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Paris, Dec 9 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Dec, 2018 ) :Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + All eyes on Macron after hundreds arrested in protests + Armenia votes in snap polls to cement reform drive + Trump's chief of staff to leave White House + Violence-hit Libertadores final set for Madrid France-politics-protests,WRAP PARIS More than 1,700 people are arrested across France during the latest "yellow vest" protests against President Emmanuel Macron as demonstrators clashing with riot police cause more damage in Paris than a week ago.

800 words. 1030 GMT by Katy Lee. Picture. Graphic Armenia-vote-parliament,WRAP YEREVAN Armenians vote in parliamentary elections triggered years ahead of schedule by reformist leader Nikol Pashinyan, who is aiming to cement his political authority in the post-Soviet country.

500 words 1000 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video. Live video We have also moved: Armenia-vote,FACTS US-politics-Trump-Kelly,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump announces his chief of staff John Kelly will soon be leaving the administration -- the latest key personnel move at a time of reported White House turmoil amid mounting pressure from the Russia probe.

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Also moved: US-politics-Kelly,PROFILE US-politics-investigation-Trump-Mueller-filing,POINTS Fbl-LatAm-C1-Libertadores-Boca-River,WRAP MADRID The violence-hit Copa Libertadores final between Boca Juniors and River Plate is to be finally concluded in the Spanish capital on Sunday, thousands of miles from Argentina and 15 days later than planned.

700 words 1100 GMT by Tom Allnutt. Picture -- middle EAST -- Saudi-diplomacy-GCC-summit,WRAP RIYADH Saudi Arabia hosts a summit of Arab Gulf leaders as crises brew over the war in Yemen, the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a bitter dispute with Qatar.

600 words 1000 GMT by Abdul Hadi Habtor Also moving: Saudi-diplomacy-GCC,FACTS Lebanon-real-estate-bank-construction,FOCUS BEIRUT Ghostly apartment blocks and half-built buildings dot Lebanon, as entrepreneurs and experts fear that the country's key real estate sector is on the brink of collapse.

800 words moved by Bachir el-Khoury. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Prime Minister Theresa May warns that parliament's failure to back her Brexit deal on Tuesday threatened to leave Britain in the European Union and bring the liberal opposition Labour Party to power.

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Picture We will also move: Britain-EU-Brexit-May,PROFILE Already moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics Wales,FOCUS Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-scenarios,FACTS Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-nodeal,FACTS -- AFRICA -- Nobel-peace-DRCongo-unrest,INTERVIEW OSLO Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege may have won the Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war, but the crusading surgeon said the groundwork for equality must be laid in peacetime, as he praised movements like #MeToo.

550 words moved by Kelly Macnamara and Pierre-Henry Deshayes. Picture Nobel-peace-DRCongo-health-children,FOCUS BUKAVU, DR Congo Lucie was just seven years old when the men took her. She was found the next day, naked and bleeding, on the edge of the vast forested hills of Kahuzi Biega Park, in violence-plagued eastern DR Congo. Her injuries were so serious she was taken to Denis Mukwege.

750 words moved by Samir Tounsi and Ricky Ombeni. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-Mexico-drugs-trial,POINTS NEW YORK From documents under seal and accomplices with colorful nicknames to suspicions about his wife and surreal details about his high-flying lifestyle, the first month of the US trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been loaded with twists and turns.

800 words moved by Laura Bonilla. File Picture Germany-US-genocide-religion,FOCUS NEW YORK They survived the Europe of the Holocaust. But a recent rise in anti-Semitic acts in the United States has rekindled old fears: Should they again go into hiding, or should they instead reach out to share their experiences? 700 words moved by Thomas Urbain, Picture. Video US-politics-military,2ndlead WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump announces he is nominating Army chief of staff General Mark Milley as his next top military advisor -- a new slap in the face for Pentagon chief Jim Mattis.

550 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume. File picture -- ASIA -- China-Canada-US-diplomacy-Huawei BEIJING China summons the Canadian ambassador over the "unconscionable and vile" detention of telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer in Vancouver, state media reports, in Beijing's latest angry response to the hot-button case.

500 words moved -- sports -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-race-Liverpool-ManCity,FOCUS LONDON Manchester City -- Premier League champions-elect in the eyes of many -- now know they are in a real scrap after Liverpool leapfrogged them to the top of the table on a telling day in the title race.

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