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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Eight killed in Atlanta-area spa shootings + Intense clashes in Myanmar's biggest city + France's Sarkozy on trial again after graft conviction + Uber grants British drivers worker status + Hakas and foghorns as Kiwis win America's Cup US-shootings-spa,WRAP ATLANTA Six Asian women are among eight people shot and killed at spas around the US city of Atlanta, with a white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police say. 700 words moved by Elijah Nouvelage with Camille Camdessus in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Plumes of smoke rise above a part of Myanmar's biggest city under martial law which has turned into a battle zone, with burning barricades and security forces firing at unarmed anti-coup protesters. 650 words by 0930 GMT. Photo. Video. Graphic. France-politics-trial-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial again over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just two weeks after a landmark conviction for corruption. 600 words 1230 GMT by Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video Britain-transport-technology-business-Uber,WRAP LONDON Uber says it is granting its UK drivers worker status, with benefits including a minimum wage -- a world first for the US ride-hailing giant. 500 words moved by Ben Perry Yachting-AmCup,2ndlead AUCKLAND Team New Zealand beat Italy's Luna Rossa to win their fourth America's Cup and strengthen their hold on the world's oldest international sporting trophy. 500 words moved by Neil Sands. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Yachting-AmCup,SCENE Yachting-AmCup-NZL,FOCUS Yachting-AmCup-NZL-winners,FACTS -- SPOTLIGHT -- NMacedonia-law-drugs-cannabis,FEATURE SKOPJE After receiving a suspended sentence for possession of cannabis last year, Filip Dostovski walked out of the Skopje courthouse and lit a joint outside as cameras rolled. 1,000 words moved by Sally Mairs and Darko Duridanski. Picture. Video France-Britain-history-tourism,FOCUS BAYEUX, France It has stood for over nine centuries as the most celebrated record of the 1066 Norman Conquest of England. But the Bayeux Tapestry is in need of restoration as the fragile work suffers from growing wear-and-tear including thousands of holes. 700 words 1230 GMT by Chloe Coupeau. File picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The EU's medicines regulator says it is "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's jab outweigh potential risks, insisting there is no evidence linking it to blood clots after several nations suspended the shot over health fears. 850 words moved by Nina Larson, with Danny Kemp in The Hague and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FOCUS RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories As Israel pushes on with one of the world's most intense Covid vaccination campaigns, nearby Palestinian hospitals without the jabs are struggling under an influx of patients. 700 words 1000 GMT by Hossam Ezzedine. Picture. Video Health-virus-UN-India-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Bangladesh NEW DELHI The coronavirus pandemic may have indirectly contributed to around 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, 11,000 maternal fatalities and 3.5 million unwanted pregnancies in South Asia, the UN says in a report. 350 words moved Health-virus-Ireland-pubs,SCENE DUBLIN The cellar of The Temple Bar in central Dublin would normally be stacked head-high with enough kegs of Guinness to serve thousands of pints to revellers toasting Ireland's patron saint. 700 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video Health-virus-Russia-economy-migrants,FOCUS MOSCOW Russian construction executive Vitaly Lychits bemoans a shortage of cheap foreign workers during the coronavirus pandemic as he walks across frost-covered ground at a building site in southwest Moscow. 750 words moved by Andrea Palasciano. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-politics,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Gone are the days when Covid-19 was a "little flu": Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has changed his pandemic-skeptic tune lately, sacking his widely criticized health minister, ordering millions of vaccines and even wearing a mask. 800 words moved by Louis Genot. File picture. File video -- EUROPE -- Netherlands-vote,WRAP THE HAGUE Dutch voters cast their ballots at bike-through polling stations and museums on the final day of a coronavirus-dominated election that could return Prime Minister Mark Rutte to power. 600 words 1100 GMT by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Netherlands-politics-vote-Rutte,PROFILE Netherlands-politics-vote,FACTS France-court-assault,WRAP PARIS France's top appeals court will rule on whether three firefighters accused of assaulting a teenage girl more than a decade ago should have been charged with rape instead of sexual abuse, in a case that has ignited a national debate on consent. 