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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Six Trump rally staffers test COVID-postive + Top US prosecutor resists attempted ouster + DR Congo court jails top aide in graft case + Court allows release of damning Trump book + Lenin statue unveiled in western Germany Health-virus,WRAP TULSA Six Trump staffers test positive for the coronavirus as crowds gather to hear the US president speak, ignoring the risk of infection, while cases and deaths rise in several Latin American countries. 800 words 2030 GMT by AFP bureaux. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-investigation-Trump,WRAP NEW YORK A US prosecutor who investigated allies of President Donald Trump fights for his job after refusing to quit despite the attorney general issuing a press release announcing his resignation. 500 words 1930 GMT by Laura Bonilla. File picture DRCongo-politics-corruption-Kamerhe,WRAP KINSHASA A top DR Congo court sentences Vital Kamerhe, chief of staff to President Felix Tshisekedi and a key powerbroker, to 20 years hard labour for corruption in a test of the government's anti-graft campaign. 600 words 2000 GMT by Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya and Samir Tounsi. File picture US-politics-Trump-book-court,WRAP WASHINGTON A US court refuses to block the release of a tell-all book in which President Donald Trump's former national security advisor describes him as corrupt and incompetent. 600 words 2000 GMT by Daniel Woolls Germany-history-social-politics,WRAP FRANKFURT A divisive new monument to Soviet leader Lenin is unveiled in Germany as a global row rages over the controversial background of historical figures immortalised as statues. 600 words moved by Tom Barfield. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-rally-Trump,WRAP TULSA, Oklahoma A defiant Donald Trump prepares for his first rally in months as supporters swat away coronavirus concerns to hear the US president's campaign message, even as some on his advance team test positive. 750 words 2000 GMT by Laurent Banguet. Picture US-politics-racism-history-Tulsa,FOCUS TULSA, Oklahoma A century after Tulsa, Oklahoma saw one of the worst racial massacres in US history, many here feel President Donald Trump is reawakening old wounds by choosing the city for his first re-election rally since the coronavirus pandemic started. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-racism-history-Tulsa,FACTS US-racism-Confederacy-statues-protest,SCENE US-politics-vote-rally-Trump,WRAP US-Russia-China-nuclear-diplomacy-disarmament,ADVANCER WASHINGTON The United States and Russia on Monday open talks on their last major nuclear agreement but to some observers, it may simply be the beginning of the end. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Maria Panina in Moscow and Ludovic Ehret in Beijing -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-election-opposition,WRAP MINSK Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko says the country's sovereignty is under threat as police detain around 140 people during protests against his rule ahead of August 9 elections. 650 words moved by Tatyana Kalinovskaya. Picture Belgium-racism-politics-history,INTERVIEW BRUSSELS Belgium is due a reckoning with its colonial past, and things left unsaid must now be discussed, argues the Congolese-born 72-year-old who became the country's first black mayor. 550 words moved by Matthieu Demeestere. Picture. Video Health-virus-France-music-film PARIS France will begin to shake off its coronavirus blues on Sunday with cinemas opening on the stroke of midnight and thousands of people taking to the streets for its midsummer music festival. 600 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. Video Health-virus-Greece-refugees ATHENS Greece announces another extension of the coronavirus lockdown on its teeming migrant camps, hours after some 2,000 people protested in central Athens to mark World Refugee Day and denounce the government's treatment of migrants. 500 words moved by Katerina Nikolopoulou. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- Libya-conflict-Egypt,WRAP CAIRO Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warns that advances by Turkey-backed forces in Libya could prompt an Egyptian military intervention in the neighbouring country. 600 words 1930 GMT by Menna Zaki -- ASIA -- China-HongKong-politics-law-security,WRAP BEIJING China will set up a "national security agency" in Hong Kong to oversee a forthcoming new law aimed at cracking down on dissent in the city, state media say. 550 words moved India-China-combat-border,FOCUS NEW DELHI Dozens of hardy mountain soldiers die every year in India's high north, but the dangers -- until the June 15 deadly clash with China -- have been the treacherous terrain, avalanches, bitter cold and the occasional bear. 650 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar -- SPORTS -- Fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Arsenal's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League suffer a fatal blow as Neal Maupay fires Brighton to a last-gasp 2-1 win after Gunners keeper Bernd Leno is stretchered off. 650 words by Steve Griffiths Picture 2100 GMT Auto-Prix-ITA-Zanardi-Paralympics-accident MILAN Alex Zanardi, a former Formula One driver who became an inspirational Paralympic champion after having both his legs amputated in a motor racing accident two decades ago, is fighting for his life after a bike crash with doctors telling reporters: "The neurological damage is serious". 650 words by Emmeline Moore File Picture 2030GMT afp
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