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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Senate convenes on Trump impeachment + Myanmar coup protesters defy warnings + Computer hackers spike tap water in US city + WHO team in Wuhan to speak to press + There's a Q: Spy gadgets up for auction US-politics-impeachment-trial,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate gavels in on Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial, with his defense team decrying it as a "brazen political act" of retribution and Democratic prosecutors arguing that the ex-president wilfully incited a violent insurrection. 750 words 0630 GMT by Michael Mathes. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-timeline,CHRONO US-politics-impeachment-trial-figures,POINTS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,FOCUS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,INTERVIEW Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Anti-coup protesters across Myanmar defy a new military ban on rallies and take to the streets for a fourth straight day, as international condemnation swells against the putsch. 650 words 0730 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-hacking-water-chemicals WASHINGTON An unknown hacker breaks into a Florida city's water supply and briefly pushes levels of a potentially dangerous additive up 100-fold. 350 words moved. File picture. Health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China Investigators from the World Health Organization who have been at the pandemic's ground zero ready to meet the press and give an insight into what they have found about the origins of the coronavirus. 750 words 0830 GMT by Laurie Chen with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Russia-auction-spy,FOCUS BEVERLY HILLS Cyanide-filled fake teeth and cigarette packs concealing cameras are among the Soviet spy gadgets going under the hammer at a Beverly Hills auction this week. 450 words 0200 GMT by Laurent Banguet. Picture. Video. -- SPOTLIGHT -- Britain-arts-books-gender-cartoon,INTERVIEW LONDON Not all superheroes wear capes: some prefer dresses. Cartoonist Steven Appleby drew on his own cross-dressing to create August Crimp, who transforms into "Dragman" whenever he puts on women's clothes. 650 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video Turkmenistan-rights-Ennals-mass-media,PROFILE ALMATY Soltan Achilova, who found her calling late in life, may have fallen into one of the hardest jobs in the world: being a reporter in secretive and repressive Turkmenistan. 700 words moved by Christopher Rickleton. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-masks,POINTS WASHINGTON As new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus spread, experts say it's more important than ever to wear higher quality masks. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-Mexico-economy,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Mexico's coronavirus death toll is soaring and the capital is on maximum alert, but for many workers who scrape out a living in the street, staying at home is not an option. 500 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video. -- TECH AND LIFESTYLE -- China-technology-Clubhouse-censorship BEIJING The treatment of Muslim Uighurs, Tianamen Square and S&M hook-ups -- nothing was off-limits in the rambunctious, unflitered chatrooms of Clubhouse, before China's censors silenced the conversation. 550 words at 0600 GMT by Beiyi Seow. -- ASIA -- India-climate-glacier-flood,WRAP TAPOVAN, India Indian rescue workers battle through tonnes of rock and mud to try and rescue 35 people trapped in a tunnel after a devastating flash flood likely caused by a chunk of glacier breaking off killed at least 26 and left over 170 missing. 600 words 0700 GMT by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Already moved: India-climate-glacier-flood-survivors,SCENE HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong's top court orders pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stay behind bars as it sided with prosecutors in the first legal test of Beijing's sweeping new national security law. 650 words moved by Su Xinqi. Live video China-society-population-growth,lead BEIJING The number of babies born in China drops again, in the latest sign that relaxations in the country's strict family planning policy are not working. 500 words 0800 GMT India-agriculture-politics-demonstration-Tikait,FOCUS NEW DELHI The Tikait family has a history of being a thorn in the side of Indian governments that take on the country's farmers, and their emotional appeal has again energised a showdown with authorities. 600 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-IT-politics-union-Amazon,WRAP WASHINGTON Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama begin voting on forming the first American union at the e-commerce giant, an effort that could pave the way for further unionization at one of the world's most powerful companies 650 words 0730 GMT US-politics-Cheney,PROFILE WASHINGTON Liz Cheney, the lone congresswoman from the western US state of Wyoming and daughter of the former vice president, is done with Donald Trump. 550 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture Colombia-Venezuela-migration,LEAD BOGOTA Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque said on Monday during a visit by the UN Refugee Agency. 350 words moved. Picture. Haiti-politics-unrest,WRAP PORT-AU-PRINCE The struggle over Haiti's presidency intensifies as opposition politicians name their own leader of the country in an effort to drive out President Jovenel Moise, whose term they say has expired. 550 words moved by Amelie Baron. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-EU-diplomacy-Navalny,WRAP BERLIN Germany, Sweden and Poland each throw out a Russian diplomat in retaliation for Moscow's expulsion last week of their diplomats for allegedly taking part in protests in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. 550 words moved Also moved: Russia-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,FACTS Belarus-politics-unrest,ADVANCER MINSK Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko is convening hundreds of loyal delegates at a people's assembly this week to unveil promised reforms, in a display the embattled opposition has dismissed as political theatre. 650 words moved. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics-corruption-trial,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies corruption charges during a brief court appearance as his graft trial resumes weeks ahead of a fourth national election within two years. 750 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics-corruption-trial,FACTS Lifestyle-Jordan-art-make-up,FOCUS AMMAN A young Jordanian make-up artist has beaten the lockdown blues and shot to online fame with videos of herself imitating famous figures from across the Arab world and beyond. 550 words moved by Kamal Taha. Picture. Video Kuwait-women-abuse,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Women in Kuwait are defying conservative norms and a culture of "shame" to speak out against harassment for the first time, in a social media campaign sparked by a popular fashion blogger. 700 words moved by Salima Lebel with Dana Moukhallati in Dubai -- AFRICA -- CAfrica-unrest,WRAP BANGUI An aid convoy reaches Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, after a 50-day blockade by rebels who had cut off the city's lifeline, the UN said. 500 words moved by Camille Laffont. File pictures. Graphic -- BUSINESS & FINANCE -- Tesla-US-bitcoin,WRAP NEW YORK Tesla helps push bitcoin to an all-time high after the carmaker announced a $1.5 billion investment in the digital money and plans to accept the cryptocurrency from customers buying its electric vehicles. 550 words moved by John Biers -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- UAE-space-Mars,WRAP DUBAI A tense half-hour will determine the fate of the UAE's "Hope" probe to Mars, as the Arab world's first space mission carries out a tricky manoeuvre to enter the Red Planet's orbit. 500 words moved by Dana Moukhallati. Graphic -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open,WRAP-UPDATE MELBOURNE Rafael Nadal plays his first-round match at the Australian Open, where victory would give him a record 21st Grand Slam, after Sofia Kenin opens her women's title defence with a win but a distressed former champion Victoria Azarenka suffers breathing difficulties on her way to a shock defeat. 600 words at 0630 GMT. Picture afp
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