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Duty Editor: Kelly Macnamara Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Iran vows to 'proudly bypass' US sanctions + Frenzied push as US heads to midterm vote

Paris, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Nov, 2018 ) :Duty Editor: Kelly Macnamara Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Iran vows to 'proudly bypass' US sanctions + Frenzied push as US heads to midterm vote + Turkey says Saudi experts sent to 'cover up' Khashoggi murder + El Chapo goes on trial in New York + Italy soul-searching after family killed in floods Iran-US-sanctions-diplomacy-energy,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic republic "will proudly bypass sanctions" by the United States targeting the country's oil and financial sectors.

600 words 1000 GMT by Eric Randolph and Kay Armin Serjoie. Picture. Graphic Also moving: US-Iran-sanctions-diplomacy-energy-nuclear,CHRONO US-vote,WRAP CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee Republicans and Democrats make frenzied, final pushes to motivate their voters ahead of midterm elections seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump's divisive first two years in office.

750 words moved by Nicholas Kamm with Michael Mathes in Washington. Picture. Graphic. Video Turkey-Saudi-crime-diplomacy,WRAP ISTANBUL Saudi Arabia sent a team of experts to Istanbul to cover up evidence after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish official says, as mystery remains over the fate of his remains over a month following his killing.

650 words 1030 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture US-Mexico-crime-drugs-court,WRAP NEW YORK Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman goes on trial in New York, accused of running the world's biggest drug cartel and spending a quarter of a century smuggling more than 155 tons of cocaine into the United States.

700 words moved by Laura Bonilla. File Picture Italy-weather,WRAP ROME Devastating floods in Italy that saw an entire family killed when their home was engulfed in water sparks soul-searching over the perils of the country's vast illegal housing problem.

500 words 1100 GMT by Ella Ide. Picture. Video -- US ELECTIONS -- US-politics-vote-trade,FOCUS WASHINGTON Though by no means the top issue on voters' minds nationwide, Trump's multi-front trade battles have awkwardly pitted Republicans against their own president, and could give Democrats an extra edge in some of the country's most competitive races.

650 words moved by Douglas Gillison. File picture. Graphic US-vote-turnout,FOCUS NEW YORK The midterms are coming -- and celebrities, business leaders and even smartphone apps are pitching in to get as many Americans as possible to the polls for a key test of Donald Trump's presidency.

550 words moved by Catherine Triomphe Also moved: US-vote-economy-immigration-healthcare,FACTS US-vote-stakes,FACTS US-vote-candidates,FACTS -- middle EAST -- Saudi-rights-UN,WRAP GENEVA Countries gather at the UN in Geneva to review the rights record of Saudi Arabia, as it faces a torrent of international condemnation over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

650 words 1230 GMT by Nina Larson. Picture. Video Yemen-conflict,WRAP ADEN, Yemen Saudi Arabia and its allies say they are committed to de-escalating hostilities in Yemen as calls for a ceasefire mount after fierce fighting near a port crucial for humanitarian aid.

550 words 1100 GMT. File Picture. Video Syria-conflict-Palestinians-Yarmuk,SCENE YARMUK, Syria After years of fighting, crippling siege and bombardment, what was once the Palestinian diaspora's largest urban settlement in southern Damascus is but a sea of debris.

750 words 1030 GMT by Layal Abou Rahal. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-execution,ADVANCER WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is set to consider on Tuesday the fate of a death row prisoner who says the government's plan to execute him by lethal injection could cause him to choke on his own blood due a rare medical condition.

600 words moved by Charlotte Plaintive. File picture Antigua-Grenada-court-referenda-Britain,ADVANCER ST JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda Voters in two Caribbean countries long independent from Britain will wrestle with thorny issues of fairness and sovereignty on Tuesday as they go to the polls to decide whether to keep a London-based body as their final court of appeals or embrace a court much closer to home.

650 words moved by Gemma Handy. File picture -- ASIA -- US-China-trade-dispute-diplomacy,WRAP SHANGHAI President Xi Jinping pledges to widen access to China's economy, while delivering a veiled rebuke to Trumpism, as he kicks off an import expo amid foreign accusations that he has backtracked on promises to play fair on trade.

800 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video Thailand-Pakistan-religion-politics,FOCUS BANGKOK His family of seven share two small, squalid rooms in a cockroach-infested Bangkok apartment. But like many Pakistani Christians living illegally in Thailand, Farooz's sharpest worry is not poverty but arrest.

700 words moved by Aidan Jones. Picture Pakistan-religion-Khan-blasphemy,ANALYSIS ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Imran Khan's embattled administration wades deeper into political quicksand as the former cricketer faces mounting pressure over a deal struck with Islamists hardliners that analysts say has eroded faith in his government.

500 words 1030 GMT by Gohar Abbas and David Stout Indonesia-accident-aircraft JAKARTA Indonesia is to launch a "special audit" of Lion Air's operations in the wake of last week's deadly crash that killed 189 people, the government says.

450 words moved. Picture Myanmar-trial-media YANGON Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists file an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, the news agency says.

500 words moved. Video -- EUROPE -- EU-Italy-budgets-debt,WRAP BRUSSELS Eurozone finance ministers fall in behind Brussels in the row over Italy's budget, setting the stage for an unprecedented clash.

650 words 1200 GMT by Alex Pigman Russia-politics-rights,FOCUS MOSCOW Russian anarchists fear a backlash from the authorities after last week's suicide bomb attack on the security services by a teenage anarchist in the northern Russian city Arkhangelsk.

750 words moved by Ola Cichowlas -- AFRICA -- Madagascar-vote-politics,ADVANCER ANTANANARIVO Madagascar votes on Wednesday in a high-stakes election with three ex-presidents the frontrunners to lead the large Indian Ocean island rocked by tensions earlier this year.

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