600 words 1230 GMT by Clara Wright and Clare Byrne EU-Turkey-migrant-diplomacy,FOCUS BRUSSELS Five years after the European Union and Turkey signed a deal to reduce the number of would-be refugees and migrants crossing into the bloc, arrivals are down but both sides have complaints. 650 words 0930 GMT by Anne-Laure Mondesert and Martin Trauth Also moving: EU-Turkey-migrant-diplomacy,INTERVIEW Spain-euthanasia-law,FOCUS A POBRA DO CARAMINAL, Spain In 1998 Ramona Maneiro helped her friend Ramon Sampedro, paralysed from the neck down following an accident, to die, a tale told in the Oscar-winning Spanish film "The Sea Inside". 650 words moved by Thomas Perroteau with Daniel Bosque. Pictures. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics-economy,Q&A BEIRUT Lebanon's worst economic downturn in decades has pushed a battered population to the brink with no solution in sight as the country's barons wrangle over forming a new government. 750 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal. File Picture Also moved: Lebanon-politics-economy,FACTS Israel-vote-Michaeli,PROFILE JERUSALEM Israel's Merav Michaeli, the feminist now leading Labor, says she is hoping to bring the party back from the brink of extinction in elections next week. 400 words moved by Stephen Weizman. File Picture. File Video Lifestyle-Libya-auto-sport,VIDEOESSAY BENGHAZI, Libya Burning rubber in eastern Libya's Benghazi, drivers from across the country take part in a drifting championship, a rare unifying event as the country seeks to end years of conflict. 400 words 1200 GMT by Mohammed Elshaiky. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Niger-unrest,WRAP NIAMEY Fifty-eight people have been killed in "barbarous" attacks on a bus and nearby villages in Niger close to the country's border with Mali, according to the government. 400 words moved by Boureima Hama Ghana-girls-education-pregnancy-health-virus,FOCUS ACCRA Gifty Nuako has just turned 18, an age when a young person stands on the threshold of life. Instead, her future looks bleak. 650 words moved by Marine Jeannin -- AMERICAS -- US-Ireland-diplomacy-politics WASHINGTON President Joe Biden will express support for the Northern Ireland peace agreement in the face of Brexit-related tensions when he meets Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin for virtual Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. 450 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Cuba-politics-US-Vietnam-diplomacy,FOCUS HAVANA Cuba will emerge from the April congress of its all-powerful Communist Party without a Castro at the helm for the first time in over 60 years. 750 words moved by Carlos Batista. Picture. File picture US-politics-immigration,FOCUS BROWNSVILLE, Texas In a gusty, open-air bus depot in Brownsville, Texas, Febe Carillo-Ramos speaks easily after a journey of hundreds of miles from her home in Guatemala: for the first time in 20 days on the road, she can now move without worry. 900 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- US-SKorea-NKorea-China-diplomacy-defence SEOUL Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin arrives in Seoul with top US diplomat Antony Blinken following for talks with South Korean officials to bolster a united front against an increasingly assertive China and the nuclear-armed North. 450 mords moved. Picture. Afghanistan-Taliban-Russia-talks,Q&A KABUL Russia will attempt to insert itself in a faltering Afghanistan peace process when it hosts a conference that has drawn high-level delegations from the Taliban and Afghan government -- as well as representation from Washington, Pakistan and China. 600 words 0930 GMT China-Myanmar-unrest-economy,FOCUS BANGKOK Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law -- Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, a country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia, but which is now fast unravelling. 850 words moved by Aidan Jones Japan-rights-court-LGBT,WRAP TOKYO Japan's failure to recognise same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a court rules, in a landmark first verdict on the issue that was welcomed with joy by campaigners. 650 words moved. Picture. -- ECONOMY -- US-economy-bank-rate WASHINGTON The US central bank has made it clear it is too soon to think about pulling back on stimulus for the pandemic-battered economy, but finds itself stuck between an improving outlook and inflation fears. 450 words moved by Heather Scott. -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-science-sealevel-Greenland PARIS The kilometres-thick ice sheet atop Greenland -- holding enough frozen water to swamp coastal cities worldwide -- has melted to the ground at least once in the last million years despite CO2 levels far lower than today, stunned scientists report. 600 words 1100 GMT by Marlowe Hood -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-Syria-film,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Shamima Begum, the teenage "ISIS bride" who left Britain for Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State group, is part of a documentary premiering at the online Texas-based South By Southwest festival. 800 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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