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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Record deaths in Russia as EU eyes summer travels + Scores dead as heat wave engulfs western Canada, US + Bill Cosby free after sex crimes conviction quashed + Ex-US defense secretary Donald Rumsfield dead at 88 + Falling stars Djokovic, Kyrgios progress at Wimbledon Health-virus,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's Covid-19 death toll hits a new record as the country battles the highly infectious Delta variant, while Europe gears up for the launch of an EU-wide Covid certificate to boost its devastated tourism industry. 800 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-Russia,3rdlead Canada-US-weather-climate-death,WRAP VANCOUVER, British Columbia Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States are under heat alerts as the region bakes in record-breaking temperatures and police report scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions. 650 words 2030 GMT by Michel Comte. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-television-assault-Cosby,WRAP NEW YORK US comedian Bill Cosby is freed from prison, in a blow to the #MeToo movement, after a US court overturns his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. 650 words 1930 GMT by Peter Hutchison. File picture Also moving: Entertainment-US-television-Cosby,PROFILE US-politics-military-Rumsfeld,OBIT WASHINGTON Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who led the nation into war in Afghanistan and Iraq during the presidency of George W Bush, has died at the age of 88 in New Mexico, his family announces. 600 words 2030 GMT by Tennis-GBR-Wimbledon,WRAP LONDON Five-time champion Novak Djokovic overcomes a series of falls on Centre Court to reach the Wimbledon third round for the 15th time as Australian firebrand Nick Kyrgios wins his first match in four months. 650 words 2030 GMT Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mexico-politics-gender-rights,FOCUS MEXICO CITY As a teenager Salma Luevano was once jailed for dressing as a woman. Three decades later she is one of Mexico's first two newly elected transgender members of Congress. 600 words moved by Natalia Cano. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-coup,FOCUS BANGKOK With bars shuttered, universities empty and hook-up apps poleaxed by internet blackouts, dating got much harder in post-coup Myanmar, but young people are still finding love -- often in the heady rush of anti-junta protests. 750 words moved by Natalia Che, with Ei San in Hong Kong. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-EU-tourism,FOCUS PARIS EU-wide Covid travel certificate coming into force on Thursday and easier travel for the rest of the world are fanning hopes that European tourism will slowly emerge from its worst period in living memory. 1,000 words moved by Jurgen Hecker. Picture Health-virus-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON Neither the threat of dying from Covid nor an array of inducements from lottery tickets to guns and marijuana have been enough to sway America's staunchest vaccine holdouts. 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- AMERICAS -- Canada-indigenous-school-church,WRAP OTTAWA Another 182 unmarked graves are discovered at a third indigenous residential school in Canada as two Catholic churches go up in flames, with anger mounting over a mushrooming abuse scandal at indigenous residential schools. 700 words 1930 GMT by Michel Comte US-crime-abuse-cult-entertainment NEW YORK "Smallville" actress Allison Mack is sentenced to three years in prison for her role in recruiting sex slaves to Keith Raniere's controversial NXIVM cult. 300 words 200 GMT. Picture. Video Haiti-crime-police-shootings,WRAP PORT-AU-PRINCE At least 15 people including a journalist and an opposition activist are killed in Haiti in overnight violence suspected to be revenge attacks after the death of a police officer, officials say. 500 words 1930 GMT by Amelie Baron US-politics-NewYork,WRAP NEW YORK The battle to be New York's next mayor is in disarray after the city's election authorities removed preliminary results that had showed the contest narrowing. 400 words moved by Peter Hutchison US-politics-Trump-immigration, WRAP WESLACO, Texas Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border to denounce an immigration crisis he said has become "more dangerous" than ever, using an underlying theme of his presidency to rail against his successor Joe Biden. 650 words 2030 GMT by Fracois Picard with Michael Mathes in Washington. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia-warcrimes-court-UN,WRAP THE HAGUE Two former Serbian spy chiefs in Slobodan Milosevic's regime are convicted of war crimes in a UN court, in a retrial on charges of running death squads in the 1990s Balkans wars. 700 words moved by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video. Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,2ndlead LONDON The threat of a "sausage war" between the UK and the European Union is averted after both sides agree to delay the need for checks on chilled meat shipped to Northern Ireland. 650 words moved by James Pheby with Alex Pigman in Brussels. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-NIreland-court-EU-Brexit-politics-trade -- MIDEAST -- Algeria-politics-government,WRAP ALGIERS Algerian Finance Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane is named prime minister following legislative elections earlier this month and as the country seeks to curb a deep socio-economic crisis. 600 words 1930 GMT by Abdelhafid Daamache with Philippe Agret in Paris. File picture. Video Iraq-conflict-US-Iran,Q&A BAGHDAD The US launched deadly air strikes on pro-Iranian armed groups in Iraq and Syria this week, so are Washington and Tehran risking an explosive new confrontation? 750 words moved by Ammar Karim -- AFRICA -- CAfrica-unrest-Russia-UN BANGUI The Central African Republic dismisses as "slanderous" allegations by UN experts who said government troops and Russian military personnel had committed rights abuses. 500 words moved Ethiopia-Eritrea-Tigray-conflict ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia's leaders seek to play down the significance of the army's pullback from the regional capital of war-hit Tigray, insisting they can retake the city from rebels whenever they want. 450 words moved. File pictures. Graphic Liberia-conflict-religion,FOCUS MONROVIA Former Liberian rebel General Butt Naked, notorious for sacrificing children and charging into battle in the nude, now spends his time trying to rescue ex-child soldiers from drugs. 800 words moved by Zoom Dosso. Video. Pictures. Graphic -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-coup-prisoners,lead YANGON Myanmar authorities release more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons across the country, including local journalists jailed after reporting critically on the junta's bloody crackdown. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military-coup,FOCUS -- SPORT -- Cycling-Tour-FRA,WRAP LAVAL Defending champion Tadej Pogacar fires out a defiant warning to would-be Tour de France title contenders by storming fifth stage individual time-trial while Mathieu van der Poel clung on to the overall leader's yellow jersey. 700 words moved by Damian McCall. Pucture. Graphic Also moved: Cycling-Tour-FRA-spectator-arrest,WRAP Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS England's defeat of Germany sends a nation's expectations of silverware after a 55-year wait skyrocketing as Gareth Southgate's side join heavyweights Spain, Italy and Belgium in the Euro 2020 quarter-finals. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. 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