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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40 41 88 52 -- TOP STORIES -- + Six killed in Myanmar anti-coup protests + US to have enough vaccines for adults in May + Rocket attack in Iraq ahead of Pope visit + Four media workers released in Ethiopia + Moon spots: Japanese billionaire offers seats on rocket Myanmar-politics-military-press,WRAP YANGON At least six people were killed as Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy protesters, after the junta hit half a dozen detained journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, with criminal charges. 750 words 1030 GMT. Picture Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States will have enough Covid-19 vaccine for its entire adult population by the end of May, President Joe Biden says, while Brazil's troubles deepened as it registers its highest 24-hour death toll. 700 words moved by Ben Sheppard Iraq-attack-rockets-US,WRAP BAGHDAD A civilian contractor died of a heart attack when at least 10 rockets hit a military base in Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops, security sources say, two days before Pope Francis is due to visit the country. 600 words 1000 GMT Ethiopia-media-unrest,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Four media workers recently arrested in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region are freed, said a translator working for AFP who was part of the group held. 450 words 1030 GMT Space-Japan-aerospace-SpaceX-Maezawa-Moon,lead TOKYO It's the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue Moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedition to eight participants from around the world. 550 words moved. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Rwanda-genocide-rapes-children,SPECIALREPORT MUHANGA They grew up bearing the stigma of "children of torturers", shunned by their own communities, locked in a quest for identity that decades later remains without an end. 1,900 words moved by Lucie Peytermann. Picture. Graphic Ethiopia-Eritrea-conflict-massacre,INVESTIGATION DENGOLAT Residents recount what they say was a massacre by Eritrean troops in Dengolat, a village in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region where AFP has interviewed survivors and viewed mass graves. 1000 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Mexico education children, FOCUS SANTA MARIA CHIMALHUACAN, Mexico The coronavirus pandemic closed their school, but it also thrust a group of disadvantaged Mexican children living next to a giant garbage dump into the digital world. 600 words moved by Natalia Cano. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-economy-budget,lead LONDON British finance minister Rishi Sunak unveils his annual budget, promising measures to safeguard businesses and jobs while tackling virus-fuelled debt as England prepares to exit its third lockdown. 550 words 1000 GMT by Ben Perry -- EUROPE -- France-politics-justice-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS France's former right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy launches a defiant offensive to clear his name after being handed a three year sentence for corruption, lambasting the verdict and mulling a petition to Europe's top rights court. 600 words 1030 GMT by Stuart Williams Vatican-pope-Iraq-religion-Islam,ANALYSIS VATICAN CITY Pope Francis, on a historic trip to Iraq, will on Saturday hold a hugely symbolic meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, seeking to deepen his cautious dialogue with Muslim leaders. 800 words moved by Catherine Marciano. Graphic. File picture Lithuania-Russia-politics-Navalny,INTERVIEW VILNIUS A top aide of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny calls for sanctions on top Russian oligarchs in an interview with AFP, as the United States follows the EU in imposing sanctions on some officials. 550 words moved by Vaidotas Beniusis. Picture. Video Also moved: US-Russia-EU-diplomacy-dissent,WRAP Britain-Scotland-politics-SNP-Salmond-Sturgeon,WRAP EDINBURGH A top ally of Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon rejects calls for her resignation, as questions mounted over her government's handling of sexual assault claims against her predecessor ahead of an inquisition in parliament. 600 words 1000 GMT by Stuart Graham. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-traffic-technology,FOCUS CAIRO In gridlocked and heavily polluted Cairo, start-ups are searching for tech solutions to solve transport headaches for an expanding megacity already struggling with over 20 million people. 650 words moved by Emmanuel Parisse. Picture Israel-army-social,FOCUS TEL AVIV Israel's military faces a challenge on the home front unrelated to traditional threats against the Jewish state: it's over facial hair, and activists say the army's future is at stake. 