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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Key Aung San Suu Kyi aide arrested + Biden ends US military support for Yemen war + QAnon congresswoman stripped of posts + Vale to pay $7bn over Brazil dam collapse + Japan Olympic chief in hot water over sexism Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON A key aide of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested days after a coup that has sparked outrage and calls by US President Joe Biden for the generals to relinquish power. 650 words 0330 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden ends US support for Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen and dramatically increases the welcome to refugees, ushering in a major reset in American foreign policy. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith and Shaun Tandon. Pictures. Video US-politics-Congress-Republicans,WRAP WASHINGTON The Democratic-led US House votes to discipline a congresswoman who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and endorsed violence, capping weeks of mounting turmoil over holding to account a lawmaker whose extremist rhetoric caused a rupture in Republican ranks. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture Brazil-economy-mining-environment,WRAP BRASILIA Brazilian mining giant Vale announces an agreement to pay more than $7 billion in damages over the 2019 collapse of a mining waste dam that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge and killed 270 people. 500 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture Oly-2020-2021-Japan-sexism-Mori,REAX TOKYO Criticism mounts over sexist remarks made by Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori, who has refused to step down and justified his comments by explaining he doesn't 'speak to women much.' 550 words 0600 GMT. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Afghanistan-conflict-killings,FOCUS KABUL Days before he was gunned down on a Kabul street, democracy activist Mohammad Yousuf Rasheed had made up his mind to move his family to Turkey, joining scores of other high-profile Afghans fleeing the country. 800 words moved by Jay Deshmukh and Usman Sharifi. Video. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP COPENHAGEN A World Health Organization chief appeals for European nations and big pharma to unite in the battle to speed up vaccinations, as Johnson & Johnson applies for emergency authorization of its single-shot Covid vaccine in the United States. 700 words 0700 GMT by Camille Bas-Wohlert and AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-schools,FOCUS LOS ANGELES From lawsuits in San Francisco to threats of a remote learning "lockout" in Chicago, US officials are ramping up the pressure on teachers and their unions to reopen schools that have been closed for almost a year due to Covid. 700 words 0600 GMT by Laurent Banguet Health-virus-India,Q&A NEW DELHI With its 1.3 billion population, India has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections but new cases and deaths have fallen sharply in recent weeks, even as mass gatherings have occurred and normal life has returned. AFP looks at some possible reasons for the drop. 750 words 0730 GMT. Health-virus-Britain-theft-dogs,FOCUS LONDON When six of Sarah's dogs were stolen in late December, she was left reeling. But she was not alone, as increasing numbers of pet owners have experienced similar across Britain during the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by Pauline Froissart. File picture Health-virus-Serbia-China-EU-vaccines,FOCUS BELGRADE Inside the dome of Belgrade's concrete fair hall, dozens of nurses in hazmat suits inject Covid-19 shots into young and old alike, working with an efficiency that has turned Serbia into continental Europe's fastest vaccinator. 800 words moved by Miodrag Sovilg. Picture. Video Health-virus-Saudi-India,FOCUS RIYADH India's decision to export millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to Saudi Arabia has rankled its vast expat community, locked out by the kingdom's months-long flight ban that sparked tense diplomatic wrangling. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra. File picture -- ASIA-PACIFIC -- Britain-China-espionage-diplomacy-politics,lead LONDON Britain has expelled three Chinese spies posing as journalists over the past year, a report says, the same day UK regulators revoked the licence of a Chinese news network over its ties to the Communist Party. 400 words 0830 GMT Pacific-Palau-diplomacy KOROR Palau announces it's quitting the Pacific Islands Forum over a leadership row, threatening the future of a key grouping in a region where China and the United States are vying for influence. 500 words by 0530 GMT by Bernadette Carreon -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment-Trump-testify,WRAP WASHINGTON Former president Donald Trump refuses to testify in his looming impeachment trial after being called by House prosecutors to give evidence, branding the process "unconstitutional." 600 words moved by Paul Handley. File picture. US-economy-unemployment WASHINGTON A nationwide drop in Covid-19 cases and improvements in economic indicators have raised hopes the US labor market is on the upswing, and government data due out Friday could show how strong that recovery is. 550 words moved. File picture Ecuador-politics-vote,ADVANCER QUITO Ecuadorans go to the polls Sunday to choose between a socialist economist and a fiscally conservative ex-banker to lead a country besieged by deep economic problems aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved by Santiago Piedra Silva with Florence Panoussian. Picture. -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Sudan-Darfur-unrest,FOCUS Al-Twail Saadoun, SUDAN A pall of gloom hangs over the house of Adam Omar in a remote village in Sudan's South Darfur; he has lost seven family members including two sons in recent tribal clashes. 750 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-EU-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW An outcry in Russia grows over a crackdown on protesters, as the US says it will take action against Moscow for interfering with US elections, poisoning opposition figure Alexei Navalny and for other "malign" behaviour. 750 words moved by Anna Smolchenko with Max Delany in Brussels. Picture. Video Also moved: Russia-politics-EU-diplomacy-Navalny France-Germany-mining-waste-environment WITTELSHEIM, France Jean-Pierre Hecht, a miner in eastern France, remembers how attractive the idea sounded when he first heard about it: a dying pit could be turned into something useful and environmentally friendly 950 words 0630 GMT by Adam Plowright. File Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health virus SAfrica vaccines JOHANNESBURG At the very mention of the word "vaccine", 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shakes her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazes at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. 900 words 0600 GMT by Sofia Christensen. Video and File Picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open-WTA-ATP-health-virus,2ndlead MELBOURNE, Australia An Australian Open testing blitz has revealed no new coronavirus cases, organisers say, putting preparations for the Grand Slam tournament back on track after a Covid scare. 500 words 0600 GMT. Picture Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The greatest quarterback in NFL history faces off with the pretender to his throne on Sunday when Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head-to-head in a Super Bowl clash of generations. 800 words moved by Rob Woollard Also moved: Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Goodell-health-virus Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Goodell-racism-coaches Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Chiefs-US-racism-minorities,FOCUS afp
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