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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Calls intensify for end to Israel-Gaza conflict + Trump org under criminal probe in New York + Bitcoin tumbles after China issues warning + Chinese engineers investigate shaking skyscraper + Naomi Campbell becomes a mother Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY Israel and armed Palestinian groups in Gaza exchange fire through the night, as France proposes a ceasefire to stem more than a week of bloodshed. 800 words 0700 GMT by Mai Yaghi with Jonah Mandel in Jerusalem. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video 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 0530 GMT China-finance-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin,lead BEIJING Bitcoin plunges below $40,000 for the first time in more than three months after China's central bank warns against using cryptocurrencies. 500 words 0730 GMT 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 0630 GMT. Picture. Video 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 -- 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 in this Palestinian territory resounds -- "resistance". 800 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. 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 movement is unlikely to risk an all-out conflict. 850 words moved by Hashem Osseiran. Picture. File picture Also moved: EU-Israel-Palestinian-conflict-diplomacy-Hungary,INTERVIEW Israel-Palestinian-conflict-diplomacy-EU,2ndlead Israel-Palestinians-conflict-military-Hamas-Iran,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- 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 0600 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- 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 China-US-Congress-Uyghurs-Oly-2022 WASHINGTON US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls for a "diplomatic boycott" of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because of what she labels China's human rights violations. 500 words moved. File picture Afganistan-conflict-US-immigration,lead WASHINGTON US lawmakers plead for the evacuation of thousands of allies in Afghanistan, fearing a bloodbath as America ends its longest war, but the administration brushes off fears the Kabul government would quickly crumble. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon. 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 0600 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 0800 GMT by Jay Deshmukh. Picture. Video 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 -- EUROPE -- Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco,WRAP FINIDEQ, Morocco Spain steps up diplomatic pressure on Rabat as its prime minister flies into Ceuta, vowing to "restore order" in the North African enclave after a record 8,000 migrants reached its beaches from Morocco. 850 words moved by Ismail Bellaouali with Daniel Silva in Madrid. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-WSahara-diplomacy-conflict,ANALYSIS Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-WSahara,FACTS Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco,SCENE US-Russia-Iceland-meeting,WRAP REYKJAVIK The US and Russian foreign ministers are meeting in Iceland to gauge the unprecedented gulf between the rival powers and confirm a summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. 600 words moved by Francesco Fontemaggi Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's lower house of parliament approves legislation in a first reading that would ban members of "extremist" organisations from becoming lawmakers, a move targeting supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. 700 words moved. Video -- AFRICA -- Africa-diplomacy-France-economy-debt,WRAP PARIS A Paris summit promises to help Africa overcome the Covid pandemic with a "New Deal" using global financial firepower to replenish depleted coffers and ramp up a sluggish vaccine rollout. 800 words moved by Jurgen Hecker, Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Also moved: France-Rwanda-diplomacy-genocide,lead Europe-migrants-Libya-Tunisia-Bangladesh,2ndlead TUNIS More than 50 people are missing after a migrant boat headed from Libya to Europe sank off Tunisia, the defence ministry says. 600 words moved -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Netherlands-Entertainment-Eurovision-health-virus,FOCUS ROTTERDAM, Netherlands The mood is defiant among the trickle of Eurovision Song Contest fans who have made their way to Rotterdam -- like the mood of the Dutch port city itself as it braves the coronavirus pandemic to host the event. 650 words moved by Julie Capelle. Picture. Video 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 -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-FRA-Benzema,WRAP PARIS Karim Benzema is named in France's provisional Euro 2020 squad by Didier Deschamps, giving the Real Madrid striker a shock international recall after a five-and-a-half year absence over his alleged role in a blackmail plot. 650 words moved. Picture. File picture afp
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