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Week 25 2016
WORLD NEWS
Refugees at highest ever level, reaching 65m, says UN
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36573082
Tricky task for Rome’s first female mayor
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36574168
FRANCE
France’s first Shakespearean-style theatre vandalised
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36578935
French policeman snubs president (by refusing to shake his hand)
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36563152
UK EU referendum (comments on the results – next week)
Soros warns of Brexit threat to pound and jobs
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36582026
EU Referendum campaigns remain suspended after Jo Cox attack
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36553442
Five reasons Brexit could signal Trump winning the White House
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36564808
UK, USA & Canada
Arrested Briton ‘wanted to shoot Donald Trump’
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36582770
Canada’s parliament passes assisted suicide bill
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36566214
Canada MPs back gender-neutral changes to national anthem
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36545632
Jo Cox death: What we know about the suspect
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36558386
Orlando shootings: Democrats in 14-hour gun control filibuster
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36545432
Chicago man shot dead during Facebook live-stream
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36566635
US Senate rejects gun control bills
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36563337
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Revlon to buy Elizabeth Arden for $870m
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36557205
Inside Disney’s new Shanghai resort
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36545493
Is the world turning its back on free trade?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36526845
OTHER SITES
Vitamin supplements are waste of money, say scientists
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/17/vitamin-supplements-waste-money-scientists
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
UK astronaut Tim Peake prepares for return to Earth
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36519885
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Pakistan ‘honour’ killing: Why clerics’ call may fall on deaf ears (see comments by “Lahore-based intellectual Mushtaq Soofi” at the end of the article)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36542285
Chinese lesbian sues ministry over gay ‘disorder’ textbook
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36545899
(In pictures) Less is more: minimalism in Japan
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36574697
MISCELLANEOUS
Video shows China bank employees being spanked
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36583486
‘Strawberry moon’ on summer solstice – first since 1967
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/36580391
The Greek refugees who fled to the Middle East in WW2
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36499727
‘Sushi’ children defy Sunni-Shia divide
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36528536
Auschwitz SS trial: Will Hanning case be Germany’s last?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36536325
Football & violence – a perfect match?
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36546220
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