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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + AstraZeneca benefits outweigh risks: EU agency + Yangon residents flee flashpoint area + Prince Philip leaves London hospital + Israel unearths biblical scroll fragments + Spike Lee to head Cannes festival jury Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The EU's medicines regulator says it is "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's jab outweigh potential risks, insisting there was no evidence linking the vaccine to blood clots after a host of nations suspended the shot over health fears. 800 words 2030 GMT by Nina Larson, with Danny Kemp in The Hague and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-pharmaceutical-vaccines,Q&A Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Residents of a protest flashpoint district in Myanmar's biggest city flee on flatbed trucks and motorbikes as security forces defy global calls for restraint and maintain their use of lethal force against anti-coup rallies. 750 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military-soldier,FOCUS India-Myanmar-coup-demonstration-army-politics-military,SCENE Britain-royals-health-Philip,WRAP LONDON Queen Elizabeth II's 99-year-old husband Prince Philip leaves a central London hospital after four weeks of treatment that sparked fears for his health. 550 words moved by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Israel-archaeology-Bible,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel unveils fragments of a biblical scroll dating back some 2,000 years, in what experts describe as the most significant such find since the Dead Sea Scrolls. 600 words moved by Ben Simon. Picture. Video Entertainment-France-film-festival,WRAP PARIS US director Spike Lee will head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in July, organisers say, making him the first black person to take on the role. 600 words moved by Francois Becker. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Ethiopia-Eritrea-Tigray-conflict-unrest,FOCUS WUKRO, Ethiopia Kibrom Hailu wasn't too worried when his 15-year-old son stepped out to play volleyball one morning last month near their home in Wukro, in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region. Only when he heard gunfire did Kibrom realise the danger, and by then it was too late. 1,000 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-children,FOCUS WASHINGTON Drugmaker Moderna says it has started Covid-19 vaccine trials for thousands of children aged under 12 years, a first step towards a new phase of the immunization campaign experts say might be necessary to stamp out the pandemic. 700 words 1930 GMT by Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg Health-virus-China-vaccine-travel,lead BEIJING China is poised to ease border restrictions to allow some foreigners -- including from the US, India and Australia -- back in, provided they have taken a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine. 450 words moved. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-court-police-kidnap-murder,2ndlead LONDON A British police officer is remanded in custody when he appears in court charged with the kidnap and murder of a woman who vanished as she walked home in London. 450 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Yemen-conflict-migrants,WRAP DUBAI The UN calls for a probe into a fire that killed dozens of migrants at a holding facility in Yemen's capital, after Human Rights Watch says it was started by Huthi rebels. 750 words moved by Aziz El Massassi. File Picture. Video Also moved: Yemen-conflict-protest Yemen-conflict-Qaeda,FOCUS -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict-unrest-general,WRAP ADDIS ABABA A "dirty war" causing suffering for "defenceless" victims is unfolding in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, an Ethiopian general has told diplomats, according to an audio recording of his comments obtained by AFP. 650 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet Niger-unrest,WRAP NIAMEY Dozens of people are killed in Niger after gunmen attack a bus and raid villages, security sources and villagers say, in what appear to be the latest multiple attacks in the country's jihadist conflict. 400 words moved by Boureima Hama Mozambique-unrest-Britain-children,WRAP LONDON Children as young as 11 have been targeted by violence and beheaded in a jihadist insurgency in northeast Mozambique, the charity Save the Children says in a new report. 500 words moved by Callum Paton. File pictures. Graphic -- ASIA -- NKorea-US-SKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister warns the United States against "causing a stink", state media reports, as top Biden administration officials begin a visit to key allies Tokyo and Seoul. 750 words moved by Sunghee Hwang US-Japan-China-diplomacy,WRAP TOKYO The United States and Japan warn Beijing against "coercion and destabilising behaviour" after top-level diplomatic and defence talks aimed at bolstering their alliance against rising Chinese influence. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Defence-diplomacy-US-Taiwan-China-Japan SriLanka-Islam-burqa-politics,FOCUS COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government insists that preventing Muslim women from wearing a burqa or niqab is a national security move, as it faces protests over the decision. 550 words moved by Amal Jayasinghe. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- US-pharma-addiction-bankrupcy-Purdue,WRAP WASHINGTON The addiction to opioid sales that made vast sums for Purdue Pharma, now spells the end of the company, and the Sackler family has offered to pay billions to settle lawsuits over the company's role in the overdoes crisis that swept the country -- an offer states are rejecting as still too small. 550 words moved US-economy-bank-rate,WRAP WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve opens its two-day policy meeting which is expected to produce a more upbeat growth outlook, despite data showing the economy slowed in February, as $1.9 trillion in stimulus is starting to flood into the economy. 600 words moved by Heather Scott -- SPORT -- Yachting-AmCup,lead AUCKLAND Team New Zealand reach match point in the America's Cup but are denied a chance to clinch the trophy when fickle winds force the day's second race to be abandoned. 450 words moved. Picture. Video -- SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT -- Science-life-lightning PARIS Lightning strikes may have supplied primordial Earth with enough phosphorus to support the emergence of life, according to new research that offers an alternative explanation as to how living organisms were born. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey Science-space-meteorite-solar-system,FOCUS PARIS Scientists believe they have identified a meteorite formed in the first million years of our solar system, making it the oldest known meteor of volcanic origin. 550 words moved by Pierre Celerier. File picture -- ARCHITECTURE -- US-France-architecture-award-Pritzker,WRAP NEW YORK The Pritzker Prize -- architecture's most prestigious award -- is given to French duo Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton for their affordable, eco-friendly spaces that prioritize the wellbeing of the many. 650 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture afp
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