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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar's generals strangle Facebook after coup + Top Republican refuses to punish QAnon backer + Netflix's 'Mank' tops Globes nominations + Olympic chief faces resignation calls over sexism + Covid halts play at Australian warm-ups Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's generals order internet providers to restrict access to Facebook, days after they seized power, as UN chief Antonio Guterres said the world must rally to ensure the military putsch fails. 750 words 0700 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-Republicans-Greene,lead WASHINGTON The top US House Republican refuses to punish QAnon-backing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, snubbing a growing chorus of calls to remove the controversial lawmaker from two committees over her incendiary rhetoric. 500 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic. Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes,WRAP LOS ANGELES Netflix's "Mank," a black-and-white drama that dives into Hollywood's Golden Age with the making of "Citizen Kane," tops the nominations for the pandemic-delayed Golden Globes, as female directors finally break through with multiple nods. 750 word moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes-nominees,FACTS Oly-2020-2021-Mori-sexism,2ndLEAD TOKYO Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori faces resignation calls after saying women talk too much in meetings, piling on the woes for organisers already battling doubts about holding the Games while virus infections surge worldwide. 650 words 0600 GMT. Picture. Video. Live video Tennis-AUS-Open-health-virus,lead MELBOURNE Play is halted in six Australian Open tennis warm-up events and hundreds of players and officials isolate after a Covid-positive case at a tournament hotel, causing fresh problems for the coronavirus-delayed first Grand Slam of the year. 500 words at 0300 by Martin Parry. Picture -- MYANMAR COUP -- Myanmar-politics-military,SCENE YANGON Clanging cymbals and banging pots, Yangon residents unhappy with a putsch that ousted Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun kicking up a nightly fracas to chase out evil spirits -- in this case, the military. 450 words 0530 GMT. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-economy,FOCUS BANGKOK Foreign investors flocked to Myanmar as it began its democratic transition a decade ago, but this week's military coup is likely to accelerate a trend of Western withdrawal -- and China's expansion. 750 words 0530 GMT by Lisa Martin and Sophie Deviller Myanmar-politics-army-youth,FOCUS HONG KONG Myanmar's coup has left its younger generation bunkered down at home, obsessively tracking arrest rumours on social media and weighing whether to defy the military on the streets. 650 words moved by Sean Gleeson and Laignee Barron -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-music-politics-health-Parton,FOCUS WASHINGTON Dolly Parton may have twice turned down Donald Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom, but the ageless queen of country has multiple irons in the fire including an ad appearance during Sunday's Super Bowl. 500 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture -- SCIENCE AND HEALTH -- US-health-face-hands-transplant WASHINGTON A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world's first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announces. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC -- Health-virus-Brazil-economy-poverty,FOCUS SAO PAULO, Brazil The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has hit especially hard in Brazil's favelas, but the country's 10 biggest slums now have a plan to fight back: they are launching their own bank. 650 words moved Florence Goisnard. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Africa-vaccine-scepticism,FOCUS DAKAR Conspiracy theories, mistrust and patchy communication have contributed to a flourishing of scepticism about Covid-19 vaccines in African countries, experts say, posing potential dangers to future immunisation campaigns. 850 words moved by Emmet Livingstone with AFP Africa bureaus -- SPORT -- Oly-2022-health-virus-China,FOCUS BEIJING The countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics hits the one-year mark with preparations overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and concerns over alleged human rights abuses, including a mass incarceration in Xinjiang. 650 words 0600 GMT by Ludovic Ehret with Peter Stebbings in Shanghai. Picture. File Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-Canada-Britain-US,FOCUS HONG KONG Canada, Britain and the United States express alarm after Hong Kong forced a dual citizen to decide on one nationality, enforcing what they said was a little-used regulation for the first time in decades. 700 words moved by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor -- AMERICAS -- US-Russia-nuclear-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's administration extends the New START nuclear treaty with Russia by five years, saying it hoped to prevent an arms race despite rising tensions with Moscow including over its imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 750 words moved by Shaun Tandon US-politics-Biden-wife,FOCUS WASHINGTON The backdrop of flowers, teapot and US flag said it all: Jill Biden will be no Melania Trump as America's new first lady. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture US-IT-Amazon-Bezos-wealth,FOCUS WASHINGTON Bill Gates set out to heal the world. His Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought sports teams. Ted Turner raced yachts. And Donald Trump went into politics. Jeff Bezos, the latest corporate titan to step away from his day job, plans to build rockets and save the planet. 600 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture -- AFRICA -- CAfrica-unrest,lead BANGUI Forces loyal to the Central African Republic government have retaken a key town from rebels, the country's prime minister says, as the UN said peacekeepers would maintain a "robust" posture. 400 words moved SAfrica-animal-conservation,SCENE CAPE TOWN Sardines, sardines... and more sardines! Hundreds of baby cormorants left starving and abandoned by their parents at Cape Town's Robben Island get some tender loving care at an animal shelter. 500 words moved by Tanya Steenkamp. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Belgium-Iran-trial-attack-France ANTWERP, Belgium A Belgian court is set to return a verdict in the trial of an Iranian diplomat accused of plotting a bomb attack against opposition activists meeting in France. 450 words moved GMT by Matthieu Demeestere Russia-EU-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,FOCUS BRUSSELS EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell jets to Moscow under pressure to confront the Kremlin over the jailing of Alexei Navalny and a crackdown on protesters. 700 words moved by Max Delany and Christian Spillman. Picture Also moved: Russia-politics-protests-Navalny,WRAP Russia-politics-protests-Navalny-Poland-Walesa,INTERVIEW ICC-Uganda-warcrimes-Ongwen-LRA,WRAP THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court hands down its verdict on a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord's Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 700 words moved by Danny Kemp and Grace Matsiko -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics-security-Ibrahim,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanon's spy chief Abbas Ibrahim has emerged as a master deal-broker, from securing the return of hostages and prisoners held abroad to mediating seemingly intractable political feuds at home. 800 words moved. File picture afp
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