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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden campaigns for key Senate runoffs + Boko Haram claims mass schoolboy abduction + US, Europe push forward on Covid vaccines + EU takes aim at US tech giants + Hungary MPs adopt anti-LGBT measures US-vote,WRAP ATLANTA A day after his election win was affirmed and as more Republicans begin recognizing him as president-elect, Joe Biden campaigns for Democratic Senate candidates in two Georgia runoffs where the results could shape his time in office. 600 words 1600 GMT by Jim Watson with Michael Mathes in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States and the European Union push forward on Covid-19 vaccine approvals as fears grow of a fresh wave of infections over the holiday season. 750 words 1600 GMT by Issam Ahmed with Danny Kemp in The Hague and AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Nigeria-kidnapping-children-unrest,WRAP KANKARA, Nigeria Boko Haram claims the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, marking what would be the jihadists' first attack in the region in a decade-long jihadist uprising. 700 words 1500 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Video. Graphic EU-tech-law,WRAP BRUSSELS The European Union unveils tough draft rules targeting tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook, whose power Brussels sees as a threat to competition and even democracy. 700 words 1500 GMT by Daniel Aronssohn. Picture. Video Hungary-LGBT-law,WRAP BUDAPEST Hungarian MPs approve a package of new measures targeting the country's beleaguered LGBT community, in the government's latest salvo in defence of "traditional" values. 450 words 1530 GMT by Geza Molnar Also moved: Rights-NGO-gay -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccine-Moderna WASHINGTON The US Food and Drug Administration on releases a positively-worded briefing document about the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, a strong sign that a group of experts that meets in two days will vote to approve it. 500 words 1430 GMT by Issam Ahmed. File picture Health-virus-EU-vaccine THE HAGUE The EU's medicines regulator dramatically advances the decision day for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus jab under pressure from Germany, meaning vaccinations in the bloc could start by the year's end. 600 words 1430 GMT by Danny Kemp Also moved: Health-virus-Germany-vaccines,lead Health-virus-Britain-Christmas LONDON Two leading British medical journals urge the government to scrap plans to ease coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, warning it would be "another major error that will cost many lives". 400 words moved by Joe Jackson Health-virus-Russia-economy,FOCUS MOSCOW Russia refrained from reinsituting a strict nationwide lockdown in an effort to save its economy when the second virus wave hit. But now the Kremlin is faced not only with a rising toll from the virus, but an economic crisis too. 650 words 1500 GMT by Andrea Palasciano. Picture. Video Health-virus-Iraq,FOCUS BAGHDAD While much of the world fears Covid-19, Iraqis have mostly stopped wearing facemasks as they worry more about the pandemic's economic impact than the virus itself. 650 words moved by Habib Haj Salem. Picture. Video -- ROHINGYA INVESTIGATION -- Rohingya-migration-trafficking,INVESTIGATION COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords. 1,700 words moved by Sam Jahan with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Peter Brieger in Jakarta. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Rohingya-migration-trafficking-rights,FOCUS Rohingya-migration-trafficking-couple,FOCUS -- AFRICA -- Somalia-Kenya-diplomacy,WRAP MOGADISHU Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing Nairobi of interfering in its political affairs, as Mogadishu prepares for long-awaited elections. 650 words 1430 GMT by Mustafa Haji Abdinur. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-court-Australia-extradition,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's highest court rejects an appeal against extradition to Australia by Malka Leifer, a former Jewish ultra-Orthodox school principal accused of sexual abuse of many of her pupils there. 400 words moved by Stephen Weizman. File picture Arab-revolution-anniversary-Tunisia,INTERVIEW TUNIS When Tunisia's embattled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali delivered a last-ditch speech promising new freedoms to a country in revolt, Nadia Khiari sketched her cat delivering the same address to a group of mice. 750 words moved by Paul Raymond. Picture. Video Yemen-conflict-disability-basket,FOCUS SANAA In Yemen's capital Sanaa, women in long-sleeved athletics shirts race down a basketball court in wheelchairs, dribbling and passing as a small crowd cheers them on. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-fire-accident,WRAP MOSCOW A fire rips through a retirement home in central Russia, killing 11 people who were trapped as the blaze swept through the small wooden building, investigators say. 500 words moved by Maria Panina. Picture. Video. Graphic Turkey-US-Russia-military-sanctions,ANALYSIS ISTANBUL US sanctions against Turkey over its Russian air defence system purchase were the lightest possible, sparing its economy and offering the NATO ally a chance to start afresh with President-elect Joe Biden. 650 words 1600 GMT by Ezzedine Said. File picture Britain-India-politics-diplomacy,lead LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India next month in his first major bilateral visit to another country since taking power last year, as Britain eyes post-Brexit trade deals. 600 words moved by Joe Jackson with Aishwarya Kumar in New Delhi. Picture. File picture. Video Britain-EU-politics-Brexit-Belgium-food,FOCUS ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium In the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, robot lift-trucks are working flat out to stockpile and ship Europe's biggest brands to British supermarkets before the New Year Brexit deadline heralds new trade barriers. 550 words 1500 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere.. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Barr,FOCUS WASHINGTON As a businessman, Donald Trump always had a fixer -- part-lawyer, part-law bender, someone to make bad things go away. And as president, he thought he'd gone one better: his very own Attorney General Bill Barr. 800 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture -- ASIA -- Japan-crime-murder-internet-suicide,WRAP TOKYO A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" is sentenced to death by a Tokyo court for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform. 600 words moved by Hatsuko Fukue. Sketch China-Xinjiang-labour-rights,lead BEIJING Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report says. 500 words moved Japan-food-agriculture-economy-health-virus,FOCUS IZU, Japan If you've eaten sushi, you might assume you've tried wasabi. But chances are it was an artificial version that Japanese growers say is a world away from their "green gold". 700 words moved by Mathias Cena. Picture. Video China-environment-conservation-fishing-Yangtze,FOCUS ZHONGBA ISLAND, China Yang Zeqiang's boat chugs across the Yangtze ferrying a few people and sacks of grain -- his new source of income after all fishing was halted along China's longest river in the name of environmental protection. 800 words moved by Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Oly-2021-2020-Japan-Koike-virus-health,INTERVIEW TOKYO Tokyo's governor says she can see "no circumstances" under which the virus-postponed 2020 Olympics will be cancelled, despite rising coronavirus infections in Japan and continued public scepticism. 650 moved by Hiroshi Hiyama and Sara Hussein. Picture Yachting-AmCup-NZL,PREVIEW AUCKLAND The "flying" yachts created for next year's America's Cup, capable of exceeding 50 knots balanced on "knife-edge" carbon fibre foils, will be tested in race conditions for the first time in warm-up events beginning in Auckland on Thursday. 550 words moved. Picture Cricket-AUS-IND,PREVIEW ADELAIDE, Australia Top-ranked Australia are plotting revenge in their first day-night Test against fellow powerhouse India, as both teams grapple with injuries and selection dilemmas. 650 words moved by Martin Parry afp
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