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| - Duty Editor: Katy Lee Email: engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Palestinians try to piece lives back together after ceasefire + 'Ecological disaster' feared as Greece battles forest fire + Glittery Eurovision hopes to lift pandemic gloom + Air India hackers steal data on 4.5 million passengers + China's Mars rover roams the Red Planet Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Gazans try to piece their lives back together after a devastating 11-day conflict with Israel that caused critical shortages of essential supplies in the impoverished Palestinian enclave. 750 words 1600 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Graphic. Video. Live Video Greece-fire,WRAP ATHENS Hundreds of firefighters battle Greece's first major forest fire of the summer as experts warn of a "huge ecological disaster" in the nature conservation area near Athens. 550 words 1800 GMT by Marina Rafenberg. Picture. Graphic Entertainment-music-Eurovision-Netherlands,WRAP ROTTERDAM Fans gather in Rotterdam as the Eurovision Song Contest final returns from a year off with a glittery, kitschy message of hope in the time of coronavirus. 700 words 1500 GMT by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video. Live video India-aviation-hacking MUMBAI Hackers have stolen data on about 4.5 million Air India passengers around the world in the latest breach reported by a major airline. 300 words moved Space-China-science-Mars SHANGHAI China's Mars rover has driven from its landing platform and begun exploring the surface, state-run Xinhua news agency says, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. 400 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- France-water-environment,FOCUS VOLVIC, France The lush volcanic hills surrounding Volvic in central France have long been a source of mineral water prized worldwide, but locals and geologists warn that too much is now being pumped out, putting the entire region at risk. 750 words moved by Celine Castella. Picture Mexico-women-children-indigenous,FOCUS METLATONOC, Mexico Eloina Feliciano begged her mother not to sell her into marriage aged 14 under an ancestral tradition in their indigenous community in Mexico, but her pleas were in vain. 650 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video Greece-language-education-history-game,FOCUS ATHENS Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby daughter will likely never fully learn the distinctive oral tradition of her ancestors that dates back centuries. 800 words moved by John Hadoulis. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-patents-WTO GENEVA Dozens of countries have revised a proposal at the WTO for patent waivers for medical tools needed to combat Covid, insisting it must be broader than just vaccines. 600 words moved by Nina Larson Health-virus-Europe-travel,Q&A BRUSSELS The "EU digital Covid certificate" comes into use on July 1. How will it use data on coronavirus vaccinations, tests and immunity to usher in a return to summer tourism and non-essential travel across the 27-nation bloc? 600 words moved by Anne-Laure Mondesert. File picture Health-virus-Hungary-vaccine-Roma,FOCUS KISTARCSA, Hungary Hungary's Roma community has been largely left out of the country's aggressive Covid-19 immunisation rollout and been forced to fend for itself, leaders of the poverty-stricken minority say. 700 words moved by Peter Murphy. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-media-royals-Diana-BBC LONDON A former BBC chief who was criticised for his "woefully ineffective" probe into Martin Bashir's deception in securing a bombshell interview with Princess Diana resigns as chair of Britain's National Gallery. 500 words moved by James Pheby. File picture Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-children,UPDATE CEUTA, Spain Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory. 850 words 1430 GMT by Hazel Ward and Noemi Gragera. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-politics,FOCUS JERUSALEM After a ceasefire with Israel, Islamist group Hamas has claimed "victory" for Palestinians but the militants' success lies more in marginalising its political rival Fatah than in battle, analysts say. 750 words 1500 GMT by Claire Gounon Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FACTS -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-Belgium-politics-history,FOCUS BRUSSELS Sixty years after Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated and dissolved in acid, former colonial power Belgium is to restore his last remains -- a single tooth -- to his family. 700 words moved by Matthieu Demesteere. Video. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-China-Taiwan-nuclear-history WASHINGTON US military planners pushed for nuclear strikes on mainland China in 1958 in case of an invasion of Taiwan by Communist forces, a document leaked to the New York Times shows. 400 words 1500 GMT by Carlos Hamann. File picture US-politics-prisoners-conflict-Guantanamo,WRAP WASHINGTON The approved release of three detainees locked up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for nearly two decades has raised expectations that President Joe Biden might try to close the notorious US military prison. 800 words moved by Paul Handley Chile-women-politics-election,INTERVIEW SANTIAGO Until last Sunday, Iraci Hassler was a relative unknown in her native Chile, but the 30-year-old economist is set to take the reins as the first communist mayor of the municipality of Santiago, the area at the heart of the capital. 700 words moved by Paula Bustamante. Picture. Graphic -- ASIA -- Health-Virus-India-politics-Modi,Q&A NEW DELHI India is suffering a coronavirus catastrophe with millions of infections and nearly 300,000 dead but it is likely to have limited impact on the political fortunes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 650 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar and Bhuvan Bagga. Video -- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT -- Britain-music-Glastonbury-livestream,lead LONDON The Glastonbury Festival will livestream a concert featuring Coldplay at its famous farm site in southwest England, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the blockbuster event's cancellation for the second consecutive summer. 500 words 2000 GMT. File picture. File video Italy-Venice-architecture-leisure,FOCUS VENICE, Italy The world's most prestigious architecture event, the Venice Architecture Biennale, opens for a six-month show exploring the question of coexistence in a post-pandemic world. 550 words moved by Kelly Velasquez. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Auto-Prix-Mon,lead MONACO Local boy Charles Leclerc claims pole in Monaco Grand Prix with Max Verstappen second and championship leader Lewis Hamilton seventh. 600 words 1500 GMT. Picture RugbyU-Eur-Champions,lead LONDON First-time finalists La Rochelle take on four-time winners Toulouse in an all-French European Champions Cup final at Twickenham. 600 words 1830 GMT by Julian Guyer. Picture Fbl-Esp-Liga,lead MADRID Last day of the Spanish Liga season with Atletico Madrid leading the table but if they slip, Real Madrid are poised to pounce and grab title. 600 words 1830 GMT by Thomas Allnutt. Picture Golf-USPGA,lead KIAWEH ISLAND, United States Phil Mickelson, chasing a historic sixth major title at age 50, shares the lead with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen as the third round of the PGA Championship tees off at windy Kiawah Island. 600 words 1500 GMT by Jim Slater. Picture. Video afp
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