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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hopes for global corporate tax deal as G7 meets + Facebook imposes two-year ban on Trump + Judge overturns California assault weapons ban + Nadal, Djokovic target French Open last 16 + Bomb-sniffing rat retires after award-winning career G7-Britain-economy-politics,WRAP LONDON Finance ministers from wealthy G7 nations are expected to formally announce support for a minimum level of corporate tax in a landmark move aimed at getting multinationals -- especially tech giants -- to pay more into government coffers hit hard by the pandemic. 700 words 1000 GMT by Ben Perry. Picture. Video US-IT-politics-internet,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook bans former US president Donald Trump for two years, saying he deserved the maximum punishment for violating platform rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol. 750 words moved by Glenn Chapman. File picture US-justice-law-guns LOS ANGELES A US judge overturns California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons in a move swiftly condemned by the state's governor Gavin Newsom as gun-related homicides surge across America. 350 words moved Tennis-Fra-Open PARIS Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal target the French Open last 16 but standing in their way is a spearfishing fan and a would-be estate agent. 550 words moved by Dave James. Picture Cambodia-offbeat-landmines-animal-rat PHNOM PENH A giant African pouched rat called Magawa who spent years detecting landmines in the Cambodian countryside has stopped working and will enjoy a well-earned retirement eating bananas and peanuts, his employers tell AFP. 350 words 0930 GMT. File picture. File video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-HIV-40years-US-race,FOCUS WASHINGTON Dedra Spears Johnson was working as a social worker in a suburb of the US capital Washington at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, when she concluded Black women's needs weren't being met by efforts to fight the disease. 900 words moved by Philip Van Slooten. Picture Also moved: Health-HIV-40years-timeline,CHRONO Greece-Acropolis-archaeology-politics,FOCUS ATHENS Controversy has engulfed an ambitious restoration project on the Acropolis, with critics accusing the Greek government of endangering the country's priceless heritage. 750 words moved by John Hadoulis. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India-social-rural,FOCUS KALWA, India When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against Covid-19. 700 words moved by Glenda Kwek with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and Nishant Saxena in Lucknow. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-internet-Twitter-rights,WRAP ABUJA Twitter is restricted in Nigeria, a day after the government said it was suspending the social media platform indefinitely for activities "capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence". 450 words 0930 GMT -- ASIA -- Indonesia-waste-environment,FOCUS JAKARTA Alarmed by the mountains of plastic waste leaching into Indonesia's waters, two best friends are taking on the environmental menace by turning crisp bags and shampoo packets into paving bricks. 450 words moved by Agnes Anya. Picture. Video Myanmar-coup-politics-military-poetry,FOCUS BANGKOK Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against Myanmar's sudden coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words. 650 words moved by Lisa Martin. Picture Myanmar-politics-military-coup YANGON At makeshift factories hidden in Myanmar's jungle, locals who have formed self-defence groups make rifles to take the fight to the military junta, but their homemade weapons don't always hit the mark. 450 words moved. Video. Picture -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-economy-internet-IT-currency-forex-bitcoin,FOCUS MIAMI Thousands of people have descended on Miami for a massive two-day bitcoin conference -- a sign that the US city, in the midst of a tech boom, is hoping to become the next cryptocurrency hub. 650 words moved by Leila Macor. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-musical,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Long before his mega smash-hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda dazzled Broadway with "In The Heights," a Latin pop and salsa-inspired musical celebrating the New York immigrant community that raised him. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video afp
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