Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Pfizer reports vaccine 94% effective + Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts + Australia to require tech firms to pay for news + Armenia PM denounces 'attempted coup' + Springsteen fined for drinking tequila in park Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS Pfizer says its Covid-19 jab proves 94 percent effective, raising hopes for mass immunisation campaigns as EU leaders meet under the spectre of Europe's sluggish vaccine drive. 700 words 1100 GMT by Marc Burleigh and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Myanmar-coup-politics-military-Facebook,lead BANGKOK Facebook says it has banned all remaining accounts linked to the Myanmar military, citing the junta's use of deadly force against anti-coup demonstrators. 450 words moved Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military Australia-US-IT-politics-media,WRAP SYDNEY Facebook and Google will be forced to pay for Australian news after parliament passes legislation that is being closely watched globally for precedents in the battle between Big Tech and media companies. 650 words moved by Andrew Beatty Armenia-politics-coup,WRAP YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan denounces an attempted coup and calls on supporters to take to the streets after the military demanded his resignation over the handling of last year's war with Azerbaijan. 550 words 0930 GMT by Karen Minasyan Entertainment-US-music-court-Springsteen,WRAP NEW YORK Bruce Springsteen has been fined $540 after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a national recreation area where drinking is banned, a federal judge rules. 550 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Germany-animal-hunting-food,FOCUS ASPISHEIM, Germany With her dreadlocks and nose piercing, Shanna Reis doesn't exactly look the part of the camouflage-clad hunter tracking game in the forest. 650 words moved by Jean-Philippe Lacour. Picture. Video Philippines-internet-rights,FOCUS MANILA Philippine lawmaker Sarah Elago faces a daily barrage of Facebook posts linking her to communist rebels trying to overthrow the government. She says the claims are false, but they could get her killed anyway. 1,000 words moved by Cecil Morella and Jake Soriano. Picture. Video Mozambique-unrest-displaced,SCENE CHIURE, Mozambique After witnessing jihadist fighters take his wife, Idrisse Saha Cachimo fled his home in northern Mozambique. Six months later, he has a new house far from the conflict, but says he would do anything to return home. 600 words moved by Emidio Jozine and Alfredo Zuniga. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-EU-summit BRUSSELS EU leaders meet under pressure to speed up Europe's coronavirus vaccine rollout, and divided over border closures and what introducing vaccine certificates could mean. 700 words 1000 GMT by Marc Burleigh. Picture. Video Health-virus-infection-vaccine,FOCUS PARIS As reports this week from Scotland and Israel -- where much or most of the population have gotten Covid jabs -- confirm that vaccines largely prevent people from getting sick, another question is emerging: do they also block infection? 900 words 1030 GMT by Marlowe Hood Health-virus-Czech-children-obesity,FOCUS PRAGUE A sports teacher in Prague, Dana Gavrinevova is watching in horror as her students reduced to distance learning fall into lethargy and pile on weight in the country with the world's highest Covid infection rate. 500 words 1100 GMT by Jan Flemr Bulgaria-health-virus-vaccines-government,FOCUS SOFIA Bulgarians of all ages, some as young as 20, joined long queues at hospitals this weekend, after low uptake on the priority lists led the government to open up coronavirus vaccinations to everyone. 700 words moved by Diana Simeonova. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Germany-Russia-crime-espionage,WRAP BERLIN German prosecutors say they have filed spying charges against a German man suspected of passing on data from parliament to Russian secret services. 450 words 1000 GMT by Hui Min Neo -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Libya-conflict-politics,FOCUS TRIPOLI Libya's new interim prime minister is set to name a transitional government tasked with unifying a divided nation torn by war and leading it to elections in December. 550 words 1000 GMT by Rim Taher Iran-politics-vote,FOCUS TEHRAN Iran will vote in June for a successor to President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate-reformist government, but politics in the country is dominated by the nuclear issue and no frontrunner has emerged. 800 words moved by Ahmad Parhizi. File Picture Egypt-prisoners-politics,FOCUS CAIRO Already faced with the prospect of spending several years in overcrowded and often violent jails, Egypt's political prisoners are often charged with crimes they allegedly committed while behind bars. 650 words moved by Farid Farid. File Picture Gulf-technology-Huawei-China-security,FOCUS DUBAI Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is enjoying an extended honeymoon with oil-rich Gulf nations, despite being criticised in the United States and Europe as a potential security threat. 600 words moved by Aziz El Massassi. Picture -- AFRICA -- Zambia-debt-politics,FOCUS LUSAKA Debt-ridden Zambia and the International Monetary Fund are negotiating conditions for a possible bailout, laying the foundation for debt relief under a new framework designed to help the world's poorest nations tackle unsustainable arrears 650 words 1100 GMT by Obert Simwanza and Sofia Christensen Mozambique-politics,FOCUS MAPUTO The death of two leading opposition figures in Mozambique in as many yeas could undermine political competition which came which the southern African country had enjoyed following a decade-and-half civil war which ended in 1992. 450 words 1200 GMT by Joaquim Nhamirre -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-intelligence-CIA-espionage,WRAP WASHINGTON Veteran US diplomat William Burns, nominated to lead the CIA, pledges to keep the agency free of politics and says China will be his main focus if confirmed. 650 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture Ecuador-prison-riots,WRAP CUENCA, Ecuador The body count from simultaneous riots at four prisons in Ecuador rises as family members claim the remains of loved ones lost in hours of full-out gang warfare. 650 words moved by Rodrigo Matute. Picture. Video. Graphic Venezuela-EU-politics-diplomacy-sanctions,WRAP CARACAS Venezuela expels the European Union's ambassador in response to new sanctions, giving the Portuguese envoy 72 hours to leave the country and raising the bloc's renewed ire. 650 words moved. Picture. Video US-Mexico-drugs-Coronel,PROFILE NEW YORK Emma Coronel Aispuro's resume is dense: model, social media influencer and fashion designer, small-town beauty queen at 17, wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman a year later. 600 words moved by Laura Bonilla. File Picture -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-politics-semiconductors-automobile-Biden,WRAP NEW YORK Alarmed over a semiconductor crunch that forced US carmakers to cut production, President Joe Biden vows to bring an end to shortages of critical items. 700 words moved by John Biers -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan-relay,2ndlead TOKYO Spectators will be allowed to line the route when the Olympic flame begins its delayed relay across Japan next month, organisers say, but cheering will be strictly banned. 650 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE -- China-lifestyle-cinema-film,FOCUS SHANGHAI Audiences are cramming into Chinese cinemas to watch a sentimental comedy that has rapidly become one of the most popular films of all time in the country and marks a triumphant debut for its female director. 600 words moved by Peter Stebbings with Lan Lianchao. Picture. Video afp