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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Suu Kyi back in court after bloody day + Beyonce makes history as women sweep Grammys + Yellow haze chokes Beijing + NFL: Saints QB Brees retires + Billions of cicadas to hatch in US Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to appear in court, after one of the country's bloodiest days since the February 1 coup. 700 words 0700 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-US-music-Grammys,WRAP NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES Women win every major Grammy at a history-making gala that aims to move past a devastating year for the music industry, with Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion and Taylor Swift scoring big at the socially distanced event anchored by electrifying performances. 850 words 0530 GMT by Maggy Donaldson and Laurent Banguet. Picture. Graphic. Video China-environment-health-pollution,lead BEIJING Beijing is cloaked by a thick yellow smog with pollution surging to hazardous levels as a sandstorm swept across China's capital. 450 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video Amfoot-NFL-Saints-Brees,2ndlead LOS ANGELES New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees announces his retirement from the NFL after a prolific 20-year career that included one Super Bowl triumph. 600 words moved US-environment-nature-animal,FOCUS WASHINGTON They have spent close to two decades buried underground, waiting -- before pouring forth by the billions, filling the air with an ear-piercing racket and covering walls and floors from the US east coast to the Midwest. The cicadas are coming, and their unnerving arrival is as spectacular as it is rare. 750 words moved by Ines Bel Aiba. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP ROME Coronavirus restrictions are reimposed across much of Italy, while Ireland and the Netherlands become the latest countries to suspend AstraZeneca's Covid-19 shots over blood clot fears despite the firm and the WHO insisting there is no risk. 700 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-WHO-China-report,ADVANCER GENEVA The much-anticipated report from the international mission to Wuhan to investigate Covid-19's origins is set to be published this week, following intense US and Chinese pressure over its contents. 800 words moved by Robin Millard, Agnes Pedrero. File picture. File video Health-virus-Mexico-doctors,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Christian Cruz specialized in intubation. Jesus de la Torre gave advice over the telephone to colleagues treating coronavirus patients. Diego Gutierrez worked long days examining tumors through a microscope. The three doctors are among several thousand heath workers who have died from Covid-19 in Mexico -- which has the highest such toll in the Americas. 600 words 0630 GMT by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video -- GRAMMYS -- Entertainment-US-music-Grammys-fashion,lead LOS ANGELES Rapper Megan Thee Stallion, the queen of the hot girl summer, sizzles on the Grammys red carpet as music's biggest stars emerge from a year of pandemic lockdowns in their best couture. 600 words moved by Valerie Macon with Susan Stumme in Washington. Picture. Also moving: Entertainment-US-music-Grammys-Beyonce,FOCUS Also moved: Entertainment-US-music-Grammys-winners,FACTS Entertainment-US-music-Grammys-Kanye -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-Philippines-education,FOCUS MANILA Andrix Serrano studies alone inside a Manila slum shack he shares with his street-sweeper grandmother. Like many in his fourth-grade class, he has no internet for his shuttered school's online lessons. 850 words moved by Allison Jackson. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Bolivia-politics-prosecution,WRAP LA PAZ Former Bolivian president Jeanine Anez says she has been sentenced to four months pre-trial detention after she was arrested on charges linked to the ousting of her predecessor Evo Morales in what he claims was a coup d'etat. 800 words moved by Jose Arturo Cardenas. Picture. Video Also moved: Bolivia-politics-prosecution,CHRONO Bolivia-politics-Anez,PROFILE -- EUROPE -- Germany-vote-health-virus FRANKFURT German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party is in crisis mode after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, seen as a rebuke of its pandemic management six months before a general election. 650 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick. Picture. Video Britain-police-protest-crime-women-safety,WRAP LONDON Britain's prime minister vows to take action to better protect women after a national outpouring of grief and outrage over the death of a woman who went missing after setting out to walk home in London earlier this month. 500 words moved by James Pheby. Picture. Video Netherlands-politics-vote,WRAP THE HAGUE The Netherlands begins three days of voting Monday in a primary test of a European government's coronavirus policies, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte set to win another term in office. 650 words 0730 GMT by Danny Kemp and Sara Madniette. Video. Graphic Romania-Hungary-minorities-politics-economy,FOCUS CARTA, Romania In the village of Carta, deep in Romania's Transylvania region, the fruits of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's generosity towards the country's Hungarian ethnic minority are plain to see. 750 words 0530 GMT by Mihaela Rodina, Ionut Iordachescu. Picture. Video Finland-environment-climate-trees-charity,FOCUS JOENSUU, Finland It's an environmental policy embraced by heads of state, multinational businesses and even leading climate sceptic Donald Trump: plant more trees to help the planet and slow global warming. 600 words moved by Sam Kingsley. Video. Picture -- ASIA -- US-Japan-SKorea-China-diplomacy,WRAP TOKYO Top US diplomat Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin arrive in Tokyo on their first overseas trip, looking to rally key Asian allies as a bulwark to China. 550 words 0530 GMT Australia-women-assault-politics CANBERRA Women protest across Australia demanding an end to sexual violence and gender inequality, hitting the streets amid outrage over rape and sexual assault allegations that have convulsed the conservative government. 500 words by 0600 GMT. Photo and Video. Already moved: Australia-women-feminism-assault-politics,FOCUS -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-Britain-trial-rights,WRAP TEHRAN British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is back in a Tehran court, charged with "propaganda against the system", a week after she finished serving a five-year term in the Islamic republic. 700 words moved. File picture Also moved: Iran-Britain-trial,INTERVIEW Israel-vote-protest,FOCUS JERUSALEM For nearly a year Erez Yalon, a disabled Israeli, has dedicated his life to protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home almost round the clock to demand his departure from office. 750 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video. Also moved: Israel-vote-opposition-Lapid,PROFILE -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflicy-politics-Tigray ADDIS ABABA The medical charity MSF on Monday condemned a "deliberate and generalised" programme of targeting clinics in the conflict-hit Tigray region of Ethiopia. 400 words 0530 GMT CAfrica-vote,WRAP BANGUI The Central African Republic voted in the second round of a legislative election as it battles back against a rebel insurgency the government has called an attempted coup. 600 words moved by Camille Laffont. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars LOS ANGELES Streaming films like "Mank" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7" will battle with frontrunner "Nomadland" for this Monday's coveted Oscar nominations, setting up the grand finale to an awards season transformed by the pandemic. 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture afp
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