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VIRUS OUTBREAK (sent, developing)

VIRUS OUTBREAK-DEATH RATE Q&A (sent)

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-CLYBURN (sent)

ELECTION 2020 (sent, developing)

MEXICO-INDUSTRY-AND-VIOLENCE (sent)

SHARAPOVA RETIRES (sent, developing)

-------------———-——————— WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT -------------———-——————— BRITAIN-PRINCE HARRY — Call me Harry: Prince eschews royal label in Scotland speech. SENT: 290 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-LATIN AMERICA — Brazil confirms first coronavirus case in Latin America. SENT: 350 words, photos.

INDIA-BUS ACCIDENT — Bus carrying wedding party crashes into India river; 24 dead. SENT: 130 words, photo.

FLASH-GORDON-ARTWORK-AUCTION — Original “Flash Gordon” comic strip art headed to auction. SENT: 170 words, photo.

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VIRUS-OUTBREAK — Scientists race to find a treatment, crews scrub everything from money to buses, and quarantines are enforced from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island in the Pacific as the world fights the spread of a new virus. By Kim Tong-Hyung and Matt Sedensky. SENT: 980 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-AT A GLANCE.

VATICAN-ASH WEDNESDAY — The Vatican was going ahead with plans for Pope Francis to celebrate the Ash Wednesday ritual kicking off the Catholic Church's Lenten season, but elsewhere in Italy Masses were canceled over fears of the new coronavirus and other Catholic countries took precautions. SENT: 510 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-DEATH RATE Q&A — Scientists can't tell yet just how deadly the new respiratory virus that's spreading the globe really is. Deepening the mystery, the fatality rate differs even from one part of China to another. One reason is that other parts of China had time to prepare while the health care system for Wuhan, the outbreak's epicenter, was quickly overwhelmed. Experts caution that as other countries struggle to contain clusters of cases, they may have a similar learning curve. By Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard. SENT: 710 words, photo.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALY — Italy sought to rally international support for its efforts to contain the country's virus outbreak even as its death toll rose to 12 and the caseload reached 374, more Europeans linked to Italy got sick and the World Health Organization urged a scaled-up response. SENT: 870 words, photos.

TRUMP-INDIA-PROTESTS — At least 22 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided with President Trump's first state visit to India, with the death toll expected to rise as hospitals continue to take in the wounded, authorities say. SENT: 990 words, photos. With TRUMP-INDIA-PROTESTS-HOSPITAL — Victims of Delhi's deadly communal clashes fill hospital.

EGYPT-MUBARAK FUNERAL — Egypt held a full-honors military funeral for the country's former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for decades before he was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that swept much of the region. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

MEXICO-INDUSTRY-AND-VIOLENCE — Mexico’s drug war has long played out in dusty northern border cities or the poppy fields of its southern mountains, but now the killings have moved to the conservative industrial heartland state of Guanajuato, creating a strange duality: shiny new auto plants and booming foreign investment even as the state becomes Mexico’s most violent. SENT: 1,480 words, photos.

MALAYSIA-POLITICS — Mahathir Mohamad says that he will form a new nonpartisan government if he is elected to return as Malaysia's prime minister, as the king completes two days of consultations with lawmakers to resolve a political vacuum caused by the abrupt collapse of Mahathir's ruling coalition. SENT: 750 words, photos.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE — A former senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that Ukraine will never be able to regain control over the separatist-controlled east. SENT: 500 words, photos. With RUSSIA-PUTIN — Putin: Russian opposition provoked summer police violence. SENT: 260 words, photos.

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ELECTION 2020 — Democrats unleashed a roaring assault against Bernie Sanders and seized on Mike Bloomberg’s past with women in the workplace during a contentious debate that tested the strength of the two men at the center of the party’s presidential nomination fight. SENT: 1,350 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing. With ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-TAKEAWAYS, ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-FACT CHECK (both sent)

ELECTION 2020-ANALYSIS — Sanders has spent much of his career on the political margins, but now he is learning what it’s like to be the front-runner for a major political party. In the latest Democratic presidential debate, his leadership credentials were challenged and his temperament tested like no other time in his career. By Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace. SENT: 990 words, photos, video.

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-CLYBURN — Rep. Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of Congress and the kingmaker of South Carolina's Democratic political orbit, has endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign. The backing could provide a much-needed boost for the former vice president heading into South Carolina's primary. SENT: 600 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-WANING-WEST COAST-GOP — Demographic shifts are helping push the Republican Party into a nosedive along the West Coast. The last Republican presidential candidate that California went for was George H.W. Bush. For Oregon and Washington, it was Ronald Reagan. Now Republicans in the three states are struggling to hold seats in Congress, statehouses and city councils. SENT: 930 words, photos.

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OPIOID CRISIS-GENERIC DRUGMAKERS — The maker of OxyContin is often seen as the key villain in the opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, but makers of generic drugs shipped far more of the powerful prescription painkillers. By Geoff Mulvihill and Larry Fenn. SENT: 980 words, photo.

CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES-UTILITY — A utility company blamed for a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that left one person dead and damaged dozens of homes has agreed to plead guilty to breaking pipeline safety laws, federal officials say. SENT: 260 words, photos.

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FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street as the market finds its footing following back-to-back drops of more than 3% as fears spread about economic fallout from the virus outbreak. SENT: 560 words, photo.

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SHARAPOVA RETIRES — Maria Sharapova is quietly walking away from tennis at the age of 32, ending a career that featured five Grand Slam titles, time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings and a 15-month doping ban. SENT: 530 words, photos.

TOKYO-VIRUS-OUTBREAK — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months. By Sports Writer Stephen Wade. SENT: 880 words, photos.

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