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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump says Democrats trying to 'steal' election + Rage over US police shooting of black man + Dozens trapped in India building collapse + 'Butcher of Bosnia' genocide appeal opens + Africa to be declared polio-free US-politics-vote-Republicans-Trump,WRAP CHARLOTTE, North Carolina US Republicans launch their national convention with a full-throated endorsement of President Donald Trump's record and lay out a bleak vision of how American life would change for the worse under a Joe Biden administration. 750 words moved by Brendan Smialowski with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic US-police-shooting-racism,WRAP KENOSHA, Wisconsin Police fire tear gas when a protest demanding racial justice in the city of Kenosha in Wisconsin turns violent, as rage builds once more in the US at the shooting of a black man by a white officer. 700 words moved by Robert Chiarito. Picture India-accident-collapse,2ndlead MAHAD, India Rescuers in India pull a four-year-old boy from the rubble to loud cheers, hours after the five-storey apartment building he was in collapsed "like a house of cards", burying up to 70 people. 550 words 0930 GMT by Punit Paranjpe. Live video. Video. Picture. Graphic Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial,WRAP THE HAGUE Defence lawyers open their appeal against Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's life sentence for genocide over the Srebrenica massacre and other war crimes. 600 words 1100 GMT by Danny Kemp with Jovan Matic in Belgrade and Rusmir Smajlhodzic in Belgrade. Video Also moved: Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial-Mladic,PROFILE Also moving: UN-Serbia-Bosnia-warcrimes,FACTS Nigeria-vaccines-epidemic,WRAP LAGOS The World Health Organization is set to certify that the African continent is free from wild polio, four years after the last cases appeared in northeastern Nigeria. 700 words moved by Sophie Bouillon with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. File picture. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Belarus-vote-unrest,WRAP MINSK The exiled leader of Belarus's opposition addresses the European parliament as the ex-Soviet government clamps down on critics calling for new elections and their strongman leader's resignation after disputed elections. 650 words 1130 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Italy-migrants-politics,FOCUS ROME Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Italy's second generation of immigrants is renewing the fight for automatic citizenship in a land where migration is at the heart of the political debate. 700 words moved by Riccardo Antoniucci. File picture Czech-music-manufacturing-lifestyle,FOCUS VELKE NEMCICE, Czech Republic Born during a shortage of guitars in former Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, the Furch family company is now selling instruments to global stars out of its workshop in a former mill. 400 words moved by Jan Flemr. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Sudan-US-Israel-UAE,WRAP KHARTOUM US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads for Sudan on a tour urging Arab and Muslim countries to normalise ties with Israel, following the Jewish state's landmark US-brokered deal with the United Arab Emirates. 600 words 1200 GMT by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Also moving: Sudan-politics,FOCUS Iran-nuclear-politics-UN,WRAP TEHRAN The head of the UN atomic watchdog is expected to press Iran for access to two suspected nuclear sites during a visit that comes at a time of heightened tensions over a US bid to reimpose sanctions. 600 words 1030 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-water-Kurds-Turkey,FOCUS HASAKEH, Syria Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid says her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. 800 words moved by Delil Souleiman. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-Syria,FOCUS BEIRUT Ahmad had saved his family from Syria's brutal war by bringing them to Lebanon, but then Beirut's massive blast ripped his wife and two of their daughters away forever. 700 words moved by Rouba El Husseini. Picture. Video Egypt-agriculture-jasmine,FOCUS SHUBRA BELOULA, Egypt At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day's work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta. 700 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-education-religion-politics-Falwell WASHINGTON US evangelical leader and ardent Donald Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned as head of a leading Christian university following reports about his sex life, US media say. 500 words moved US-IT-China-politics-TikTok,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Video app TikTok files a lawsuit challenging the US government's crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat. 700 words moved by Glenn Chapman Weather-Cuba-US-Haiti-Dominican,WRAP HAVANA Tropical Storm Laura pounds Cuba with heavy rains as it barrels toward the US, where forecasters predict it will strengthen to a hurricane after leaving 24 people dead and a swath of destruction in the Caribbean. 500 words moved by Moises Avila with Amelie Baron in Port-au-Prince. Picture. Video Canada-environment-conservation-pandemic,FOCUS TORONTO In the shadow of Canada's largest cluster of skyscrapers, Toronto is looking to preserve a majestic, centuries-old oak tree -- but efforts have been complicated by the pandemic. 650 words moved by Olivier Monnier. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP SEOUL Millions of South Korean students return to online classes and Mexico launches a nationwide televised schooling programme, highlighting the deepening crisis for children as the coronavirus pandemic drags into a ninth month. 650 words 0930 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-education-Mexico,lead MEXICO CITY Tens of millions of Mexican schoolchildren begin a new school year with lessons through their televisions in a nationwide experiment in distance learning prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-Conways,FOCUS WASHINGTON The coronavirus pandemic is forcing parents across the United States to make all manner of adjustments to cope with children who will be at home instead of at school. 750 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File Picture -- ASIA -- NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court CHRISTCHURCH Two impassioned survivors of the New Zealand mosque massacre abandon prepared statements to vent their anger directly at gunman Brenton Tarrant in a Christchurch court, drawing applause from fellow victims as they call him a terrorist who deserves to die. 650 words moved by Chris Foley. Picture. Video Bangladesh-Myanmar-Rohingya-refugee,WRAP KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Almost a million Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh mark three years since escaping from Myanmar, with coronavirus forcing them to hold a day-long "silent protest" inside their flimsy, leaky huts. 600 words moved by Sam Jahan. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-CapeVerde-Japan-virus-travel-health,FOCUS TOKYO A pair of Japanese honeymooners stranded in Cape Verde by the coronavirus pandemic have been named unlikely ambassadors for the tropical paradise's Olympic team at next year's Tokyo Games. 600 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Cycling-Tour-FRA-2020 PARIS Tough, unsentimental and dominant in cycling for more than a decade, Dave Brailsford wielded his axe ahead of the Tour de France this week and was then compared by one of his earlier victims to former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. 550 words moved. File picture afp
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