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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Violence erupts after Breonna Taylor jury decision + New protests in Belarus over leader's inauguration + Hopes fade for last of Australia's stranded whales + Christmas under quarantine too much for All Blacks + Butterflies' colour may be key to climate survival US-police-shooting-racism-politics,WRAP LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Two police officers were shot as angry protests rippled across the United States after authorities announced no one would be charged with the killing of Breonna Taylor. 750 words moved by Camille Camdessus. Picture. Video Belarus-politics-unrest-inauguration,WRAP MINSK Belarusian police fire tear gas and detain dozens of people during fresh protests against strongman Alexander Lukashenko sparked by news of his secretive presidential inauguration. 700 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-vote-unrest-Lukashenko,PROFILE Australia-animal-environment,WRAP MACQUARIE HARBOUR, Australia Only a few dozen of the 470 whales that swam to shore in Australia's biggest known mass stranding can be saved, rescuers warn, as they weigh euthanising those animals in most distress. 600 words 0630 GMT by Mell Chun with Andrew Beatty in Sydney RugbyU-RC-2020-AUS-NZL-RSA-ARG-health-virus WELLINGTON New Zealand Rugby refuses to rule out boycotting the end of this year's Rugby Championship in Australia after organisers unveiled a schedule that would leave the All Blacks stranded in quarantine at Christmas. 500 words moved by Neil Sands. Picture. Video Environment-climate-butterfly PARIS A butterfly's ability to absorb or reflect heat from the sun with its wings could be a matter of life and death in a warming world, according to British research that calls for gardens, parks and farms to host shady, cooling-off spots. 700 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Picture -- ASIA -- SKorea-NKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector who was found swimming at sea, then poured oil over his body and burned it over coronavirus fears, Seoul military officials say. 550 words 0600 GMT by Kang Jin-kyu. File picture. Graphic Vietnam-conservation-wildlife-health-virus,FOCUS NINH BINH, Vietnam Life remains precarious in Vietnam for the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal, despite a vow to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that many blame for the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Alice Philipson. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-politics-Trump WASHINGTON President Donald Trump refuses to guarantee that he will transfer power if he loses the November election, earning scorn from his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and even from within his own party. 500 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-vote-court,WRAP WASHINGTON Mourners flock to the US Supreme Court to pay their respects to late liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose death has opened a crucial seat on the nine-member bench that Donald Trump has vowed to fill before the November election. 600 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-court-issues,POINTS UN-summit-reform,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS A flurry of world leaders have appealed again to the United Nations to reform the Security Council but prospects are seen as close to zero by most experts. 600 words moved by Philippe Rater and Laura Bonilla. File picture Also moved: UN-summit,WRAP -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-Germany-Navalny-hospital,WRAP BERLIN Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after a month and can make a full recovery, his doctors in Berlin say. 700 words moved by Hui Min Neo with Jonathan Brown in Moscow. Picture. File picture. Video France-Libya-fraud-election-court PARIS A Paris appeals court will rule Thursday on a legal challenge by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former aides against an investigation into claims that Libyan money was used in his 2007 election campaign. 400 words moved Russia-environment-climate-social,FOCUS SHIPUNOVO, Russia Equipped with a shovel, Grigory Kuksin lifts and turns smouldering earth in the marshy clearing of a sprawling Siberian forest as part of a battle against carbon-emitting "zombie fires". 700 words moved by Romain Colas. Picture. Video. Switzerland-vote-immigration-EU-politics-economy,ADVANCER GENEVA A Swiss vote on limiting EU immigration is not expected to pass, but fears abound that a shock "yes" could deal a fatal blow to relations with the bloc. 700 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture. Video. Also moved: Switzerland-vote-immigration-EU-politics-economy,FACTS -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-blast-business,FOCUS BEIRUT Standing in the gutted ruins of her bar destroyed by Beirut's massive port blast, Lebanese entrepreneur Gizelle Hassoun hopes crowdfunding can help save her business from the rubble. 750 words moved by Alice Hackman. Picture. Video. -- AFRICA -- Mauritius-Japan-environment-oil,Q&A NAIROBI On July 25, a cargo ship loaded with thousands of tonnes of fuel ran aground off Mauritius, leading to the worst environmental disaster ever witnessed in the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago. AFP summarises the latest news from the area. 750 words moved by Marion Douet. File video. File picture. -- BUSINESS -- US-IT-politics-China,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's war on Chinese technology firms has changed the ground rules for global business, underscoring a new political reality that could have negative repercussions for American firms. 750 words moved by Delphine Touitou and Rob Lever US-banking-racism-WellsFargo,WRAP NEW YORK Wells Fargo's chief executive apologizes over remarks that blamed the bank's mostly-white operating leadership on a lack of available black talent as the embattled lender seeks to quell a public uproar. 600 words moved by John Biers Australia-banking-crime,2ndlead SYDNEY Australia's Westpac bank agrees to pay a record AU$1.3 billion fine for more than 23 million breaches of money-laundering laws and failure to block child exploitation payments. 600 words moved Banking-corruption-investigation,ANALYSIS LONDON Financial regulators must impose more heavy penalties to combat money laundering, experts argue, after an international journalism investigation alleged that astronomical amounts of dirty cash has been flowing for years through some top global banks. 600 words moved by Veronique Dupont and Eve Szeftel -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-health-virus-music-opera,lead NEW YORK New York's Metropolitan Opera announces the "painful" cancelation of its entire 2020-21 season over the still-spreading coronavirus, a major blow for the city's decimated arts and culture industry. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. 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