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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Azerbaijan vows revenge after deadly strike + Chechen suspected of beheading French teacher + Trump campaigns in key states to fight Biden surge + World sees highest single-day spike in virus cases + Ardern on course for landslide in NZ vote Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict,WRAP GANJA President Ilham Aliyev vows to take to revenge on Armenia after a missile strike killed 12 sleeping people in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja, in a dramatic escalation in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. 800 words 0930 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video. Graphic France-attacks,WRAP CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who showed his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old Chechen, a source says, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "Islamist terror attack". 700 words 1000 GMT by Alice Fefebvre and Eleonore Dermy. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote,WRAP MACON, Georgia President Donald Trump fights to recover from sinking election polls by campaigning in Florida with a hardline pitch to America's right wing, claiming that his Democratic opponent Joe Biden would deliver communism and a "flood" of criminal immigrants. 650 words moved by Brendan Smialowski, with Sebastian Smith and Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-Biden-Michigan Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Coronavirus cases in the United States top eight million as the world sees the highest-ever number reported in a single day, while European countries tighten measures to control the pandemic's spread. 850 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic NZealand-vote-health-virus,WRAP WELLINGTON Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is on track to achieve an unprecedented outright majority in New Zealand's general election, leveraging success battling Covid-19 to gain a second term and the chance to implement her reform agenda. 650 words 1000 GMT by Neil Sands. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Thailand-politics-royals-demonstration,WRAP BANGKOK Thai pro-democracy protesters vow to again defy an emergency decree banning gatherings after days of confrontations that have seen riot police use water cannon and dozens of activists arrested. 650 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics-democracy HONG KONG An elderly woman who disappeared midway through Hong Kong's democracy protests last year resurfaces in the financial hub after 14 months away, saying she had been detained on the Chinese mainland. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics,WRAP BERLIN The three men vying to lead German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party go head-to-head in an online debate, in a bid to revive a race that has been knocked off course by the pandemic. 550 words 1000 GMT by Femke Colborne. File picture Bulgaria-politics,FOCUS SOFIA In a hundred days of sweeping and at times violent protests, thousands of Bulgarians have tightened the screws on the political elite -- but this, they say, is only the beginning. 650 words moved. Picture. Video Spain-drugs-cannabis,FOCUS SAN ESTEBAN SASROVIRAS, Spain It is the dead of night when police storm a house near Barcelona where hundreds of cannabis plants are growing in the basement under the glare of a sea of heat lamps. After decades as the gateway for Moroccan hashish to enter Europe, Spain is now seeing illegal plantations multiply as the country morphs into a cannabis production hub, attracting criminal gangs from across the continent. 800 words moved by Daniel Bosque and Anahi Aradas. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-protest-anniversary,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanon marks the first anniversary of a non-sectarian protest movement that has rocked the political elite but has yet to achieve its goal of sweeping reform. 650 words 0930 GMT by Layal Abou Rahal. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Guinea-politics-vote-economy,FOCUS CONAKRY Fatou Conte and Diabate Famoro, two low-income workers in Guinea's bustling seaside capital Conakry, are divided on President Alpha Conde's economic success, just one illustration of the controversy over his bid for a third term. 700 words moved by Laurent Lozano and Carol Valade. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Mexico-US-politics-arrest,WRAP NEW YORK A former Mexican defense minister has been detained in the United States and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering in the latest high-profile arrest linked to the country's powerful cartels. 700 words moved by Laura Bonilla with Sofia Miselem in Mexico City. File Picture. Video Also moved: Mexico-US-politics-drugs,FACTS US-vote-Arizona-rancher,FOCUS LOS ANGELES In 2016, Arizona rancher Jim Chilton was so excited about the election of Donald Trump as president that he said his socks were "rolling up and down." Four years later, the 81-year-old is just as enthusiastic about the upcoming US election and has no doubt which candidate is getting his vote. 750 words moved by Jocelyn Zablit. File Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-US-flu-vaccine-misinformation,FOCUS WASHINGTON US health officials are pushing Americans to get vaccinated against the flu to help prevent hospitals already busy battling Covid-19 from being overwhelmed this winter, but false claims are threatening their efforts. 750 words moved by Marisha Goldhamer. File Picture Health-virus-Turkey-theatre,FOCUS ISTANBUL Asmali Sahne, an independent theatre in Istanbul, applied for desperately needed state funds as it tries to survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but its request was turned down. 850 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture. Video Health-virus-Venezuela-education-internet,FOCUS CARACAS Thumbing his mobile phone, Jonathan Figueroa sits on his doorstep in a desperate daily quest for a Wifi signal to download his homework. Battered by the pandemic and economic collapse, Venezuela's lost generation of schoolchildren have little chance of linking up regularly with online classes given the country's fickle internet coverage. 600 words moved by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video afp
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