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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus death toll slows in worst-hit countries + Top oil producers agree output cut, boosting prices + Christians celebrate Easter under lockdown + Millions watch Bocelli sing in empty Milan cathedral Health-virus,WRAP MADRID The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has slowed in some of the worst-hit countries, with Spain readying Monday to reopen parts of its economy as governments grapple with a once-in-a-century recession. 750 words 0630 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video Health-virus-OPEC-oil,WRAP VIENNA Top oil-producing countries agree on historic output cuts to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war. 650 words 0600 GMT by Julia Zappei. File picture Health-virus-Easter VATICAN CITY Pope Francis prays for coronavirus victims in an unprecedented livestream Easter Sunday message delivered from a hauntingly empty Vatican to a world under lockdown. 850 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-music-Easter MILAN Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a solo Easter concert from an empty Milan Cathedral streamed live to millions of people around the world in coronavirus lockdown. 250 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US,2ndlead WASHINGTON The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert says, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic is peaking. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Laura Bonilla in New York. Picture US-earnings-health-virus,ADVANCER NEW YORK The month of March opened with US unemployment near a 50-year low and concluded with countless companies turning to Washington for help as the coronavirus ravaged the economy. 650 words moved by Luc Olinga Health-virus-UN-politics-diplomacy-offbeat,FOCUS UNITED NATIONS The usually buttoned-down world of the United Nations is having an unruly April as it copes with the global coronavirus pandemic in a city that is suffering terribly from it. 500 words moved by Philippe Rater -- ASIA -- SKorea-NKorea-politics-vote-rights,INTERVIEW SEOUL The crippled crutch-wielding North Korean highlighted by Donald Trump in his 2018 State of the Union address is seeking a seat of his own in South Korea's parliament to defend defectors like him, who often find themselves marginalised. 700 words 0600 GMT by Sunghee Hwang. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his personal battle with the coronavirus "could have gone either way" and said there was "no question" doctors saved his life, speaking in a candid video message after leaving hospital. 700 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture. File video Health-virus-France-Macron PARIS President Emmanuel Macron is expected to warn France its lockdown to combat the coronavirus must go on for several more weeks at least, while also outlining how the country will recover from the crisis. 400 words moved. File picture -- MIDEAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Syria-conflict,FOCUS PARIS As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. 750 words moved by Didier Lauras. File picture Iran-US-banking-sanction-Luxembourg TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the country has won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. 400 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Saudi-economy-tourism,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia has quarantined thousands of people in hotels, some in luxury suites, to combat COVID-19, throwing a temporary lifeline to an industry struggling just months after tourist visas were launched. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Taiwan-sport-baseball-virus-health TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan swings into a new baseball season -- with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands -- as the island bucks the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus. 400 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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