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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + China virus deaths top SARS toll at over 800 + Thai city mourns after rogue soldier shooting + Vote count starts in close Irish election + Democrats scrap for New Hampshire votes + Hollywood awards season comes to close China-health-virus,WRAP BEIJING The death toll from the novel coronavirus surges past 800 in mainland China, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization says the outbreak appears to be "stabilising". 800 words moved by Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: China-health-virus-countries,FACTS Thailand-crime-shooting,WRAP NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand Holding candles and writing condolences as monks chanted prayers, hundreds of Thais held an evening vigil Sunday for the 30 victims of an "unprecedented" mass shooting carried out by a soldier. 800 words moved by Thanaporn Promyamyai and Dene-Hern Chen. Photo. Video. Graphic Ireland-vote,WRAP-update DUBLIN Irish officials start counting votes in a general election forecast to put prime minister Leo Varadkar's party in a historic three-way tie after a surge from republican party Sinn Fein. 700 words 1530 GMT by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video. US-politics-vote,WRAP MANCHESTER, United States Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg carry their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination to the nation's airwaves as they scrap for votes with just two days to go before the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire. 750 words 1630 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP HOLLYWOOD, United States Hollywood's awards season comes to a close at the Oscars, with war epic "1917" battling a South Korean thriller for glory as a row swirls over the lack of minorities on the night's star-studded nominee list. 700 words 1700 GMT by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-figures,POINTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-museum Entertainment-US-film-Spirit-Awards,WRAP -- CHINA VIRUS -- China-health-virus-censorship BEIJING The death of a whistleblowing doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the new coronavirus sparks rare calls for political reform and free speech in China. 500 words moved China-health-virus-HongKong-economy,FOCUS HONG KONG Traders in Hong Kong's border towns are lamenting plunging business during the coronavirus outbreak but some residents say they are enjoying the absence of crowds of Chinese mainlanders. 600 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture China-health-virus-vaccines,FOCUS SINGAPORE Scientists from the United States to Australia are using new technology in an ambitious, multi-million-dollar drive to develop a vaccine in record time to tackle China's coronavirus outbreak. 750 words moved by Catherine Lai. Picture China-health-virus-France,SCENE CARRY-LE-ROUET, France A barber offers expert haircuts, a teacher gives French lessons and participants practise Tai chi. It's not a scene from a Mediterranean holiday camp but evacuees from China's virus-stricken Wuhan trying to restore a semblance of normality to their lives during a two-week quarantine. 900 words 1530 GMT by Sebastien Ricci. Picture. Video. -- EUROPE -- Azerbaijan-parliament-vote,WRAP BAKU Voters in Azerbaijan go to the polls in early parliamentary elections decried by the opposition as a sham vote that will strengthen President Ilham Aliyev's grip on power without bringing any real change. 650 words 1530 GMT by Elman Mamedov. Picture. Video Switzerland-homosexuality-referendum,WRAP GENEVA Switzerland votes strongly in favour of a new law against homophobia in a referendum, despite opposition from the populist rightwing Swiss People's Party. 550 words 1530 GMT by Dario Thuburn. File picture. File video. Europe-weather-storms,WRAP LONDON Britain and Ireland hunker down as Storm Ciara leaves homes without power, wipes out sports events and disrupts travel around northwestern Europe. 600 words 1530 GMT by Robin Millard. Picture. Video. Graphic. Russia-France-Germany-Belgium-crime-justice,FOCUS Lille, France The brutal knife murder in the northern French city of Lille of a Chechen blogger critical of the authorities in the northern Caucasus region prompts suspicion and accusations but, so far, no firm conclusions. 700 words moved by Julia Pavesi and Stuart Williams in Paris -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-aerospace-satellite,WRAP TEHRAN Iran starts counting down to the launch of a scientific observation satellite that is part of a programme the United States has previously labelled a "provocation". 650 words 1600 GMT by Amir Havasi. File Picture. Video Syria-conflict-Idlib,SCENE MAARET MISRIN, Syria Exhausted from days of driving in search of shelter in northwestern Syria, 38-year-old Ghossoon says she has no idea where her family will go after fleeing regime and Russian bombardment. 750 words moved by Aaref Wated. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Cameroon-politics-vote,WRAP YAOUNDE Cameroon votes in parliamentary elections overshadowed by a partial opposition boycott and separatist violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. 650 words moved by Joseph Sotinel, with Jean-Baptiste Ketchateng in Buea. Picture. Video Kenya-politics-Moi,WRAP NAIROBI Kenyans queue in the capital to view the body of the country's longest-serving leader Daniel arap Moi, which is lying in state ahead of a state funeral. 550 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Science-space-Solar-orbiter,WRAP MIAMI The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter launches from Florida's Cape Canaveral bound for the Sun. 400 words 1700 GMT US-politics-vote-Biden,FOCUS MANCHESTER After suffering a drubbing in Iowa and conceding he will likely lose New Hampshire next Tuesday, Joe Biden is under immense pressure to turn his floundering presidential campaign around. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video US-politics-Trump-presidency,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's impeachment acquittal has delivered the White House a fresh burst of power, sparking worries over the rise of an "imperial presidency". 850 words moved GMT by Paul Handley. Picture. File Picture US-immigration-border-rights,FOCUS MARFA, United States It only took a moment for US Border Patrol agents to spot a flash of colour in a steep-sided canyon, then to identify a man in a black cap lying on a rock. 750 words moved by Julia Benarrous. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Thailand-crime-shooting-escape,SCENE NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall, shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside. 550 words moved by Dene-Hern Chen in Nakhon Ratchasima with Aidan Jones in Bangkok. Picture. Video - SPORTS - Judo-FRA-Oly2020-Riner PARIS One of sport's longest winning runs comes to an end when two-time Olympic and eight-time judo world champion Teddy Riner was beaten for the first time in over nine years. 130 words moved afp
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