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| - Duty Editor: Jonny Jacobsen Email: engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Belarus opposition leader arrested + Lava stops short of DR Congo's Goma + Italy cable car disaster kills 12 + UN appeal on Israel-Gaza + Eurovision winner's drugs test Belarus-politics-arrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusian opposition channel Nexta says its former editor and exiled activist Roman Protasevich has been detained at Minsk airport after the authorities forced his flight to land there. 500 words 1430 GMT DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo A river of boiling lava comes to a halt on the outskirts of Goma city, eastern DR Congo, after the night-time eruption of Mount Nyiragongo sends thousands of terrified residents fleeing in panic. 850 words 1600 GMT by Justin Katimwa. Picture. Graphic. Video Italy-accident-cablecar,WRAP ROME Twelve people are killed including after a cable car crashes to the ground on the side of a mountain in northern Italy. 450 words 1500 GMT. Picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories A UN official calls for a 'genuine political process' to avert further bloodshed after a military conflict between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas ravages the Palestinian enclave. 850 words 1600 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee with Daniella Cheslow in Jerusalem. Picture. Graphic. Video Entertainment-music-Eurovision-Italy-drugs,WRAP THE HAGUE The singer for Italy's Eurovision Song Contest winning rockers Maneskin will take a voluntary drug test after denying speculation that he was snorting cocaine during the broadcast. 500 words 1500 GMT by Danny Kemp -- SPOTLIGHT -- Spain-entertainment-music-rap-pop,INTERVIEW MADRID Spanish rapper C. Tangana was taking a big risk when he started mixing old-fashioned influences like flamenco and bossa nova into his hip-hop -- but it's this eclectic sound that has turned him into a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic. 650 words moved by Thomas Perroteau. Picture. Video US-animal-rats-health-virus,SCENE NEW YORK Late on a Friday night, eight dog enthusiasts and their pet pooches prowl dark alleys in New York's Lower East Side with one mission: to hunt and kill as many rats as possible. 800 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India-economy-startups,FOCUS MUMBAI After dealing with two coronavirus funerals in two weeks, Raj Sharma was too grief-stricken to negotiate a third with profiteering hearse drivers and crematoriums, so he turned to one of the many new businesses that have sprung up around India helping struggling people while also turning a tidy profit. 700 words moved by Nivrita Ganguly. Picture Health-virus-Bangladesh DHAKA A leading Bangladesh reporter critical of the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic is released on bail vows to "continue my journalism", after her detention sparked days of nationwide protests. 400 words moved. Picture. -- EUROPE -- Turkey-media-politics ISTANBUL Media rights groups urge Turkish authorities to investigate explosive allegations by a mafia boss about the high-profile killings of two journalists in the 1990s. 550 words 1500 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. File picture Britain-media-royals-Diana-Bashir,Lead LONDON Martin Bashir, the BBC journalist who tricked princess Diana into giving an explosive interview, apologises to Princes William and Harry, but says claims linking his actions to her death were "unreasonable". 550 words moved by James Pheby. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-books,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories It was the place to go for books in the Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European classics. But last Tuesday, its owner watched in disbelief as the bookshop was reduced to rubble. 600 words 1600 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-children,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories A ceasefire has ended Israeli air raids on Gaza but experts warn that children in the besieged enclave will likely carry the mental scars for years to come. 800 words moved by Sakher Abou el Oun. Picture. Video Iran-politics-vote,BACKGROUND TEHRAN Iran's presidential election next month could provide the final straw to split an already long-divided conservative political camp, after years of growing divisions. 800 words moved by Ahmad Parhizi. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-race-Floyd,FOCUS WASHINGTON "Day of Enlightenment." That's how the George Floyd Memorial Center wants to commemorate May 25, the anniversary of the 46-year-old Black man's death under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. File Picture Also moved: US-justice-race-Floyd-family US-enterprises-corporate-meeting-racism-wage,FOCUS US-minorities-language-deaf-IT,FOCUS WASHINGTON "English is not my first language," writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language. 700 words moved by Louis Baudoin. Picture. Health-virus-US-NewYork-leisure,FOCUS NEW YORK After 14 months of lockdown and restrictions, New Yorkers can now enjoy a city where most of these limitations have been lifted. But they are hesitant about partying and returning to the social life they enjoyed "before." 750 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture -- ASIA -- China-disaster-race,WRAP BEIJING Twenty-one people are killed after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a cross-country mountain race in China, state media says. 750 words moved. Picture. Video Wrestling-IND-Oly-crime-Kumar NEW DELHI Two-time Olympic wrestling medallist Sushil Kumar is arrested, Indian police say, after a week-long manhunt over the alleged murder of a fellow athlete. 200 words moved. Picture -- SPORT -- Soccer-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Liverpool, Chelsea and Leicester will stage a thrilling battle for two places in next season's Champions League as the Premier League comes to a dramatic conclusion on Sunday. 600 words by Steven Griffiths 1400GMT. Picture. Video. Oly-2020-2021-swim-CHN-Sun-doping,ADVANCER SHANGHAI Sun Yang's high-profile retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport takes place next week, with the Chinese swimming star's Tokyo Olympics and his whole career hanging in the balance. 550 words moved by Peter Stebbings. 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