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Barcelona pip rivals Real Madrid to the La Liga title on last day –
Barcelona pipped bitter rivals Real Madrid to the La Liga title thanks to a Luis Suarez hat-trick at Granada. Barca’s fifth victory in a row ensured they won the league by one point from Real, who beat Deportivo La Coruna 2-0. Suarez tapped in, powered home a header and slotted Neymar’s pass to give him La Liga’s golden boot with 40 goals. [BBC]
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Eurovision Song Contest: Ukraine’s Jamala wins competition –
Ukraine’s Jamala has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden.
The country scored 534 points with its song 1944, about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin. Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia – which was the favourite going into the competition – was third with 491 points. Jamala is the first ever Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest and caused controversy ahead of the show over her political song. The song references the year when Stalin deported almost all of the ethnic group from its native region of Crimea in what was then Soviet Russia (later to become part of Ukraine). [BBC]

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Recap of all the Eurovision Song Contest finalists

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Spanish BBVA La Liga Table 2015-16

Other News Stories –

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
  • At least two people are killed and 12 injured after a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in Helmand Province. (Stars and Stripes)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Turkey‘s Anadolu Agency reports that 45 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants have been killed by a combination of Turkish Army shelling and a U.S. air strike north of Aleppo. (Reuters vs Trust)
  • U.S. officials believe the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has declared a state of emergency in its self-declared capital, Al-Raqqah. (CNN) (FOX News) (CBS News)
• Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
  • At least 14 suicide bombers attack a complex, killing themselves and at least 6 people. (AP via FOX News)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
  • Ukraine‘s Jamala, performing the song “1944“, wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. This is Ukraine’s second win in the Eurovision Song Contest; their previous victory was in2004. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• More than 50 have been killed by lightning strikes in Bangladesh over the past two days. (BBC)
• A bus crashes on U.S. Route 83 in Texas about 46 miles north of the city of Laredo resulting in eight deaths and 44 injured. (AP)

Law and crime

• Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh
  • A Buddhist monk is hacked to death in Bangladesh. (VOA News) (CNN)
• At least three people are killed and dozens are wounded after a mass brawl, involving around 200 people, mostly North Caucasusian migrants, breaks out in Khovanskoye Cemetery in southwest Moscow. The Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin said that none of those responsible would go unpunished. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2016 state of emergency in Venezuela
  • Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro orders the seizure of factories that have stopped production and the jailing of their owners amid a nationwide state of emergency. During a speech to pro-government supporters in Caracas, he said the country had to recover the means of production, to counter its deep economic crisis. He also said military exercises would take place next weekend to counter “foreign threats”. (BBC)

Sport

• 2015–16 La Liga
  • In football, FC Barcelona wins La Liga for the 24th time. It is FC Barcelona’s second straight title and sixth in the last eight years. (Sports Illustrated)
• FA Women’s Cup
  • Arsenal LFC defeats Chelsea LFC 1-0 to win their 14th title before a record match for this fixture at Wembley Stadium. (Eurosport)

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