500 words moved by Alexandra Vardi. Picture France-Algeria-politics-diplomacy-war-history,WRAP PARIS French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian activist Ali Boumendjel during his country's war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron acknowledges, officially reclassifying a death that was covered up as a suicide in a move long urged by his family. 600 words 1200 GMT by Laurence Benhamou. File picture. -- AMERICAS -- US-culture-literature-books-racism,lead NEW YORK They are beloved by generations of early readers for their wacky rhyming tales and mischievous plotlines, but six Dr. Seuss books are being pulled because of imagery now considered racist. 500 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture Canada-homicide-trial-internet TORONTO A Canadian man who killed 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto will learn whether his actions were criminal or owed to an autism spectrum disorder when a judge delivers her verdict. 500 words moved by Olivier MONNIER. File picture. US-accident-road,WRAP LOS ANGELES At least 13 people are killed in southern California when a vehicle packed with passengers collides with a large truck in a "chaotic scene" close to the Mexico border. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture. Video US-politics-extremism-unrest-Congress-FBI,lead WASHINGTON The FBI director defends his bureau's handling of intelligence ahead of the January 6 US Capitol riot, while telling lawmakers of a recent spike in domestic terrorism cases. 550 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture US-defense-army-racism,FOCUS WASHINGTON Nearly two months after some active service personnel and veterans took part in the deadly attack on the US Capitol, the United States military has begun to tackle extremism within its ranks. 700 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume Dominican-Haiti-migration,FOCUS SANTO DOMINGO Experts have hit out at a plan by the Dominican Republic government to build a wall on its border with Haiti to reduce illegal immigration, claiming it won't work unless accompanied by development. 650 words moved by Erika Santelices. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Australia-politics-assault,WRAP PERTH Australia's attorney general outs himself as the cabinet minister accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, denying the decades-old allegation and trying to draw a line under a crisis that has consumed the conservative government. 600 words moved. Video. Picture HongKong-China-politics-court,WRAP HONG KONG A marathon bail hearing enters its third day as dozens of Hong Kong democracy activists return to court in a mass subversion prosecution that has reignited international concern over Beijing's crackdown on dissent. 600 words 1200 GMT by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor Afghanistan-conflict-media JALALABAD, Afghanistan Outrage ripples through Afghanistan as funerals were held for three female media workers gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the latest assassinations to rack the war-weary country. 400 words 1100 GMT by Noorullah Shirzada. Video France-China-rights-Uighurs-book,INTERVIEW PARIS Gulbahar Haitiwaji knew that China would not be happy about her book describing nearly three years of imprisonment, brainwashing and harassment at the hands of the authorities simply because she is Uighur. 600 words moved. Picture Taiwan-Japan-wildlife-offbeat HSINCHU Emma, five-years-old, slim build with a gentle demeanor, is looking for love overseas. Hobbies include hanging with friends and studying Japanese. Seeks fellow rhino for companionship and mating. 550 words 1100 GMT by Amber Wang. Picture. Video. -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Sweden-telecoms-wireless-Ericsson-Bluetooth,FOCUS STOCKHOLM One of the best-known modern technologies owes its name and logo to a Viking-era king with a bad tooth: a quarter century ago, two engineers hatched the idea for the moniker "Bluetooth" over beers. 600 words moved by Helene Dauschy. File Picture Health-virus-Spain-food-ham,FOCUS MEMBRIO The sun is shining as Salvador Pereira Menaut's pigs trot between the oak trees in search of acorns -- but he does not look happy. 650 words moved by Emmanuelle Michel. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-film-festival-Germany-Romania,INTERVIEW BERLIN One of Eastern Europe's most acclaimed directors, Radu Jude, argues corruption, hypocrisy and white supremacy are far more obscene than pornography in his Berlin film festival contender about a history teacher whose sex tape winds up on the internet. 500 words 1100 GMT by Deborah Cole. File picture Entertainment-Jamaica-music-Wailer,OBIT KINGSTON Reggae legend Bunny Wailer, who co-founded The Wailers with Bob Marley in the 1960s, has died in Kingston at the age of 73, the Jamaican government says. 500 words moved by Andre Rich. File picture afp
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