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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 64016 8343 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump admits downplaying coronavirus risks + Global death toll tops 900,000 + Mass death warning as fires sweep US West + Animal population cut two-thirds since 1970 + Four-time F1 champ Vettel joins Aston Martin Health-virus-US-politics-Trump-Woodward,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump admits he tried to minimize the seriousness of the threat from Covid-19 at the outset of the pandemic in audio recordings released from interviews with veteran US journalist Bob Woodward. 750 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 900,000 since the respiratory disease first appeared in China last year, according to an AFP tally. 650 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video US-fires,WRAP CLOVIS, California Entire communities have been razed by wildfires raging in the western United States, with officials warning of potential mass deaths under apocalyptic orange skies. 750 words moved by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: US-fires-shelter,SCENE Nature-environment-planet-biodiversity,WRAP PARIS Global animal, bird and fish populations have plummeted more than two-thirds in less than 50 years due to rampant over-consumption, experts say in a stark warning to save nature in order to save ourselves. 700 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic AUTO-prix-GER-Vettel-RacingPoint,WRAP MUGELLO, Italy Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel signs for the renamed Aston Martin team for the 2021 season "and beyond" after a difficult spell at a slowing Ferrari. 600 words 0930 GMT. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain heads into emergency talks with the European Union facing warnings of legal action over a new Brexit bill and a stark reminder of its obligations to Northern Ireland from top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi. 650 words 1000 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic We will also move: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade-law,Q&A Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-text,POINTS Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,CHRONO Britain-NIreland-conflict-peace,FACTS Greece-EU-immigration-fire,WRAP-UPDATE LESBOS ISLAND Thousands of homeless asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos are stranded on roadsides after the country's largest camp burns down, with officials racing to find them shelter and avert a health crisis. 600 words 1030 GMT by Marina Rafenberg with John Hadoulis in Athens. Picture. Video DRCongo-Belgium-crime-rights-history,FOCUS BRUSSELS Torn from their parents, brought up in a convent then abandoned when the Belgian Congo gained independence. Five mixed-race women, living witnesses to one of the darkest chapters in colonial history, are now seeking justice. 700 words 0930 GMT by Francoise Michelle. Picture. Video Greece-Turkey-Mediterranean-EU-France-diplomacy,LEAD PORTICCIO, France French President Emmanuel Macron hosts leaders from Mediterranean states for a summit focussed on the growing tensions between Turkey and EU nations in the east of the sea. 600 words 1000 GMT by Jerome Rivet Russia-election-regions-opposition,FOCUS TOMSK, Russia Yelena Basova at first was not convinced that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny could have been poisoned in her hometown in Siberia. Then she watched his investigation into local corruption. 750 words moved by Romain Colas. Picture. Video Turkey-politics-women-rights,FOCUS ISTANBUL Just as Turkey began debating leaving the world's first treaty prosecuting femicide and domestic abuse, a jealous killer set a woman's body on fire and covered it in cement. 850 words moved by Burcin Gercek with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-coup BAMAKO Mali's new military junta launches a 'national consultation' with parties, trade unions and NGOs in the face of mounting pressure at home and abroad to set down a path for restoring civilian rule. 500 words 1030 GMT. File picture. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-brain WASHINGTON Headaches, confusion and delirium experienced by some Covid-19 patients could be the result of the coronavirus directly invading the brain, according to a new study. 500 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-rights-politics,FOCUS PARIS Posturing, repression and a distaste for facts: the world's strongman regimes have dealt with the Covid pandemic in much the same way they deal with everything else, analysts say. 650 words moved by Francoise Kadri Aslo moved: Health-virus,FACTS Health-virus,CHRONO Health-virus-obesity-alcohol PARIS Food and drink producers are leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to push unhealthy products such as alcohol, sugar-laden soft drinks and fatty fast food on consumers, an international coalition of health charities says. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-Argentina-education-doctors,FOCUS EZEIZA, Argentina The doctor brings his smartphone closer to the coronavirus patient lying on the hospital bed. On the other end of the video call, medical students pose their questions and make their prognoses from afar -- it's as close as they can come during Argentina's lengthy confinement. 550 words moved by Ariel Timy Torres and Sonia Avalos. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-campaigns,FOCUS WASHINGTON The cat-and-mouse campaigning by Donald Trump and Joe Biden has led the president and his Democratic challenger to the same locations, sometimes on the same day, while displaying radically different styles as they court American voters. 800 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture US-health-virus-9/11,FOCUS NEW YORK With crime on the rise, shops and apartments increasingly vacant and homeless people on the sidewalks, New York on Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter fight with the White House. 700 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Video. File picture US-Russia-politics-vote-intelligence,2ndlead WASHINGTON A senior US intelligence official says the White House ordered him to stop reporting on Russian election interference and highlight Chinese and Iran meddling instead, according to a whistleblower complaint. 700 words moved Also moved: US-politics-vote-campaigns,FOCUS Venezuela-oil-politics-energy,FOCUS MARACAIBO, Venezuela Cheap gasoline smuggled over the border from Venezuela once flooded eastern Colombia. These days, as desperate Venezuelans run out of fuel, the contraband is moving in the other direction. 550 words moved by Luis Bravo with Margioni Bermudez in Caracas. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-Rohingya-justice-rights YANGON Myanmar's military has sought to undermine the confessions of two soldiers who said they were ordered to "exterminate" Rohingya Muslims before taking part in the massacre of scores of men, women and children. 650 words moved File picture China-UK-diplomacy-Twitter-media BEIJING China's embassy in London has angrily demanded that Twitter investigate what it says was a hack on its ambassador's official account, which "liked" a pornographic video. 200 words moved Japan-toilet-technology-offbeat TOKYO Spacious, clean, and almost completely see-through, an unusual new public toilet block has been built in a Tokyo park -- but thankfully, the walls turn opaque when you lock the door. 300 words moved. Video. File Picture HongKong-China-politics-Wong,INTERVIEW HONG KONG Not a day goes by without Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong wondering how long it will be before the police's new national security unit comes for him. 700 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Kuwait-economy-migration,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY After more than 45 years washing cars in Kuwait to make ends meet, Egyptian Marzouq Mohammed will soon be kicked out of the Gulf country as economic woes and coronavirus stoke anti-foreigner sentiment. 800 words moved. Video Syria-conflict-crafts,VIDEO ESSAY DAMASCUS In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. 450 words moved by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video Sudan-health-mycetoma,FOCUS KHARTOUM It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foot. But the thorn brought with it a flesh-eating infection that can cause severe deformities. 700 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- Virus-health-ECB-banking-inflation FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany The European Central Bank is expected to hint at new stimulus measures, armed with a fresh set of economic forecasts amid rising Brexit tensions and fears of a coronavirus resurgence. 650 words moved by Ed Frankl -- SPORT -- Tennis-Open-USA,WRAP NEW YORK Serena Williams battles into the semi-finals of the US Open where she will renew her rivalry with Victoria Azarenka, as Daniil Medvedev books his place in the last four of the men's draw. 550 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture afp
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