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| - Duty Editor: James Legge Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar anti-coup rallies set for third day + S.Africa suspends AstraZeneca vaccines + 200 missing after India glacier breaks + Biden takes firm line on Iran sanctions + Virus-delayed Australian Open begins Myanmar-politics-military YANGON Striking workers are set to join protests against a military coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in weekend rallies. 650 words 0430 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA South Africa suspends the start of its AstraZeneca coronavirus innoculation programme, as UN experts meet to discuss the vaccine already facing questions over its efficacy for over-65s. 750 words 0300 GMT. Picture India-glacier-flood-climate,WRAP NEW DELHI Troops aboard helicopters race to find survivors after a chunk of glacier broke off in northern India and sent torrents of water downstream, leaving at lest 200 people missing as it destroyed a dam, roads and bridges. 600 words 0430 by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Iran-sanction-nuclear,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden warns he would not take the first step toward Iran by lifting American sanctions, as Tehran has demanded before returning to its nuclear deal commitments. 600 words moved Tennis-AUS-Open, WRAP MELBOURNE Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic are the headline acts as the coronavirus-delayed first tennis Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, begins three weeks later than scheduled at Melbourne Park. 500 words at 0400 GMT. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Israel,lead JERUSALEM Israeli barbershops and some other businesses reopen, as the country began easing its third coronavirus lockdown amid an aggressive vaccination campaign. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Haiti-politics-unrest,WRAP Port-au-Prince Haitian authorities say they have foiled an attempt to murder President Jovenel Moise and overthrow the government, as a dispute rages over when his term ends. 500 words 0200 GMT by Amelie Baron Ecuador-vote,WRAP QUITO Leftist economist Andres Arauz claims "a resounding victory" as exit polls predict he would face right-wing ex-banker Guillermo Lasso in a runoff after polls close in Ecuador's general election. 650 words 0300 by Florence Panoussian. Picture US-diplomacy-economy-Shultz,OBIT WASHINGTON George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's genial secretary of state who identified a diplomatic opening that helped end the Cold War but contributed to a new brand of conflict by advocating preemptive strikes, has died. He was 100. 850 words moved by Shaun Tandon. File picture US-politics-impeachment-trial,ADVANCER WASHINGTON One year after his first impeachment, former president Donald Trump finds himself the subject of an unprecedented second trial beginning Tuesday in the Senate, whose members must determine whether he incited a deadly assault on the US Capitol. 800 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture 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 Health-virus-US-education-children,FOCUS NEW YORK Anxiety, depression, self-harm and even suicide: a growing number of children in the United States are struggling with their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, doctors, teachers, parents and the government are all warning. 800 words 0200 GMT by Laura Bonilla. Video. File Picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics-corruption-trial,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to court to formally respond to the corruption charges against him, as his trial enters an intensified phase six weeks before he faces re-election. 640 words 0300 GMT File picture. File video Sudan-unrest-Darfur,FOCUS HAMADA VILLAGE, Sudan Farmer Abbas Abdullah was among hundreds who had trickled back to his remote village in South Darfur nearly a decade after fleeing war there. Now, he thinks he rushed the decision. 500 words 0230 GMT by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Europe-Netherlands-weather-snow,WRAP THE HAGUE The Netherlands is blanketed by the first major snowstorm to hit the country in 10 years as a wave of freezing weather in northern Europe disrupts planes, trains and road traffic. 550 words 0230 GMT by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video France-police-rights-Amnesty,FOCUS PARIS A slate of detentions carried out during a Paris protest by tens of thousands of people against France's controversial security bill in December were "arbitrary", Amnesty International France says. 500 words moved -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-virus-Ebola,WRAP BENI, DR Congo DR Congo announces a "resurgence" of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman dies of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country's latest outbreak. 500 words moved by Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya. File picture. File video Ethiopia-Tigray-UN-famine,lead ADDIS ABABA The head of the World Food Programme says he has reached a deal with Ethiopia to expand access for aid workers and "scale up" operations in the country's conflict-hit northern Tigray region. 500 words moved -- ASIA -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus,FOCUS TOKYO Japanese infectious disease specialist Atsuo Hamada wants to see the Olympics happen in Tokyo this summer, but he admits if they were being held elsewhere, he'd probably back a cancellation. 700 words 0300 GMT by Hiroshi Hiyama and Sara Hussein. -- SPORTS -- Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl,WRAP TAMPA, Florida Quarterback stars Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes battle for supremacy in a blockbuster Super Bowl showdown between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs. 750 words 0330 GMT. Picture Also moved: Amfoot-poetry-music-US fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Manchester City leave Liverpool's title defence in tatters as Ilkay Gundogan's double and two mistakes from Alisson Becker inspire the Premier League leaders' dazzling 4-1 win, while Harry Kane starred in Tottenham's 2-0 victory against West Bromwich Albion. 700 words moved by Steven Griffiths afp
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