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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: washengdesk@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden doubles US emissions cut target at climate summit + India posts global record for daily coronavirus cases + Super League fiasco leaves 'dirty dozen' facing punishment + Russia orders end to huge military drills near Ukraine + 'Watershed' year for Hollywood diversity US-summit-climate-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden doubles US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada at a summit in making new commitments that bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change. 1,000 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Pictures. Video Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India posts a global record for daily coronavirus cases in a new wave being blamed on an emerging variant and super-spreader events, as European countries prepare to ease restrictions amid tentative hopes that the peak there may have passed. 750 words 2000 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Also moved: Health-virus-India,3rdlead Health-virus-India,Q&A Health-virus-world,FACTS Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA,WRAP PARIS Barcelona join Real Madrid in clinging desperately to the wreckage of their doomed Super League project as the breakaway tournament's 12 founders face mounting calls for reprisals. 700 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Graphic Moved: Fbl-UEFA-EUR-C1-Super-Euro-2021-2020,ADVANCER Russia-Ukraine-conflict-Crimea,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's defence minister orders an end to military drills near Ukraine involving tens of thousands of troops and dozens of warships that have exacerbated tensions with the West. 700 words 2000 GMT by Anna Smolchenko. Picture. Vide Entertainment-US-film-diversity,WRAP LOS ANGELES Female and minority actors were proportionately represented in Hollywood for the first time last year in a "watershed moment for diversity," according to a report suggesting change may have been accelerated by the pandemic. 500 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Turkey-drought-water,FOCUS KARAPINAR, Turkey Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. 750 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video Nigeria-unrest-women-aid,PROFILE MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Mariam Oyiza wants to shake things up in the mainly Muslim and conservative northeast of Nigeria. Faced with online threats and ageism, the 26-year-old runs a small but busy charity helping women and children in a region where a decade-long bloody jihadist insurgency shows no sign of ending. 700 words moved by Louise Dewast -- CORONAVIRUS -- France-health-virus-lingerie,lead PARIS Frustrated lingerie retailers in France are protesting their closure during lockdown by sending underwear to Prime Minister Jean Castex along with requests they be classed as essential businesses. 500 words moved by Adam Plowright Nepal-mountaineering-virus-Everest KATHMANDU A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Everest confirms that he has tested positive for Covid-19, in a blow to Nepal's hopes for a bumper mountaineering season on the world's highest peak. 550 words moved -- AMERICAS -- US-Turkey-diplomacy-Armenia-genocide,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's reported plan to formally recognize as genocide the World War I-era killings of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire risks plunging relations with Turkey into deep crisis. 650 words 2000 GMT by Paul Handley. File picture -- MIDEAST -- Jordan-politics-royals,WRAP AMMAN Jordan releases 16 people detained for "sedition" at the request of King Abdullah II, the state prosecutor says, weeks after an alleged plot to destabilise the country was foiled. 550 words moved Israel-Syria-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM A Syrian officer is killed and three soldiers wounded in strikes launched by Israel after a missile was fired towards a secretive nuclear site in the Jewish state, a monitor says. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee and Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Video Palestinians-vote-Hamas,INTERVIEW GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Any change to the timetable for the first Palestinian elections in 15 years would deal a heavy blow to efforts to reconcile the rival administrations in Gaza and the West Bank, a top Hamas official warns. 750 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-protest-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Alexei Navalny's private doctors urge him to "immediately" call off his hunger strike as the jailed Kremlin critic says he is full of "pride and hope" after nationwide protests. 650 words 2000 GMT by Anastasia Clark. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Indonesia-military-submarine,WRAP JAKARTA Indonesian warships lead the hunt for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard and only enough oxygen for a few days. 700 words moved by Sonny Tumbelaka. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Indonesia-military-submarine-Type209,FACTS Indonesia-military-submarine,FACTS Myanmar-politics-military-diplomacy,WRAP YANGON A weekend summit on the Myanmar coup crisis will be a test for ASEAN's credibility and unity, a senior Thai official says, amid an escalating death toll and violence across its western border. 500 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Chad-politics-Sahel-unrest,FOCUS BAMAKO The sudden death of Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno has unleashed anxious speculation about how a leadership change will affect a nation pivotal to events in the Sahel and beyond. 600 words moved by Amaury Hauchard with regional bureaus Also moved: Chad-politics-Nigeria-conflict,FOCUS Chad-politics-Deby-security,Q&A PARIS With Chad's veteran strongman leader Idriss Deby Itno killed on the battlefield, his son Mahamat faces immediate and major challenges at the head of a military junta. 650 words 1930 GMT by Dylan Gamba Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict-aid-RedCross,INTERVIEW GENEVA The Red Cross voices alarm over "horrific" accounts of sexual violence in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, amid fears that rape is being used as a weapon of war. 500 words moved by Nina Larson. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-economy-unemployment-real-estate,WRAP WASHINGTON New filings for US unemployment aid continue their decline in the surest sign yet that the world's largest economy is on the upswing from the layoffs wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. 550 words moved by Chris Stein Germany-politics-banking-fraud-Wirecard,WRAP BERLIN Germany's finance minister denies responsibility for the collapse of payments firm Wirecard in a parliamentary inquiry that will also put Chancellor Angela Merkel in the hot seat. 650 words moved by Kit Holden and Florian Cazeres. Picture -- CLIMATE -- Climate-science-forests-oceans-tipping PARIS Global warming thresholds in Earth's climate system that could see the Amazon rainforest become savannah or tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting have "grace periods", giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers say. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood Also moved: Climate-energy-flood-Europe Climate-weather-science-Europe-Arctic,Q&A -- SPACE -- US-Europe-space-health,INTERVIEW KENNEDY SPACE CENTER From muscle wastage to radiation exposure and the psychological effects of confinement, spaceflight extracts a toll on those privileged enough to experience it. 600 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-television-streaming-Netflix,FOCUS NEW YORK Netflix has a massive global subscriber base and has proven its ability to create pop culture moments -- "Tiger King" was a breakout pandemic hit -- but is this the year it becomes an Oscars powerhouse, with several films in contention? Or does that even matter? 650 words 2000 GMT by Thomas Urbain with Carole Guirado in Paris afp
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