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| - Duty Editor: Anita Beattie Email: anita.beattie@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + G7 strikes 'historic' agreement over global corporate tax + At least 114 dead in Burkina Faso attacks + Trump to give first speech in months + Djokovic, Nadal set French Open landmarks G7-Britain-economy-politics,WRAP LONDON Finance ministers from wealthy G7 nations endorse a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent, rallying behind a US-backed plan targeting tech giants and other multinationals accused of not paying enough. 800 words moved by Anna Malpas and Ben Perry. Picture. Video Also moved: G7-Britain-economy-politics,POINTS G7-Britain-economy-politics-environment-climate,FOCUS Burkina-unrest,WRAP OUAGADOUGOU Suspected jihadists massacre at least 114 civilians in Burkina Faso's volatile north, in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials say. 550 words moved by Armel Baily. File Picture. Graphic. US-politics-election-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump is set to return to the stage for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024. 600 words 0000 GMT by Elodie Cuzin Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal record new French Open landmarks as they move effortlessly into the fourth round, setting up intriguing duels with a pair of Italian teenagers seen as heir apparents to the Grand Slam superstars. 700 words 2100 GMT by Dave James. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-India-virus NEW DELHI Markets and shopping malls in New Delhi will be allowed to reopen from Monday in a further easing of the Covid-19 lockdown, the chief minister says as infections fall in major Indian cities after weeks of restrictions. 400 words moved Health-virus-India-social-rural,FOCUS KALWA, India When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against Covid-19. 700 words moved by Glenda Kwek with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and Nishant Saxena in Lucknow. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Canada-indigenous-school,INTERVIEW KAMLOOPS, Canada It is a lifetime since she left, but Evelyn Camille's throat tightens as she returns to her old indigenous boarding school in western Canada to honor the 215 pupils whose bodies were discovered in a mass grave. 600 words moved by Julien Besset. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-film-musical,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Long before his mega smash-hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda dazzled Broadway with "In The Heights," a Latin pop and salsa-inspired musical celebrating the New York immigrant community that raised him. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-millitary-coup YANGON A clash between Myanmar soldiers and villagers wielding homemade guns leaves at least three civilians dead in the south of the coup-stricken country, state media says, although one witness puts the death toll at 12. 300 words moved India-internet-politics-tech-Twitter NEW DELHI India issues "one last notice" to Twitter to comply with new IT regulations that the social media giant says threaten privacy guarantees. 400 words moved -- EUROPE -- France-Libya-media-legal-Sarkozy PARIS A major figure in France's paparazzi world has been charged with witness tampering in a case involving former president Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer tells AFP. 400 words moved. Belarus-politics-unrest-Poland-border,SCENE BOBROWNIKI Draped in white-red-white Belarusian opposition flags, exiled Belarusians protest at the Polish frontier, calling for President Alexander Lukashenko to lift a border closure. 700 words moved by Dario Thuburn. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-telecommunication-internet-politics,WRAP ABUJA Telecoms operators in Nigeria say they have complied with a government directive to suspend access to Twitter indefinitely, two days after the US social media giant deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari's account for violating its rules. 650 words moved. DRCongo-volcano-airport,2ndlead GOMA The international airport in DR Congo's eastern city of Goma reopens two weeks after a deadly eruption of a nearby volcano, when the prime minister arrived to take stock of the situation. 300 words moved. -- MIDEAST -- Iraq-unrest-Kurds-Turkey-refugee,WRAP ARBIL, Iraq Three civilians are killed in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently threatened to "clean up", a Kurdish lawmaker says. 600 words moved Syria-conflict-Netherlands-Kurds-IS,WRAP QAMISHLI, Syria Syria's Kurds hand four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands. 650 words moved by Delil Souleiman with Julie Capelle in Amsterdam. Video -- SPORT -- AUTO-PRIX-AZE-pole,WRAP BAKU Ferrari's Charles Leclerc claims pole for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after a crash-laden, red-flagged qualifying session in Baku with Mercedes world champion Lewis Hamilton joining him on the front row. 600 words moved. Picture Racing-ENG-Derby,WRAP LONDON Adam Kirby's despair at being jocked off John Leeper ended in joy as he won the Epsom Derby on Adayar giving trainer Charlie Appleby his second win in the blue riband of British flat racing. 600 words moved. Picture afp
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