Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Suez Canal opens as megaship refloated + Harrowing video opens Floyd murder trial + Covid likely jumped from animals: WHO + Jihadists claim deserted Mozambique town + Obama's Kenyan 'granny' dies aged 99 Egypt-shipping-Suez,WRAP ISMAILIA, Egypt The Ever Given is refloated and the Suez Canal reopened, sparking relief six days after the megaship got stuck during a sandstorm and blocked a major artery for global trade. 700 words 2000 GMT by Hager Harabech with Mona Salem in Cairo. Picture. Graphics. Video Also moved: Egypt-shipping-Suez,Q&A US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,WRAP WASHINGTON The harrowing video of the death of George Floyd opens the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in a case that has become a symbol of mistreatment of African Americans by police. 750 words 2100 GMT by Agnes Bun and Joy Powell. File picture. Picture. Live video. Video. Graphic. Also moved: US-racism-police-trial,SCENE Health-virus-WHO-China,WRAP GENEVA An international mission of experts to Wuhan has concluded it was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak, according to a report obtained by AFP. 850 words 2000 GMT by Nina Larson. Picture. Video. Graphic -- Please also see our special advisory on WHO's Covid origins report for full coverage -- Mozambique-unrest,WRAP PEMBA, Mozambique The northern Mozambique town of Palma is left all but deserted, its residents fleeing by road, boat or on foot as Islamic State militants claim control after an prolonged onslaught on a region home to a major international gas project. 850 words 2000 GMT. Video. Picture. Graphic Kenya-US-people-politics-Obama,2ndLead NAIROBI Sarah Obama, the grandmother of former US president Barack Obama, has died in Kenya at the age of 99 on Monday, her family says. 500 words moved. File video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Iraq-politics-corruption-imports,INVESTIGATION BAGHDAD Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials. 2,000 words moved by Maya Gebeily. Picture. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Iraq-corruption-family-migration,FOCUS Iraq-politics-corruption-budget-women,PROFILE -- CORONAVIRUS -- Britain-health-virus-politics LONDON People in England rush outdoors as sports return in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions, although Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns spiralling cases in Europe meant more deaths were inevitable. 700 words moved by Jitendra Joshi, Joe Jackson and James Pheby. Picture. Video Health-virus-Germany-politics,lead BERLIN The leader of Angela Merkel's CDU party pushes back against the chancellor's criticism that some of Germany's 16 states are straying from agreed Covid-19 measures, insisting they are taking the pandemic seriously. 650 words moved by Femke Colborne. Picture Health-virus-Australia BRISBANE More than two million people in Brisbane enter a three-day lockdown after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia's third-biggest city. 500 words moved by Holly Robertson. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Brazil-politics-diplomacy-health-virus,WRAP BRASILIA Brazil's foreign and defense ministers present their resignations, the latest figures in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's administration to fall amid a deadly surge of Covid-19 and the government's problems securing more vaccines. 550 words 2000 GMT by Jordi Miro. Picture. File picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON The United States suspends a trade pact with Myanmar and leads international condemnation of the junta's ruthless crackdown, as protesters and mourners take to the streets after the deadliest weekend since the military coup. 750 words moved. Graphic. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-children YANGON A Myanmar toddler miraculously survives a weekend air strike that killed his father in their bamboo hut near the coup-hit country's border with Thailand. 500 words moved. Picture Indonesia-bombings JAKARTA Two suicide bombers who attacked an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday were newlyweds who joined a pro-Islamic State extremist group, police say, as they arrest others suspected in the plot. 450 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICoast-unrest,WRAP KAFOLO, Ivory Coast Suspected Islamist militants kill three members of Ivory Coast's security forces overnight in attacks on the country's border with Burkina Faso, as warnings emerge jihadist plan to advance out of the Sahel region. 500 words moved by Aly Ouattara. Graphic. File picture -- EUROPE -- France-pharmaceutical-health-trial,WRAP PARIS A French court finds pharma giant Servier guilty of aggravated deceit and involuntary manslaughter over hundreds of deaths caused by its diabetes and weight loss pill, in one of France's biggest health scandals. 550 words moved by Caroline Taix and Anne-Sophie Lasserre. Picture. Video. Graphic Greece-EU-migration-Turkey,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND, Greece The EU's home affairs commissioner says Turkey should "urgently" resume accepting hundreds of migrants from Greece, days before EU chiefs are due to hold challenging talks in Ankara. 650 words moved by Chantal Valery with John Hadoulis in Athens. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Egypt-accident-rail,WRAP CAIRO Egypt has arrested eight people over a train collision last week, prosecutors say in a statement that also revises down to 18 people the death toll from the disaster. 450 words moved. File Picture Syria-conflict-UN-US-Russia-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the UN Security Council to reopen border crossings into Syria blocked by Russia, saying world powers should be ashamed by the nation's continued suffering. 550 words 2000 GMT by Philippe Rater with Shaun Tandon in Washington -- BUSINESS -- US-labor-Amazon-unions,WRAP BESSEMER, Alabama Voting concludes on whether to create the first Amazon labor union in the United States, at a warehouse in Alabama, after a historic, five-month David vs Goliath campaign. 750 words 1930 GMT by Julie Jammot. Picture US-aviation-Boeing-Southwest, WRAP NEW YORK US carrier Southwest Airlines agrees to buy 100 additional Boeing 737 MAX planes in a vote of confidence for the aircraft after a 20-month grounding. 650 words 2030 GMT by John Biers afp