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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US tops 3 mln cases, Trump pushes to reopen schools + Australia offers refuge for Hong Kongers + Melbourne begins second shutdown as virus surges + Battle to rescue thousands trapped by Japan floods + Surgical gloves to boxing gloves: nurse gets in the ring Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States tops three million confirmed coronavirus cases as President Donald Trump pushes for schools to reopen amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-HongKong-China-diplomacy,WRAP SYDNEY Australia offers protections for Hong Kongers living Down Under in a risky challenge to China over its crackdown on dissent in the territory. 600 words by 0600 GMT. Health-virus-Australia-lockdown MELBOURNE Five million people in Australia's second-biggest city begin a new lockdown, returning to tough restrictions just weeks after they ended as Melbourne grapples with a resurgence of coronavirus cases. 600 words 0630 GMT by Ryan Smith Picture. Video. Graphic. Japan-rain-weather-climate-flood,WRAP KUMA, Japan Japanese troops and emergency services scramble to reach thousands of homes cut off by catastrophic flooding and landslides that have killed dozens and caused widespread damage. 700 words 0800 GMT by Charly Triballeau with Quentin Tyberghien in Takayama, Japan. Picture. Video. Graphic Oly-2020-2021-Box-JPN-Japan-virus-health,INTERVIEW TOKOROZAWA, Japan Olympic boxing hopeful Arisa Tsubata is used to taking blows in the ring but it is during her work as a nurse that she faces her toughest opponent: coronavirus. 600 words 0200 GMT by Harumi Ozawa. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-racism-police-crime-court-Floyd WASHINGTON George Floyd said he couldn't breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would "kill" him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new evidence shows. 450 words moved US-politics-justice-Trump-taxes,WRAP WASHINGTON Can Donald Trump refuse to hand over his financial records to Congress and New York prosecutors simply because he is president of the United States? The Supreme Court will rule on two related cases to answer this, with potentially widespread political implications. 750 words 0530 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. File picture Health-virus-Colombia-nature-conservation,FOCUS CALARCA, Colombia When the coronavirus pandemic swept through Colombia in March, forcing a national lockdown, Alberto Gomez decided he would sit it out amid the lush green foliage of his botanical garden and tend to his plants. 650 words 0530 GMT by Lina Vanagas. Picture. Video Health-virus-Canada-animal-IT-offbeat,VIDEOESSAY UXBRIDGE, Canada The coronavirus pandemic has led millions of people to embrace meetings via Zoom, but the novelty is wearing thin for many. So one animal sanctuary in Canada has found a solution: Meet Buckwheat the donkey, who is ready to inject some fun into your humdrum work-from-home office day -- for a price. 450 words moved by Jorge Uzon. Picture. Video US-health-virus-education-immigration,FOCUS NEW YORK Pakistani student Taimoor Ahmed is one of hundreds of thousands of foreigners enrolled at American universities now fearing for their future after Donald Trump's administration threatened to revoke their visas. 650 words moved by Thomas Urbain Health-virus-Venezuela,SCENE MARACAIBO, Venezuela The pain of breathing made butcher Elkin cry. He caught the coronavirus in a street market where he works in Maracaibo, the main city in a once-prosperous oil producing region of Venezuela that has been left destitute by a fuel shortage and frequent blackouts. It's also a virus hotspot. 750 words moved by Luis Bravo with Margioni Bermudez in Caracas. Picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Australia MELBOURNE Five million people in Australia's second-biggest city begin a new lockdown, returning to tough restrictions after an optmistic few weeks believing they had contained the coronavirus. 400 words 0200 GMT by Ryan Smith. Picture. Video HongKong-China-internet-computers-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG The decision by Chinese-owned video platform TikTok to withdraw from Hong Kong is a savvy commercial move that sidesteps thorny privacy issues and keeps one of the world's top money-making apps on its global march, experts say. 750 words 0430 GMT by James Edgar. Graphic Also moving: HongKong-China-politics-internet -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Serbia-unrest,WRAP BELGRADE The Serbian capital is hit by clashes for a second night as police clashed with protesters outraged over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words moved by Miodrag Sovilj and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video Italy-US-trial-murder ROME An American student on trial in Italy for the murder of a Rome policeman says he was kicked, punched and spat on in custody, a leaked official transcript showed. 450 words moved Russia-Arctic-minorities-politics MOSCOW Lyudmila Laptander, an activist advocating autonomy for her mineral-rich Nenets region in the Russian Arctic, worries authorities are planning to sacrifice its traditions for the promise of economic enrichment. 650 words moved by Romain Colas. Pictures. File Picture Bosnia-Srebrenica-anniversary SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Fatima Mujic prays every day for the husband and three sons killed in the genocide against Bosnian Muslims that unfolded over several summer days in the town of Srebrenica 25 years ago. 700 words moved by Rusmir Smajilhodzic. Picture. Video Also moved: Bosnia-Srebrenica-massacre Bosnia-Srebrenica-massacre-siege -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia-diplomacy-water-internet,FOCUS CAIRO As Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan struggle to resolve a long-running dispute over Addis Ababa's mega-dam project on the Nile, some of their citizens are sparring online over their rights to the mighty waterway. 750 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass Syria-conflict-silk,FOCUS HAMA, Syria After Syria's war whisked away the silkworms from his mulberry trees, 65-year-old Mohammed Saud instead turned his idle home workshop into a silk museum to celebrate the ancient craft. 630 words moved by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video. -- AFRICA -- ICoast-politics-Coulibaly ABIDJAN Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died after attending a cabinet meeting, just three months before presidential elections that he was due to contest. He was 61. 550 words moved by Patrick Fort and David Esnault afp
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