Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Spain eases lockdown, hopes for pandemic peak rise + Top oil producers agree cuts, prices bounce + Virus-stricken sailor from US aircraft carrier dies + Robot rounds: Malaysia trials 'medibot' for virus sick Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Spain reopens parts of its coronavirus-stricken economy as slowing death tolls in some countries boosted hopes the curve may be starting to flatten and lockdown restrictions could soon be eased. 900 words 1500 GMT by Hazel Ward and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-OPEC-oil,WRAP VIENNA Top oil-producing countries agree on historic output cuts to shore up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war. 650 words moved by Julia Zappei. File picture Health-virus-US-defense-Navy,2ndlead WASHINGTON A sailor who was aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier dies of COVID-19, the first fatality from more than 500 confirmed cases among its crew. 450 words 1500 GMT by Sylvie Lanteaume. File picture Health-virus-Malaysia-technology KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian scientists create a barrel-shaped robot on wheels they hope will make the rounds on hospital wards to check on coronavirus patients, reducing health workers' risk of infection. 200 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Spain,2ndlead MADRID Workers in Spain's construction and manufacturing sectors cautiously return to work as the daily death toll resumes its downward trend and new infections fall to the lowest level in three weeks. 550 words 1430 GMT by Alvaro Villalobos and Hazel Ward. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Johnson,2ndlead LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recuperates at his countryside retreat and remains off work after saying his battle with coronavirus "could have gone either way". 600 words 1730 GMT by Alice Ritchie. File picture. File video Health-virus-confinement,POINTS PARIS With signs in some countries that the coronavirus pandemic may have reached a plateau, governments are looking at how to safely lift lockdown restrictions on their crippled businesses and restless populations. But what needs to happen first? 750 words 1500 GMT by Olivier Thibault Health-virus-France-Macron PARIS President Emmanuel Macron is expected to warn France the lockdown to combat the coronavirus must go on for several more weeks at least, while also outlining how the country will recover from the crisis. 400 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-secondwave,FOCUS WASHINGTON The first wave of the US coronavirus outbreak has yet to peak, but scientists are already warning of a second if President Donald Trump and others move too fast to ease the nationwide lockdown. 700 words 1800 GMT by Ivan Couronne. Picture. Video Health-virus-Ecuador-bodies,ANALYSIS GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador With hundreds of corpses left decaying in homes due to lack of space in overwhelmed morgues and hospitals, the coronavirus has struck a withering blow to Ecuador's economic capital Quayaquil, symbolizing the chaos the pandemic can unleash in a poor country. 700 words 1530 GMT by Paola Lopez. Picture Health-virus-US-Florida-Italy-Moldova,FOCUS MIAMI They have been traveling the world for four years on an ambitious trek that has taken them to 50 countries on five continents. But the coronavirus pandemic has stopped the couple in their tracks. 650 words moved by Leila Macor. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Libya-conflict,WRAP TRIPOLI Libya's UN-recognised unity government says its forces have seized two western coastal cities from troops backing military commander Khalifa Haftar. 400 words 1600 GMT Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iran vows to protect its people from the economic impact of the novel coronavirus as the official death toll in the Middle East's worst-hit country passes 4,500. 440 words moved. Picture. Video Entertainment-television-Israel-Palestinians-conflict,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM The hit TV show "Fauda" about an undercover Israeli unit fighting Arab militants focuses on the punishing toll paid by "innocents" as it returns for a third season, says its co-creator Avi Issacharoff. 580 words moved. File picture Health-virus-Saudi-economy-tourism,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia has quarantined thousands in hotels, some in luxury suites, to combat COVID-19, throwing a temporary lifeline to a sector struggling just months after tourist visas were launched. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- SKorea-NKorea-politics-vote-rights,INTERVIEW SEOUL The crutch-wielding North Korean lauded by Donald Trump in a State of the Union address is seeking a seat of his own in the South's parliament to defend other defectors who have fled their reclusive homeland but often find themselves marginalised. 750 words moved by Sunghee Hwang. Video. Picture -- SPORT -- Health-virus-Fbl-Eur-pandemic,FOCUS PARIS A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic means that nobody can say with any certainty when the sport might return. 650 words moved by Andy Scott. File picture Health-virus-cycling-Tour-FRA-2020,FOCUS PARIS The Tour de France not only plays a central life in French life, it is the economic heartbeat of professional cycling and analysts fear heavy consequences if the coronavirus crisis forces its cancellation. 600 words moved by Andrea Bambino. File picture Health-virus-Oly-fbl-tennis-cricket-auto-prix,FOCUS PARIS Sport has not been immune from the coronavirus pandemic that has put much of the globe in lockdown -- and the deadly fallout from a Champions League game in Milan and the speed with which infection spread through elite cyclists in a race in the UAE raise worrying issues for the future. 850 words moved. File picture afp