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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Suez Canal opens as megaship refloated + Harrowing video opens Floyd murder trial + China overhauls Hong Kong's parliament + Myanmar crackdown death toll passes 500 + Could mid-size black hole be missing link? Egypt-shipping-Suez,WRAP ISMAILIA, Egypt Vessels anchored for nearly a week begin moving through the Suez Canal after a grounded mega-ship was unwedged, sparking relief in a country that depends heavily on the global trade artery. 650 words moved by Hager Harabech with Mona Salem in Cairo. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Also moved: Egypt-shipping-Suez,Q&A US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,WRAP WASHINGTON The stomach-churning video of George Floyd's death under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman takes center stage as arguments in the politically charged murder trial open. 750 words moved by Agnes Bun and Joy Powell. Picture. Video. Graphic. Also moved: US-racism-police-trial,SCENE China-HongKong-politics,WRAP Beijing Chinese leaders endorse a sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system, slashing its number of directly elected seats and ensuring a majority of the city's lawmakers will be selected by a reliably pro-Beijing committee. 600 words by Beiyi Sow and Xinqi Su Also moving: HongKong-China-politics,FACTS Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown on protesters passes 500, as armed rebel groups threaten the junta with retaliation if the bloodshed does not stop. 700 words 0800 GMT. Graphic. Picture. Video Science-astronomy-blackhole PARIS Scientists have reported the discovery of a rare, medium-sized black hole that may help answer one of the more tantalising questions in astronomy: how do their supermassive counterparts come into being? 600 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- China-gender-social-LGBTQ-culture,FOCUS BEIJING Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut -- voguing, the underground dance phenomenon, has seized Beijing and given China's LGBT community a "playground" to celebrate their identities. 650 words moved by Laurie Chen. Video. Picture SKorea-aerospace-drone-technology,FOCUS HWASEONG, South Korea In a South Korean rice field, the teenage world champion of drone-racing is preparing to defend his title in one of the planet's fastest and highest-tech sports. 700 words moved by Kang Jin-kyu. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA Covid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert mission to China conclude, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak. 800 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-Germany-politics,lead Health-virus-Argentina-viniculture,FOCUS MENDOZA, Argentina It's the grape harvest in Argentina and traditionally the province of Mendoza, which produces 70 percent of the country's wines, would be bustling with tourists, mostly from Brazil. 650 words moved by Maria Lorente. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-art,INTERVIEW HONG KONG When dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei secretly snapped a picture of himself showing a middle finger in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, he knew it was provocative. But he never thought that picture would be at the heart of rising censorship fears in Hong Kong 26 years later. 700 words 0630 GMT by Jerome Taylor. File picture Myanmar-politics-military-rebels,Q&A YANGON Unrest in coup-hit Myanmar has thrown the spotlight on some of the country's ethnic armed groups as some analysts predict the crisis could slide into conflict. 600 words 0830 GMT -- AMERICAS -- US-Mexico-immigration-border,FOCUS ROMA-LOS SAENZ, Texas The sun has barely set when Mexican traffickers inflate their boat, load 15 migrants on board, yelling at the kids to stop crying, and then row in a frenzy across the Rio Grande, landing on US soil in just a few minutes. 800 words moved by Laura Bonilla. Picture. Video Brazil-politics-diplomacy-health-virus,WRAP BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauls his government, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defense and justice ministers, as the far-right leader faced mounting pressure over a deadly surge of Covid-19. 650 words moved by Jordi Miro. Picture US-labor-Amazon-unions,WRAP BESSEMER, Alabama Voting concludes on whether to create the first Amazon labor union in the United States, at a warehouse in Alabama, after a historic, five-month David versus Goliath campaign. 750 words moved by Julie Jammot. Picture -- EUROPE -- France-pharmaceutical-health-trial,WRAP PARIS A French court finds pharma giant Servier guilty of aggravated deceit and involuntary manslaughter over hundreds of deaths caused by its diabetes and weight loss pill, in one of France's biggest health scandals. 550 words moved by Caroline Taix and Anne-Sophie Lasserre. Picture. Video. Graphic Greece-EU-migration-Turkey,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND, Greece The European Union says Turkey must "urgently" resume accepting migrants from Greece, where thousands are being held in camps, days before EU chiefs are to visit Ankara. 650 words moved by Chantal Valery with John Hadoulis in Athens. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-conflict-UN-US-Russia-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON Saying the world should be ashamed over Syria's suffering, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the reopening of aid crossings blocked by Russia as the United Nations pleads for billions in fresh donations. 650 words moved by Philippe Rater with Shaun Tandon in Washington Environment-Tunisia-pollution,FOCUS SIJOUMI, Tunis Hundreds of flamingos wade past waste in the murky waters of the vast Sijoumi lagoon, a critical wetland in the heart of Tunisia's capital threatened by urbanisation. 700 words moved by Aymen Jamli. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest,WRAP PEMBA, Mozambique The United States vows to support Mozambique after a prolonged deadly assault on the key northern town of Palma by Islamic State-linked militants waging an escalating insurgency. 950 words moved. Video. Picture. Graphic Kenya-US-people-politics-Obama,2ndlead NAIROBI Sarah Obama, the grandmother of former US president Barack Obama, has died in Kenya at the age of 99, her family says. 500 words moved. File video ICC-trial-DRCongo-Ntaganda THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court will decide on an appeal by a Congolese warlord dubbed the "Terminator", who received the tribunal's longest-ever war crimes sentence. 550 words moved by Danny Kemp. File picture -- BUSINESS -- OPEC+-oil-market,ADVANCER LONDON The OPEC+ grouping of oil producers will hold its third ministerial summit of the year via videoconference Thursday to discuss output cuts in the face of fresh price volatility. 550 words moved by Benoit Pelegrin. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-clothing-court NEW YORK It's been quite a few days for sneakers, Satan and the artist Lil Nas X. 500 words moved afp
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