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| - Duty Editor: Mike Smith Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Indonesia says missing submarine sank + India surge drives world to record daily cases + Biden expected to recognise Armenian genocide + Gaza rockets follow Jerusalem clashes + Giuliani wins Razzies for infamous 'Borat' scene Indonesia-military-submarine,WRAP BALI, Indonesia Debris has been recovered from a missing Indonesian submarine, the country's navy says, suggesting that the stricken vessel could have broken apart after sinking with 53 crew aboard. 700 words 1430 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The world hits a new daily record of coronavirus cases due mainly to an explosion of the virus in India, but Covid jabs also approach one billion globally, offering hope after months of pandemic misery. 800 words 1600 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden is expected to take the landmark step of recognizing the World War I-era Armenian genocide, a day after he spoke to the leader of Turkey which has fought furiously for decades against such a declaration. 800 words 1630 GMT by Shaun Tandon Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli warplanes strike the Gaza Strip after repeated salvos of rocket fire into Israel followed a second night of clashes between Palestinians and police in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. 750 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-film-award-Razzies LOS ANGELES The votes are in, and there is no point in Rudy Giuliani arguing with the result -- Donald Trump's lawyer is awarded two Razzies for his "performance" in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." 350 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-India,SCENE NEW DELHI Barely breathing, Shyam Naryan arrives in a red rickshaw at the Delhi hospital, his feet hanging over the side, his family desperate, but it soon becomes clear that the overpowered staff cannot help the latest victim of the coronavirus wave battering India. 750 words moved by Maude Brulard and Archana Thiyagarajan Vietnam-fbl-women QUANG NINH, Vietnam Legs stiff from long days in the rice terraces of northern Vietnam, scores of female farmers dressed in colourful cloth headbands and skirts gather on a gravel pitch for a game of football. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Brazil,VIDEOESSAY SANTO ANDRE, Brazil Carlos Marques has spent 12 years driving ambulances in Sao Paulo state but nothing prepared him for the trauma of working amid one of the world's worst outbreaks of the coronavirus. 500 words moved by Paula Ramon and Fernando Marron. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines,BACKGROUND PARIS On December 8, 90-year-old British woman Margaret Keenan, resplendent in her Christmas T-shirt, received the Western world's first Covid vaccination -- a chink of light at the end of the tunnel for humanity after a devastating pandemic year. 1,000 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccines-remote,VIDEOESSAY PARIS Nearly one billion Covid jabs have now been administered worldwide but reaching people in all four corners of the planet is an unprecedented logistical challenge 500 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Health-virus-vaccines-Britain,FOCUS LONDON It was the shot in the arm that made history: in December last year British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the Western world to get an approved coronavirus vaccine, kicking off a global campaign to end the pandemic. 450 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture. File video -- EUROPE -- France-police-attack,WRAP RAMBOUILLET French investigators question three people linked to a Tunisian man who stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack. 800 words 1500 GMT by Alice Lefebvre and Tiphaine Liboux. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: France-police-attack-Tunisia,lead Armenia-Turkey-history-genocide,WRAP YEREVAN Thousands of Armenians flock to a hilltop memorial in the capital to mark the 106th anniversary of the World War I-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman Turks, ahead of a possible step by US President Joe Biden to designate the killings genocide. 600 words moved by Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video. Graphic Turkey-crypto-fraud,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkey detains the chief of one of the country's biggest cryptocurrency firms after launching a manhunt for the founder of another exchange who fled to Albania. 500 words 1430 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Basket-NBA-Lakers-James-police-shootings,WRAP NEW YORK Anger mounts on the US conservative right over an inflammatory tweet by NBA star LeBron James targeting a police officer who shot dead a knife-wielding 16-year-old Black girl in his home state of Ohio. 500 words moved by Thomas Urbain -- ASIA -- Indonesia-Myanmar-Asean-diplomacy,WRAP JAKARTA Myanmar's military must restore democracy and stop the violence against citizens, Indonesian President Joko Widodo says after crisis talks with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing and Southeast Asian leaders. 750 words moved. Picture. Video India-avalanche-climate-China-armament NEW DELHI At least eight workers are killed and hundreds rescued after an avalanche strikes a remote Himalayan region near the China border in northern India, officials say. 300 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Yemen-conflict-fashion,FOCUS DUBAI Entisar al-Hammadi was just starting a career in modelling when she was arrested in Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa, where the Iran-backed Huthis are enforcing a morals campaign. 650 words moved. Picture -- SPACE -- US-Europe-space-SpaceX WASHINGTON A recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts docks with the International Space Station, the third time Elon Musk's company has safely delivered humans to the orbital outpost. 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Graphic. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-Super-Britain-politics-UEFA,INTERVIEW LONDON "Soccernomics" economist Stefan Szymanski says the "pent-up demand" underpinning the concept of a European Super League will not disappear, despite the launch in Britain of a wholesale review into the running of English football. 700 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video Also moved: Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-UEFA-venues-Eur-C1-Super,WRAP Fbl-Ger-Bundesliga BERLIN Bayern Munich can be crowned Bundesliga champions for the ninth successive season and with three games to go if they win away at Mainz. 500 words 1600 GMT. By Ryland James. Picture -- ENVIRONMENT -- Britain-environment-food-pollution-fishing,FOCUS PORTSMOUTH, England Decimated by over-fishing and pollution, British oysters could make a comeback as a hatchery in the Channel port city of Portsmouth is helping to revive a native species. 750 words moved by Charlotte Durand. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-five,POINTS HOLLYWOOD Travelers passing through Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday might notice a commotion -- for one night only, it is doubling as the venue for the Oscars. They likely won't see much, but here are five things to watch for at home. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File Picture. Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-vote,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-picture-winners-20years,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-France,PROFILE afp
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