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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Jury begins deliberations in Floyd trial + European football in crisis over Super League plan + Kremlin critic Navalny hospitalised + NASA flies mini-chopper on Mars + Exploding Swiss snowman heralds 'great summer' US-racism-trial-police-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Jurors begin mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd, a death that sparked a nationwide reckoning on racism and which prosecutors called a "shocking abuse of authority". 850 words moved by Robin Legrand with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video Also moved: US-racism-trial-police-Floyd-Minneapolis,SCENE Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1,WRAP PARIS Plans for a breakaway Super League announced by 12 powerful clubs from England, Spain and Italy plunge European football into an unprecedented crisis as UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin calls it a "spit in the face" for supporters. 900 words 0200 GMT by Andy Scott. File picture. Graphic. Video Already moved: Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1-FACTS fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1,QUOTES fbl-Eur-Super-business,ANALYSIS fbl-Eur-Super-ENG-Pr-Arsenal-Tottenham-fans,SCENE fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1-EU-politics fbl-Eur-Super-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-Liverpool-ManCity-Chelsea-Tottenham-Arsenal,FOCUS EU-Russia-Ukraine-diplomacy-politics-opposition,WRAP MOSCOW Ailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is transferred to a prison hospital, as the EU warns it will hold Moscow responsible for the state of his health. 800 words 0200 GMT by Jonathan Brown with Max Delany in Brussels. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Russia-espionage-diplomacy,FOCUS Russia-opposition-health-Navalny,FACTS Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,CHRONO US-space-Mars-Ingenuity,WRAP WASHINGTON NASA successfully flies its mini helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat a top engineer called "our Wright brothers moment." 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Graphic Also moving: US-space-Mars-Ingenuity,FACTS Switzerland-leisure ANDERMATT, Switzerland A giant snowman brandishing a pitchfork explodes in a blaze of fireworks atop a pyre on a snowy mountain pass named Devil's Bridge -- good news for Swiss folk who think it heralds a great summer. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP AMSTERDAM Europe's drug regulator is to rule on the safety on the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after fears it could be linked to extremely rare blood clots, while India says it will make its jabs available to all adults as it tries to get a grip on a terrifying wave of infections. 650 words 0330 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Qatar-sport,FOCUS DOHA Qatar has defied soaring coronavirus numbers to stage high-profile sporting events, serving as a test bed ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Cup, but also suffering high-profile setbacks. 750 words 0300 GMT by Gregory Walton. File Picture. File Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- China-automobile-technology,FOCUS SHANGHAI Thought your phone was taking over your life? Your car may be next as China leads a stampede by Big Tech companies into auto manufacturing in their perennial contest to keep consumers within their competing digital ecosystems. 600 words 0400 GMT by Dan Martin. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Cuba-politics-party,WRAP HAVANA Cuba marks the end of an era with the official transfer of power from the Castro clan, in charge for six decades, to the communist country's first civilian leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel. 750 words moved by Leticia Pineda. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Cuba-politics-party-Castro,PROFILE Cuba-politics-party-DiazCanel,PROFILE -- ASIA -- Pakistan-France-Khan-unrest-blasphemy,FOCUS ISLAMABAD Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had hoped a fight over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed would result in an easy win -- placating the ultra conservative quarters at home, while being hailed as a defender of Islam abroad. His bet seems to have backfired. 750 words 0330 GMT by David Stout. File Picture Samoa-politics-Fiame,PROFILE APIA Samoa opposition leader Fiame Naomi Mata'afa -- a veteran powerbroker with ties to island royalty -- has spurred a seismic political shift her Pacific nation, putting her on the verge of becoming its first female prime minister. 650 words 0400 GMT by Mata'afa Keni Lesa. Picture -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics-Laschet-CDU-CSU,WRAP BERLIN Angela Merkel's party firmly backs Armin Laschet to be the conservative bloc's chancellor candidate at Germany's upcoming elections, in a bid to draw a line under a bitter battle with challenger Markus Soeder. 500 words moved Also moved: Germany-politics-Greens,WRAP Germany-politics-Baerbock,PROFILE Germany-politics-CDU-CSU,lead Russia-espionage-diplomacy,FOCUS MOSCOW In 2018, after former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, Britain said it had identified two Russian agents seen wandering through the sleepy English town. 800 words moved by Maxime Popov. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Morocco-drugs-cannabis,FOCUS KETAMA, Morocco After decades without legal cover, farmer Mohamed Morabet looks forward to selling his hashish this summer on the open market now that Morocco plans to legalise cannabis for medical use. 650 words 0300 GMT by Ismail Bellaouali. Picture Lebanon-drugs-cannabis,FOCUS BAALBEK, Lebanon For three decades Abu Ali planted potatoes to provide for his family, but Lebanon's economic crisis has driven up production costs and forced him to swap the crop for cannabis. 750 words 0300 GMT by Tony Gamal-Gabriel. Picture. Video. Iran-music-lute-Turkey-Arab,FOCUS TEHRAN The Oriental lute is making a comeback in Iran after decades in the shadows as musicians reconnect with an instrument integral to Arab and Turkish musical tradition in a fragmented region. 650 words 0300 GMT by Karim Abou Merhi and Ahmad Parhizi. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Rwanda-France-genocide-history,WRAP KIGALI France "bears significant responsibility" for enabling the genocide in Rwanda and still refuses to acknowledge its true role in the 1994 horror, a newly released report commissioned by Kigali says. 800 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Rwanda-France-genocide-history,CHRONO Rwanda-France-genocide-history,FACTS -- ENVIRONMENT -- US-climate-diplomacy-coal,lead WASHINGTON The United States will press all nations to reduce reliance on coal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, in an implicit challenge to China as he vowed greater US leadership. 600 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture UN-climate-environment-US-coal,FOCUS WEST JEFFERSON, Alabama The exhaust-belching smokestacks of America's most greenhouse gas-emitting power plant tower over Jennifer Chesser's neighborhood, but she'd likely fight to keep them from falling silent. 750 words 0200 GMT by Joshua Melvin. Picture. Video Also moving: UN-climate-environment-US-superfund,FOCUS US-climate-environment-economy-energy-wind,FOCUS UN-climate-India,FOCUS NEW DELHI Global efforts to arrest climate change and keep Earth liveable will fail without a jumbo-sized effort from India that experts say will need political will and an ocean of outside money. 800 words 0330 GMT by Simon Sturdee. File Picture -- Please see our special climate advisory for full filing plan -- -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- US-IT-lifestyle-Facebook,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook says it is adding podcasts and "live audio rooms" in a push to get people talking and take on the fast-growing audio-based app Clubhouse. 500 words moved by Glenn Chapman -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-Denmark-Vinterberg,INTERVIEW LOS ANGELES "Another Round," a film about a pact by four world-weary Danish schoolteachers to spend every day drunk for a loosely scientific "experiment," was always going to walk a fine line between comedy and darkness. And then four days into shooting, director Thomas Vinterberg's daughter was killed in a car crash. 650 words 0200 GMT by Andrew Marszal. File Picture afp
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