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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week. + Coronavirus thrives in Karabakh's bomb shelters + Bumper melon harvest sweetens Uzbekistan's pandemic woes + Venezuelans 'dying slowly' in rat and roach-infested homes + For Chinese consumers, Ant Group app is part of the fabric of life + Iraq's 'stadium of horrors' in ruins, but the game goes on + Iowa once embraced Trump, but could now help vote him out Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-pandemic,SCENE STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan Close quarters, poor ventilation and no masks: in the cellars of Stepanakert, the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh province, residents who have not fled fierce fighting may be safe from shelling, but not coronavirus. 600 words by Emmanuel Peuchot. Picture. Video Uzbekistan-agriculture-poverty-economy,FOCUS VAZIR, Uzbekistan In the giant shed of Uzbek farmer Sanat Kalandarov, a bountiful melon harvest hangs suspended from wooden beams, promising profits through a difficult winter ahead. 650 words by Shukhrat Khurramov. Picture. Video Venezuela-social-poverty,FOCUS CARACAS Sunlight cannot penetrate, the air is fetid and fellow residents include rats and cockroaches -- but that's how 14 families are "dying slowly" in government accommodation in Venezuela's capital Caracas. 600 words by Margioni Bermudez. Pictures by Cristian Hernandez. Video China-HongKong-ecommerce-lifestyle-consumers-IPO-AntGroup,FOCUS SHANGHAI The most essential item in aircraft engineer Tao Rui's possession during a recent outing in Shanghai was the Alipay smartphone app from Ant Group, a company little known outside China until it unfurled plans for the biggest IPO in history. 750 words by Jessica Yang. Video. File Picture Fbl-IRQ-Iraq-Mosul-reconstruction,FOCUS MOSUL, Iraq Mohamed Fathi, coach of Mosul's football club in northern Iraq, hardly recognises the ruined soccer stadium once used by Islamic State group fighters to fire rockets and lob mortars from. 800 words by Raad al-Jammas with Khalil Jalil in Baghdad. Picture. Video US-vote-Iowa,FOCUS NEWTON, Iowa Though she's a Democrat, Michelle Smith understood Donald Trump's popularity in 2016 in her home state of Iowa. She says her situation has, however, not improved since the New York real estate mogul won the White House four years ago -- and in fact may have worsened. 700 words by Eleonore Sens. Picture. Video afp
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