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31/12/2015 GMT
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
Muted Celebrations for New Year's Eve in Europe
No celebrations in Brussels, no fireworks in Paris; Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
Security Concerns as Paris Prepares for 2016
President praises French 'resolve'; Dubai hotel fire; Israeli author's school book ban.
01/01/2016 GMT
Dubai Skyscraper Fire
Dramatic scenes at 63-storey hotel tower
Two Dead in Tel Aviv Shooting
Israeli police still seek suspect; Natalie Cole dies; Erdogan's Hitler comparison.
Saudi Arabia Executes Top Shia Cleric
Saudi execution sparks regional outrage; India airforce base attack; the first spacewalk
World Reacts to Shia Cleric's Execution
Saudi sectarian politics; Trump in al-Shabab video; Musical making Broadway history
Protestors target Saudi embassy in Tehran
Saudi embassy in Iran attacked; Georgia's church troubles; Snowboarding in North Korea
Did Executed Men in Saudi Have a Fair Trial?
Spotlight on Saudi legal system; Hong Kong's missing; Kyrgyz horse penis scandal
Deepening tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Row over execution of Shia Muslim cleric spreads; Sweden border security; periodic table
Saudi Arabia-Iran tensions rise
Row over execution of Shia cleric spreads; Sweden security; periodic table additions.
04/01/2016 GMT
US reaction to deteriorating relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia
US-Iran-Saudi relations; British jihadi IS video; Zinedine Zidane to run Real Madrid
05/01/2016 GMT
Hong Kong Bookseller
Mystery over disappearances deepens; Harry Belafonte; sport and sexism
Obama Unveils New Restrictions on Guns
Texas Lieutenant Governor on gun control; Cologne sex attacks; Lloyd Webber on Stigwood.
06/01/2016 GMT
North Korea "Successfully" Tests Hydrogen Bomb
Nuclear experts remain sceptical; Cologne sexual assaults; Pierre Boulez remembered
North Korea Condemned on Nuclear Test
North Korea condemned; Cologne eyewitness; Syria siege
07/01/2016 GMT
France Security Alert
Man shot dead in Paris; Syrian ceasefire deals; Revisiting The Beatles' spiritual retreat
Syria Allows Food for Madaya
Besieged Madaya to get food aid; special report from Yemen; when Nixon backed gun control
08/01/2016 GMT
The Impact of a Chinese Economic Downturn Abroad
What would Chinese crash mean for Europe?; India-Nepal blockade; Dinosaur mating rituals