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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US charges six Russians with series of cyberattacks + Europe takes urgent measures to counter virus surge + Early polling kicks off in pivotal state of Florida + Islamist networks targeted over beheading in France + Bottle-fed babies eating microplastic pieces: study US-Russia-justice-cyber,WRAP WASHINGTON Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the United States with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine's power grid, the 2017 French elections and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the Justice Department announces. 700 words moved by Chris Lefkow Health-virus,WRAP DUBLIN European countries take urgent new measures to combat a second wave of coronavirus infections, as the World Health Organization blamed the surge in worldwide cases -- now more than 40 million -- on countries' failure to quarantine infected people properly. 850 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote,WRAP MIAMI Florida voters converge on early polling stations in a pivotal state fought over relentlessly by President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, as their contentious White House race enters its final 15-day stretch. 750 words 0130 GMT by Leila Macor with Mandel Ngan in Prescott, Arizona. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: US-vote-HunterBiden-politics,FOCUS France-attack,WRAP PARIS French police launch a series of raids targeting Islamist networks three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. 700 words 0300 GMT by Alexandre Hielard and Clare Byrne. Picture. Video. Graphic Environment-health-infants-plastics PARIS Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research shows, highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products. 500 words moved by Amelie Bottollier-Depois. Graphic -- US VOTE -- US-vote-poverty-racism,FOCUS BALTIMORE, Maryland Demon Lane says his east Baltimore neighborhood will still be blighted by drug dealing, deadly gunfire, rat-infested vacant houses and hopelessness, no matter who wins America's presidential election in November. 700 words 0200 by Joshua Melvin. Pictures by Brendan Smialowski. Video by Gilles Clarenne US-vote-diplomacy-trade-China,FOCUS BEIJING Donald Trump's first term has been rough on China, with war over trade and tech amplified by daily mudslinging, yet Beijing may welcome his re-election as it scans the horizon for the decline of its superpower rival. 750 words 0330 GMT by Patrick Baert US-vote-Mideast-Gulf-diplomacy,FOCUS DUBAI Brandishing a sword and dancing to traditional music on his first visit to Saudi Arabia soon after taking office, Donald Trump launched a dramatic relationship revamp that freed the hands of the Gulf monarchies. 850 words 0300 GMT by Mohamad Ali Harissi. File picture. * Please see our US Election Special Advisory for full filing plan * -- AMERICAS -- Chile-protests,WRAP SANTIAGO President Sebastian Pinera strongly condemns the burning of two churches and other violence that marred anti-government demonstrations as Chile prepares to hold a landmark constitutional referendum. 650 words moved by Paulina Abramovich. Picture. Video Bolivia-vote-Morales,WRAP LA PAZ Exiled former president Evo Morales signals his intention to return to Bolivia after his leftist heir Luis Arce's sweeping presidential election victory. 700 words moved by Valeria Pacheco with Nina Negron in Buenos Aires. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India-economy,FOCUS SINNAR, India India will likely soon have the world's most coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets people are back at work -- and eager to forget the epidemic for festival season. 750 words 0330 GMT by Ammu Kannampilly with Satyajit Shaw in Kolkata. Video. Picture Thailand-politics-royals-unrest-HongKong,FOCUS BANGKOK Umbrellas as shields, secure chat groups and hand signals as warnings of a pending police crackdown -- Thailand's pro-democracy protesters have taken lessons from their counterparts in Hong Kong to amplify calls for democratic reforms. 700 words 0330 GMT by Vijitra Duangdee and Dene-Hern Chen. File Picture. File Video -- EUROPE -- Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP STEPANAKERT A new ceasefire agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan to halt fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh again fails to hold as both sides accuse each other of fresh attacks. 550 words moved. Picture. Video. Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,SCENE Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain welcomes signals that the European Union is ready to intensify stalled post-Brexit trade talks, but says its commitments did not yet go far enough to restart face-to-face negotiations. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi and Joe Jackson with Dave Clark in Brussels. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Spain-hospital LEGANES, MADRID At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic's first wave, the intensive care unit is once again full and exhausted medics dread a repeat of the same "horror". 550 words 0230 GMT by Thomas Perroteau. Picture. Video Germany-demo-climate-Rackete,PROFILE DANNENROD Eighteen months ago, German ship captain Carola Rackete was hailed a hero by refugee campaigners after she defied the authorities by steering a migrant rescue vessel into the port of Lampedusa. 650 words 0230 GMT by Yannick Pasquet. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Cyprus-TRNC-vote-Turkey,WRAP NICOSIA Republic of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and the newly elected leader of the divided island's breakaway north have agreed to meet, a spokesman for his government says. 550 words moved Also moved: Cyprus-TRNC-vote-Turkey,Q&A -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-police-unrest,WRAP LAGOS Nigerian protesters paralyse Africa's biggest city Lagos, blocking the airport as widespread demonstrations sparked by police brutality spiral. 600 words moved by Sophie Bouillon with Emmanuel Anule in Abuja. Guinea-vote,WRAP CONAKRY Guinea's opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo declared, without waiting for official results, that he had won a presidential election against incumbent Alpha Conde, who is seeking a controversial third term. 750 words moved by Laurent Lozano and Carol Valade. Picture. Video. Graphic Kenya-environment-climate-geography-tourism,FOCUS BARINGO Peering into the lake, the village elder struggled to pinpoint where beneath the hyacinth and mesquite weeds lay the farm he lived in his entire life until the water rose like never before and swallowed everything. 900 words 0230 GMT by Nick Perry. Picture. Video afp
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