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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Belarus says acted 'lawfully' in plane diversion + New deadly cyclone batters India + Blinken heads to Egypt to shore up Gaza truce + Grand jury to decide on Trump indictment + Chimps learn 'handshakes' according to social group Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP MINSK A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko defends Belarus's diversion of a European flight and arrest of a dissident on board, lashing out at his critics at home and abroad. 700 words 1000 GMT Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Belarus-politics-arrest-Poland-dissident,INTERVIEW Belarus-politics-Lukashenko,PROFILE Belarus-politics-arrest-Poland-parents,INTERVIEW India-weather-cyclone,WRAP DIGHA, India At least two people die as howling winds and huge waves slam eastern India in the Covid-stricken country's second cyclone in as many weeks. 600 words 1100 GMT by Dibyangshu Sarkar. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US,WRAP CAIRO US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Cairo on a Mideast tour aimed at shoring up an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. 750 words 1100 GMT by Emmanuel Parisse. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lebanon-Syria,FOCUS US-politics-justice-Trump,lead WASHINGTON New York prosecutors have convened a grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, suggesting they may have found evidence of a crime, US media report. 600 words moved by Peter Hutchison Science-chimps-society-handshakes PARIS Chimpanzees develop specific handshake-like gestures depending on their social group, according to the results of a 12-year observational study that sheds light on the animals' complex social structures. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey -- SPOTLIGHT -- HongKong-China-lifestyle-food-gender,FOCUS HONG KONG Despite the institutional status bestowed by her double Michelin star, Vicky Lau says the battle to improve gender parity in the male-dominated world of professional kitchens is a long way from won -- but small victories bring her hope. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video IT-security-France-ransomware-crime-health,FOCUS DAX, France At 2:00 a.m. on a day in early February, the deputy director of the main hospital in the southwestern French town of Dax took an urgent call from a normally unflappable colleague in the IT department. 750 words moved by Adam Plowright. File Picture ** Please see AFP's special advisory on cybersecurity ** Entertainment-Morocco-film-equestrian,FOCUS MARRAKESH Horse master Joel Proust hopes his stallions will soon return to the Morocco movie sets that made his name, from Hollywood epics to "Game of Thrones", after Covid restrictions hit the industry hard. 700 words moved by Kaouthar Oudrhiri. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-origin,FOCUS WASHINGTON Long dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory espoused by the US far right, the idea that Covid-19 emerged from a lab leak in the Chinese city of Wuhan is gaining traction across America. 650 words moved by Lucie Aubourg -- EUROPE -- Italy-accident-cablecar-Israel,WRAP VERBANIA, Italy Italian police arrest three people involved in the management of a mountain cable car that crashed at the weekend, leaving 14 people dead and a little boy in hospital. 500 words 1030 GMT by Giovanni Grezzi. Pictures. Video. Britain-politics-health-virus,WRAP LONDON The British government failed the public by not having adequate planning in place for the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former top adviser and Brexit architect Dominic Cummings tells lawmakers. 650 words 1100 GMT by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-politics-Cummings,PROFILE Moldova-emigration-children,FOCUS CHISINAU Though Aura Mutruc was promised toys that other children in her village in Moldova could not have, what she longed for the most was her mother. 750 words moved by Mihaela Rodina. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict-vote,WRAP DAMASCUS Syrians vote in a presidential election where few doubt Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power over the war-battered country mired in economic crisis. 600 words 1100 GMT by Maher Al-Mounes and Rouba El-Husseini in Beirut. Picture. Video Iran-politics,WRAP TEHRAN Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urges greater competition in next month's election for his successor after several prominent hopefuls were barred from running. 600 words 1200 GMT Health-virus-Tunisia-Russia-tourism,FOCUS TUNIS Tunisia, its economy hit hard by the pandemic, is counting on Russians and eastern Europeans to salvage its tourism sector, whose employees fear hunger more than Covid-19. 600 words moved by Zeineb Boughzou. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest-religion,FOCUS PEMBA, Mozambique At his small neighbourhood mosque adjacent to a beach in Pemba, northern Mozambique where fishing boats arrive packed with people fleeing jihadist violence, Imam Sufo Mussa is on the front lines. 650 words by 1100 GMT Susan Njanji. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-politics-race-Floyd,WRAP WASHINGTON The family of George Floyd appeals for sweeping police reform on the anniversary of the African American man's murder by a white officer, as they meet President Joe Biden at the White House. 800 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video US-Russia-politics-diplomacy-summit,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit next month in Geneva, though no breakthrough is expected in the fraught relationship. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Brazil-vote-Lula,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who started out a shoeshine boy and became the most popular president in Brazilian history, has racked up a lifetime of improbable victories. 750 words moved by Joshua Howat Berger. File picture -- ASIA -- Samoa-politics-vote-Malielegaoi,PROFILE APIA Defying election results and court rulings, Samoa's veteran leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is determined to cling to power, convinced only divine intervention can end his 22-year rule of the Pacific island nation. 650 words moved Macau-China-HongKong-politics HONG KONG Macau has banned a vigil marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown for the second year in a row, with authorities this time saying the event would "incite subversion", in the latest sign of withering political freedoms there. 450 words moved -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health,3rdlead TOKYO Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, calls for the Games to be cancelled, in the latest sign of opposition less than two months before the opening ceremony. 650 words 1100 GMT by Andrew McKirdy. Picture. Video. Live video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-Ireland-G7-economy-taxation,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden's push to get major economies to agree on a 15 percent minimum tax rate for multinational corporations has hit turbulence after Ireland's finance minister expressed "significant reservations" about the plan. 550 words moved by Chris Stein and Charlotte Durand US-IT-retail-antitrust-Amazon,WRAP WASHINGTON Amazon is hit with an antitrust suit from the US capital city Washington, claiming the tech giant abuses its dominant position in online retail sales, harming consumers. 500 words moved by Rob Lever -- ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE -- Entertainment-US-television-Friends,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The stars of "Friends" never really left us -- they were simply on a break. The cast of the beloved 1990s sitcom about six attractive, straight, white New Yorkers with ludicrously giant Manhattan apartments are set to finally reunite for a much-hyped and long-delayed special. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal and Thomas Urbain Health-virus-Austria-music,FOCUS VIENNA Classical musicians in Vienna are returning to live performances after long months without audiences which have severely tested their motivation and, for some, even thrown their careers into question. 700 words moved by Anne Beade. Picture. Video afp
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