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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + World braces for drawn-out virus battle + N.Korea tests 'super-large' rocket launchers + Twitter removes Bolsonaro virus tweets + Trump says won't pay for Harry and Meghan's security + Virtual sports events see virus as a game-changer Health-virus,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's capital becomes the latest world city to impose a coronavirus lockdown as declared cases globally top 700,000 and the planet braces for a drawn-out battle against the disease. 850 words 1000 GMT by Anna Smolchenko with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video NKorea-diplomacy-defence-virus SEOUL Nuclear-armed North Korea successfully tests "super-large multiple rocket launchers", state media says, but leader Kim Jong Un is not described as commanding the drill as analysts say Pyongyang seeks to normalise its launches. 550 words moved Health-virus-Brazil-Bolsonaro-economy,lead SAO PAULO Two tweets by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in which he questions quarantine measures aimed at containing the novel coronavirus are removed, on the grounds that they violate the social network's rules. 400 words moved. Video Britain-royals-US-Canada-health-virus WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says the United States will not pay security costs for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, appearing to confirm that the royal couple have moved to live in California. 300 words moved Health-virus-Esports PARIS With an unprecedented captive audience of three billion people in coronavirus lockdown, virtual sports are wooing fans. 550 words moved. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Russia,lead MOSCOW Moscow imposes a lockdown and several regions introduce a quarantine after Russian authorities order tough new measures in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. 500 words 1000 GMT by Anna Smolchenko. Picture. Live video Health-virus-Hungary-politics BUDAPEST Hungary's parliament is expected to endorse a bill giving nationalist premier Viktor Orban sweeping new powers he says he needs to fight the new coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved Health-virus-Germany-hospitals,FOCUS BERLIN In the race against the coronavirus, Germany is betting on widespread testing and quarantining to break the infection chain, a strategy borrowed from South Korea whose success in slowing the outbreak has become the envy of the world. 700 words moved by Mathieu Foulkes. File picture. File video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa LAGOS Nigerians scramble to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb rising coronavirus infections. 500 words 1230 GMT by Celia Lebur. Picture. Video Health-virus-Zimbabwe,LEAD HARARE Zimbabwean authorities begin enforcing a three-week lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus which has killed one person so far and infected six others, but for many the restrictions mean tough times ahead. 550 words 1300 GMT by Fanuel Jongwe. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Gulf-labour-rights,FOCUS DOHA Millions of migrant workers across the Gulf face uncertainty as host countries lock down, employers withhold wages or mull redundancies, and strict coronavirus containment measures lead to deportations and confinement. 850 words moved by Gregory Walton with Ashok Dahal in Kathmandu and Gulf bureaux Health-virus-Iraq,FOCUS BAGHDAD For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare. For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused to allow the elderly man's burial. 800 words moved by Ammar Karim. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Panama-ship,WRAP PANAMA CITY A virus-stricken cruise liner is expected to begin moving through the Panama canal en route to the United States with the bodies of four people who died of COVID-19 as well as more than 100 suspected cases on board. 700 words moved by Juan-Jose Rodriguez. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-Trump WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to hit in two weeks and extends "social distancing" guidelines until April 30. 500 words moved Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment,FOCUS NEW YORK New York food banks have become inundated with newcomers deprived of income since the near-total halt of business in the United States' economic capital. 600 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India,lead NEW DELHI India struggles to help millions left jobless by a crippling coronavirus lockdown, with New Delhi alone feeding 400,000 people and a riot erupting in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state. 600 words 1200 GMT. Picture. Video Virus-health-Japan-work,FOCUS TOKYO Japanese companies and workers are notoriously hesitant about working from home, despite government encouragement, but the coronavirus means many are trying it out, and finding they like it. 700 words 1000GMT. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON World stock markets mostly tumble and oil prices plunge despite fresh stimulus efforts, this time from China, to shore up an economy shattered by the coronavirus fallout. 700 words 1130 GMT -- OLYMPICS -- Oly-2020-health-virus TOKYO New dates for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will likely be revealed this week, organisers say, after the coronavirus forced the historic decision to postpone the Games until next year. 550 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video. Live video afp
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