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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Violence in US over Breonna Taylor decision + Stranded whales euthanised in Australia + Maddie suspect loses bid for prison release + 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. 650 words moved by Camille Camdessus. Picture. Video Australia-animal-environment,WRAP MACQUARIE HARBOUR, Australia Australian rescuers are forced to begin euthanising some surviving whales from a mass stranding that has already killed 380 members of the giant pod. 600 words moved by Mell Chun with Andrew Beatty in Sydney. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-Germany-missing-crime-trial,WRAP LUXEMBOURG The prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann loses his bid to be freed from jail when the European Court of Justice rejects his appeal against a separate rape conviction. 550 words 0930 GMT. File picture 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 -- EUROPE -- Russia-China-Belarus-politics-defence,FOCUS MOSCOW Russia is staging a series of military exercises with China and other allies amid growing alarm over a second wave of coronavirus infections and fresh tensions with the West. 750 words 0930 GMT by Maxime Popov. Pciture. Video Spain-ETA-conflict-television,FOCUS ELORRIO, Spain Ten years after ETA renounced its armed struggle, few will speak of the bloody campaign that ravaged Spain's Basque country, but a new TV series is hoping to shatter that taboo. 800 words 1100 GMT by Marie Giffard. File pictures Also moving: Spain-ETA-conflict,CHRONO France-politics-election-fraud-Libya-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS Former president Nicolas Sarkozy loses his latest challenge to a long-running inquiry into claims he used cash from Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi for his 2007 election campaign, bringing him a step closer to trial. 600 words 1000 GMT by Eleonore Dermy and Benjamin Legendre. File picture 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 -- MIDDLE EAST -- 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 Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Christianity-wine,PHOTOESSAY HAR BRACHA, Palestinian Territories Dangling off vines of Har Bracha settlement in the occupied West Bank, the grapes are plump and ready to be picked -- and evangelical Christians are volunteering for the job. 400 words 1000 GMT. Picture -- 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 -- ASIA -- SKorea-NKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korean soldiers shoot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burn his body as a coronavirus precaution after he is interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials say. 650 words moved by Kang Jin-kyu. File picture. Graphic HongKong-politics,lead HONG KONG Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is arrested in relation to a protest at the height of the city's pro-democracy unrest last year, his lawyer says. 350 words moved China-Australia-minorities-politics SYDNEY China's network of detention centres in the northwest Xinjiang region is much bigger than previously thought and has been expanded in recent years, according to research presented by an Australian think tank. 300 words moved Animal-Australia-accident BRISBANE, Australia A man is recovering in hospital after a crocodile attacked him while he was snorkelling off an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. 200 words moved 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 -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Syria-conflict-SYR-currency,FOCUS DAMASCUS Professional football clubs in war-battered Syria are struggling to sign new players, who are demanding raises to counter the decline in the value of their pay packets. 680 words moved by Fayez Wahbe. File picture Fbl-JPN-Japan-Kazu-Miura TOKYO Japan's 53-year-old footballing golden oldie Kazuyoshi Miura, better known as King Kazu, wins plaudits for his latest record-setting appearance, but says he is disappointed he couldn't score. 300 words moved -- BUSINESS -- HongKong-China-ecommerce-AntGroup-IPO HONG KONG The financial arm of Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba is planning the biggest IPO in history, raising as much as $35 billion in a joint listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, a report says. 300 words moved 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 -- 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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