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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Global concerns grow over China virus + World mourns basketball icon Kobe Bryant + Trump denies Bolton claims over Ukraine aid + Auschwitz survivors sound alarm 75 years on + Portuguese hacker claims Angola graft leaks China-health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China The rapid spread of a deadly virus in China causes growing global alarm, with Germany advising citizens to avoid the country, Mongolia closing its border and other nations racing to evacuate citizens trapped at the epicentre of the health emergency. 850 words 1500 GMT by Leo Ramirez. Picture. Graphic. Video. Also moved: China-health-virus-countries,FACTS China-health-virus-HongKong China-health-virus-tourism-economy,FOCUS Basket-NBA-Bryant-death,WRAP LOS ANGELES Basketball legend Kobe Bryant's death in a helicopter crash along with his teenage daughter sparks an outpouring of grief across the worlds of sports and entertainment. 900 words 1500 GMT by Rob Woollard. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Basket-NBA-Bryant-daughter,PROFILE Already moved: Basket-NBA-Bryant-toll,5thlead Basket-NBA-Bryant,REAX Basket-NBA-Lakers-Bryant,FACTS US-politics-impeachment,WRAP WASHINGTON White House lawyers resume their defense of President Donald Trump as pressure mounts on Republican senators to allow witnesses at his historic Senate impeachment trial. 650 words 1630 GMT by Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video History-Holocaust-Nazi-Jews-Poland-Germany-Auschwitz,WRAP OSWIECIM, Poland Seventy-five years after Auschwitz, a dwindling number of ageing Holocaust survivors gather at the former German Nazi death camp to remember its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to signal their alarm over rising anti-semitism. 700 words 1700 GMT by Mary Sibierski. Pictures by Janek Skarzynski and Wojtek Radwanski. Video by Damien Simonart. Live Video Also moved: History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-Poland-Germany-Auschwitz-Survivor,SCENE History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-media,FACTS Angola-corruption-Portugal-crime,WRAP LISBON Lawyers for a Portuguese computer hacker say he was responsible for revealing the dealings of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, in a corruption scandal with fallout across Europe and Africa. 600 words moved by Thomas Cabral. File picture -- BREXIT -- Ireland-Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,lead DUBLIN Britain has to "rebuild everything" in its relationship with the European Union once it leaves the bloc later this week, the Brussels' chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says. 430 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-fishing NORTH SHIELDS, Britain Just before dawn, the Good Fellowship trawler casts its nets deep into the North Sea's cold swirling waters, fishing for prawns off England's northeast coast. 700 words moved by Roland Jackson. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-change,FACTS BRUSSELS At midnight on Friday -- 1,317 days after British voters decided to leave the European Union -- Brexit will finally come about. What will change on February 1? 650 words moved by Dave Clark. Graphic Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-parliament,FOCUS BRUSSELS Some will walk away with bitter regret. Others will march off with their flag held high. But British MEPs of every stripe face an emotional final week in Brussels. 800 words moved by Anne-Laure Mondesert. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Italy-politics ROME The far-right's defeat in a key regional election in Italy staves off a political crisis for the government, but risks remain with a weakening Five Star party, analysts say. 450 words. Moved by Alexandria Sage. Picture. Video Slovenia-politics,WRAP LJUBLJANA Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Sarec has announced he will step down and call for fresh elections, following weeks of rising tensions within his minority five-party coalition government. 550 words moved by Bojan Kavcic. File picture. File video Britain-EU-Brexit-parliament,FACTS BRUSSELS This Friday's Brexit and the departure of Britain's MEPs will shake up the balance of power in the European Parliament and could boost the influence of the Greens. 500 words 1500 GMT by Christian Spillmann. Graphic -- AFRICA -- Madagascar-flood,SCENE Muddy currents have submerged parts of the town of Marovoay in northwestern Madagascar, flooding homes, swirling rubbish around tree tops and killing dozens. 500 words 1530 GMT by Gaelle Borgia. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-IS-attacks-Syria-Iraq,WRAP BEIRUT The Islamic State group vows to shift its focus from the remnants of its "caliphate" towards Israel, in its first audio statement since confirming the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. 500 words moved US-Israel-Palestinians-conflict-diplomacy,Lead RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh urges international powers to boycott US President Donald Trump's "peace plan" which they see as biased towards Israel. 550 words 1500 GMT by Joe Dyke. Video Syria-conflict,WRAP MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria Syrian regime forces are poised to soon enter Maaret al-Numan, a town of symbolic and strategic importance that is deserted after months of bombardment, in the country's last major opposition bastion. 750 words 1600 GMT by Omar Haj Kadour and Aaref Watad. Picture. Video Iraq-politics-protest-US,WRAP BAGHDAD Anti-government demonstrators rebuild their torched protest camps across Iraq, seeking to keep national attention on their movement after rockets fired at the US embassy in Baghdad threatened a dramatic geopolitical escalation. 650 words moved. Picture Saudi-Qatar-politics-sport,FOCUS RIYADH Diehard Barcelona fan Abdulrahman had to find a creative way to keep watching matches -- paying his subscription via Kuwait to dodge a diplomatic rift between Riyadh and Doha that separates Saudis from their favourite sports. 700 words moved by Haitham El-Tabei. Picture Syria-conflict-Belgium-book,FOCUS BRUSSELS Bloodlines bind them to people on opposite sides of a violent divide: one is the mother of a jailed jihadist, the other the mother of a victim wounded in a bloody 2016 jihadist attack in Brussels. But these two Belgian women shared tears and finally the idea to write a book together. 550 words 1600 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Israel-politics-US-diplomacy-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump dives into Israel's tense election by hosting both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz ahead of unveiling a "peace plan" already rejected by the Palestinians. 650 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture -- ASIA -- China-health-virus-hospital,SCENE WUHAN, China Hundreds of workers toil around the clock at the site of a field hospital that China is racing to build within days to treat a rapidly growing number of patients stricken by a deadly virus. 600 words moved by Sebastien Ricci. Picture. Video China-health-virus-politics BEIJING Chinese officials at the epicentre of a health crisis are coming under fire for incompetence and being ridiculed for not properly wearing protective masks as anger mounts over the handling of a deadly virus. 400 words moved by Eva Xiao. Picture -- SPORTS -- Tennis-AUS-Open,WRAP MELBOURNE Rafael Nadal wins a grudge match with Nick Kyrgios to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals and keep the heat on Roger Federer's record for Grand Slam titles. 650 words moved by Talek Harris. Picture Tennis-AUS-Open-Court, 2NDLEAD MELBOURNE Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe line up to criticise Margaret Court's "homophobic" views as the Australian Open prepares to mark 50 years since the controversial tennis great's calendar-year Grand Slam. 550 words moved by Talek Harris. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-Grammy,WRAP LOS ANGELES Pop iconoclast Billie Eilish cleans up at the Grammys, winning five awards, as the music world mourns the loss of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant with a series of emotional tributes. 800 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-performances,POINTS Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-rap-Hussle Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-winners,FACTS Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-Eilish LOS ANGELES The embodiment of cool with haunting, gravelly vocals and original punk-rock style, Billie Eilish's rapid ascent to celebrity has seen her redefine the contemporary pop star. 800 words 1700 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. Picture afp
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