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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + WHO chief says lack of China coronavirus data + George Floyd witness regrets 'not doing more' + VW says 'Voltswagen' rebrand was early April Fool + French strike in Mali killed 19 civilians: UN + Interplanetary, most extraordinary comet visits Health-virus-China-WHO BEIJING Pressure mounts on China over the level of access granted to experts probing the origins of Covid-19, after the WHO chief revived a lab leak theory and complained of a lack of access to data. 600 words at 0530 GMT. Also moved: Health-virus-WHO-China,FOCUS Health-virus-world,FACTS US-racism-trial-police-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota The teenager who took the viral video of George Floyd's death says at the trial of the white police officer charged with killing the 46-year-old Black man that she knew at the time "it wasn't right." 750 words moved by Joy Powell with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. File Picture Video. Graphic Germany-US-automobile-environment,WRAP NEW YORK Volkswagen US' subsidiary is keeping its name and will not rename itself "Voltswagen," a company spokesman says, confirming that an earlier announcement was an April Fool's joke that may have gone further than intended. 700 words moved by John Biers Mali-unrest-France,WRAP BAMAKO A French air strike killed 19 civilians in Mali in January, a UN report says, prompting a strong denial from France. 700 words moved. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Mali-unrest-France,Q&A Space-interstellar-discovery PARIS A newly observed interstellar comet is the most pristine visitor from outer space ever seen in our Solar System, according to a pair of studies detailing its unique characteristics. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey and Marlowe Hood. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- India-culture-sport-athletics,FOCUS JAMBUR, India Rohit Majgul has weathered racism and rejection in India as part of a marginalised community tracing its roots back to Africa -- but he still dreams of bringing sporting glory to his country. 700 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video Egypt-Romania-Spain-Suez-shipping-livestock,FOCUS PARIS The blockage of the Suez Canal has cast a light on a very delicate kind of cargo: The millions of livestock shipped each year in conditions denounced by animal rights groups. 650 words moved by Nicolas Gubert Also moved: World-economy-health-virus-shipping,FOCUS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Brazil-food-hunger,FOCUS SAO PAULO The lines of homeless and other needy people waiting for free meals in the streets of Brazil are growing longer as the Covid-19 pandemic rages out of control. 750 words moved by Rodrigo Almonacid, with Eugenia Logiuratto in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video Health-virus-gender-equality-economy-WEF,lead GENEVA The pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women, according to a report showing the crisis had added decades to the trajectory towards closing the gender gap. 600 words moved by Nina Larson Health-virus-Germany-vaccines-AstraZeneca-restrict,2ndlead BERLIN Germany will deploy AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for general use only for over-60 year olds, the government says, imposing restrictions for younger people taking the jab after several severe clotting cases. 550 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Health-virus-Spain-vaccines-AstraZeneca -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The US orders the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, amid growing violence following the military coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. 650 words 0800 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military-Thailand-wounded Indonesia-accident-aviation,lead JAKARTA Indonesian investigators find a crashed jet's cockpit voice recorder, which could offer more clues as to why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged into the sea more than two months ago just minutes after takeoff, killing all 62 passengers and crew. 450 words 0600 GMT. Picture. Video. China-US-politics-diplomacy,ANALYSIS BEIJING It only took one meeting for hopes of a reset in US-China relations under a Biden presidency to evaporate -- instead alliances are fast coagulating on either side of an old dividing line: democracy. 750 words 0330 GMT by Patrick Baert -- AMERICAS -- US-Honduras-drugs-sentence-politics,WRAP NEW YORK Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother is sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country. 550 words moved US-China-rights-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States will speak out about human rights everywhere including in allies and at home, Secretary of State Antony Blinken vows, turning a page from Donald Trump as he bemoans deteriorations around the world. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture Brazil-politics-army,WRAP BRASILIA President Jair Bolsonaro replaces all three commanders of Brazil's armed forces, in a second day of upheaval in Brasilia as the far-right leader braces against mounting pressure created by an explosion of Covid-19 deaths. 750 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture -- EUROPE -- Cyprus-EU-food-halloumi NICOSIA Cyprus hails a European Union decision to recognise halloumi cheese as a product distinct to the divided eastern Mediterranean island after a seven-year wait. 400 words moved. File picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-shipping-Suez-transport,WRAP ISMAILIA, Egypt Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledges investment to avoid any repetition of the past week's closure of the Suez Canal as he pays a celebratory visit to the reopened trade artery. 700 words by moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Syria-conflict-IS-France,FOCUS ROJ, Syria In a Syrian detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-of-five Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap. 850 words moved by Delil Souleiman. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-UN-EU-aid,WRAP BRUSSELS International donors pledge $6.4 billion in aid for Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries, falling well short of a UN target aimed at dealing with growing needs. 700 words moved by Max Delany. Picture. Video Morocco-women-cartoon-books,FOCUS CASABLANCA Young Moroccan cartoonist Zainab Fasiki draws on a whiteboard in a Casablanca studio where she is holding a workshop that mixes art with a homegrown illustrated #MeToo campaign. 650 words moved by Sophie Pons. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICC-ICoast-unrest-Gbagbo,WRAP THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court will rule whether to uphold the acquittal of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, the first head of state to stand trial at the tribunal. 600 words moved by Danny Kemp Mozambique-unrest,WRAP PEMBA, Mozambique Sporadic clashes break out in Palma as thousands of residents hide around the besieged northern Mozambique town, scrambling to escape the area overrun by jihadist militants, aid agencies say. 850 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Mozambique-unrest-jihadists-energy,FOCUS Africa-conflict-jihadists,FOCUS -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-environment-economy-agriculture-forests PARIS An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet's tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to new research. 750 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic Markets-stocks-climate-fossil-fuels-finance PARIS Share offerings in fossil fuel producing and related companies lost $123 billion in the last decade, underperforming a baseline world equities index by 52 percent, according to new analysis. 600 words moved by Patrick Galey Climate-economy-coal-gas-subsidies PARIS No major economy in the world has carbon pricing policies even remotely in line with the Paris climate treaty goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degree Celsius, the OECD says. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood afp
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