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| - Duty Editor: Joe Boyle Tel: joseph.boyle@AFP.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Spain locks down 200,000 + US set for sombre Independence Day + English pubs ready for drinkers' return + Indian man claims gold mask protects from virus Health-virus,WRAP BARCELONA Spain puts 200,000 people back in confinement as Europe stutters its way out of lockdown while the United States braces for large crowds hitting the streets to celebrate Independence Day. 800 words moved by Anahi Aradas with Dmitry Zaks in London and Jerome Cartillier in Keystone, United States. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Also moving: Health-virus,world,confinement,FACTS Health-virus-US-politics WASHINGTON The United States marks Independence Day in somber mood, with a surge in coronavirus cases, anti-racism protests and an angry speech from President Donald Trump casting a shadow over unusually low-key celebrations. 650 words 1530 GMT by Brian Knowlton and Cyril Julien. Picture. Video. Graphic. Health-virus-Britain-pubs,2ndlead LONDON Some of the beer may be stale from sitting in kegs for over three months, but Britons were still eager to sip it as England reopened its beloved pubs and lifted a wave of other coronavirus restrictions. 650 words 1500 GMT by Martine Pauwels. Picture. Video India-virus-pandemic PUNE, India An Indian man said he paid about $4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. 200 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain-economy-gyms,FOCUS LONDON It is raining hard but Bradley, a fitness instructor, and four of his gym rats are sweating profusely while alternating between squats and ab exercises in a London park. 650 words moved by Veronique Dupont. Picture. Video Netherlands-gender THE HAGUE Gender will cease to be mentioned on identity cards in the Netherlands in the next few years because it is "unnecessary", the Dutch minister for education, culture and science says. 250 words moved France-animal-crime-environment TOULOUSE Protesters rally over the killing of a brown bear in the Pyrenees mountains last month, as tensions rise between animal rights defenders and farmers who have called for protection against the animals. 400 words moved Health-virus-France-museum-Louvre PARIS The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, reopens on Monday but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica-entertainment-restaurant-gambling,SCENE JOHANNESBURG "I am breathing again," sighs Kanto Razafimandimby, on her first night out since South Africa reopened its restaurants and casinos as part of a gradual loosening of lockdown, even as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. 600 words moved by Susan Njanji. Picture. Video. -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Brazil-politics,FOCUS SAO PAULO As the number of dead from coronavirus shot up in Brazil, the popularity of far right President Jair Bolosonaro has remained unchanged. 650 words moved by Florence Goisnard. File picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-history KEYSTONE, South Dakota President Donald Trump bemoans protests demanding racial justice as "violent mayhem" but says little about an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases as he attends a crowded, fireworks-studded Independence Day celebration beneath majestic Mount Rushmore. 750 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-US-Japan-defence-Vietnam TOKYO Japan Two US aircraft carriers carry out drills in the South China Sea, a US Navy spokesman says, after the Pentagon expressed concerns over Chinese military exercises around a disputed archipelago. 250 words moved HongKong-China-politics-unrest,FOCUS HONG KONG Hong Kongers are finding creative and subversive ways to voice dissent after Beijing blanketed the city in a new security law and police began making arrests for people displaying now forbidden political slogans. 700 words moved by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor. Picture HongKong-China-Politics HONG KONG Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city's libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub. 500 words 1430 GMT. Picture China-health-organs BEIJING China is planning changes to its organ donation rules to encourage volunteers amid a shortage of donors and curb illicit harvesting years after it stopped taking tissue from executed prisoners five years ago. 500 words moved afp
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