Friends' fans treated to reunion special Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP SOCHI, Russia Vladimir Putin and Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko are to meet after the UN civil aviation agency announced it will investigate the diversion of a passenger plane and the arrest of a journalist on board in a growing diplomatic row. 800 words 0300 GMT by Mary Sibierski. Picture. Video. Graphic US-economy-politics-infrastructure,WRAP CLEVELAND, Ohio President Joe Biden urges "generational" investment in US infrastructure to keep the economic superpower ahead of China while ensuring that less wealthy Americans are not left behind. 550 words moved by Nicholas Kamm with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture Rwanda-France-diplomacy-genocide-history,WRAP KIGALI French President Emmanuel Macron recognises his country's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed. 800 words moved by Jerome Rivet and Simon Valmary. Picture. Video Also moved: France-Rwanda-diplomacy-genocide-history-politics,FACTS Tennis-FRA-Open-Nadal,INTERVIEW PARIS Rafael Nadal says "no-one is invincible" in an interview with AFP as he targets a 14th French Open title and record-setting 21st Grand Slam crown. 650 words moved by Elodie Soinard and Igor Gedilaghine. Video Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-draw Entertainment-US-TV-celebrity-Friends LOS ANGELES Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer almost hooked up on the set of "Friends" -- but their characters Rachel and Ross nearly didn't, just one of the revelations as a one-off reunion special of the beloved 1990s sitcom streams on the HBO Max platform. 400 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- China-television-culture-LGBT,FOCUS BEIJING Two men exchange longing glances, a frisson of sexual tension in an on-screen relationship that must otherwise go unspoken -- China's "boys' love" phenomenon is gripping video streamers, slipping by censors of LGBTQ themes with their subtlety. 800 words 0300 GMT by Beiyi Seow and Danni Zhu. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Australia,lead MELBOURNE Five million Melbourne residents return to lockdown, straining local resolve and testing Australia's "zero-Covid" strategy of smothering outbreaks however small. 450 words 0300 GMT. Picture. Video. Health-virus-US-IT-Facebook,WRAP WASHINGTON Facebook has reversed its policy banning posts suggesting Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory amid renewed debate over the origins of the virus, raising fresh questions about social media's role in policing misinformation. 750 words moved by Rob Lever Health-virus-Argentina-Uruguay-vaccines,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO Uruguay adopted a hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic while Argentina applied strict lockdowns but the fate of the South American neighbors was the same: They now have some of the world's highest Covid-19 death rates. 650 words 0130 GMT by Lucia Lacurcia with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-Afghanistan-conflict-military-immigration WASHINGTON The US government is "rapidly" formulating plans to evacuate potentially thousands of interpreters who worked for coalition forces in Afghanistan over the past two decades to protect their safety, a top general says. 400 words moved Colombia-politics-protest,FOCUS BOGOTA Colombia marks a full month of anti-government protests that have claimed dozens of lives and invited international condemnation of its police response. Observers fear the end is nowhere in sight. 800 words 0130 GMT by Hector Velasco. Picture US-culture-art-internet,VIDEOESSAY NEW YORK Filmmaker Zack Obid trembles with excitement: he has just found a miniature work of art during a treasure hunt that an American artist organizes every week in his Brooklyn neighborhood. 500 words 0130 GMT by Laura Bonilla. Picture. Video Mexico-vote-crime-drugs,FOCUS DOLORES HIDALGO, Mexico Every day before hitting the campaign trail, Julio Gonzalez prays he will come home alive and avoid joining the growing number of candidates murdered during another bloody Mexican election battle. 650 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-coup-politics-food,FOCUS YANGON Aye Mar sits with her seven children in their Yangon kitchen and worries whether their meal of rice and stringy vegetables -- all she can afford in coup-stricken Myanmar -- will satisfy their hunger. 550 words 0330 GMT. Picture. Video China-technology-politics-internet,ANALYSIS BEIJING With a self-effacing note Chinese tycoon Zhang Yiming, the brains behind popular video-sharing app TikTok, stepped down as head of his own firm last week admitting he preferred "daydreaming" to running a multibillion-dollar global company. 800 words 0330 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng with Aidan Jones in Bangkok -- EUROPE -- Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP YEREVAN Six Armenian soldiers are captured by Azerbaijan, the latest in a series of escalating border incidents after last year's war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with Washington calling on both sides to resolve the situation "urgently and peacefully". 750 words moved by Mariam Harutyunan. Picture. Video Spain-attacks-Catalonia-trial,WRAP MADRID A Spanish court hands jail terms of up to 53 years to three men who helped the jihadists behind the 2017 Barcelona attacks that killed 16 people. 600 words moved. File picture. File video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-conflict-vote,WRAP DAMASCUS Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations the polls were "neither free nor fair". 600 words moved Also moved: Syria-conflict-vote-Assad,PROFILE Iran-politics-vote,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader urges voters to ignore boycott calls and turns a deaf ear to criticism over the rejection of hopefuls for next month's presidential election, a move that appears to have made ultraconservatives the front-runners. 700 words moved. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-UN-rights,WRAP GENEVA The UN Human Rights Council decides to create an open-ended international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Gaza violence, and into "systematic" abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel. 850 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US-diplomacy,Q&A Iraq-media-misinformation,FOCUS BAGHDAD Conspiracy theories, fake reports and mudslinging -- in Iraq, false news thrives and risks real-lige consequences as authorities struggle to counteract its spread. 750 words 0330 GMT by Laure Al Khoury. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo Tens of thousands of people flee the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, choking highways, after the local governor warned in a dawn broadcast of a possible new eruption of the volcano Mount Nyiragongo. 900 words moved by Heritier Baraka Munyampfura. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: DRCongo-volcano-gas-science,FOCUS DRCongo-volcano-Cameroon,FACTS Nigeria-accident-boat,WRAP NGASKI, Nigeria Nigerian rescue workers pull more than three dozen bodies from the water after an overcrowded river boat sank leaving more than 150 people missing and feared drowned. 400 words moved by Manniru Suleiman with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. Picture. Video. Graphic Mali-politics,WRAP BAMAKO The Malian military release the country's interim leaders but take control of the government in moves that have fallen far short of international demands to resolve the deep crisis. 650 words moved by Serge Daniel with Laurent Lozano in Dakar Also moved: Mali-politics-army-unrest,PROFILE -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-warming-WMO PARIS The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming limit goal laid out in the Paris climate deal within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global temperature trends. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey afp
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