Sunday, June 6, 2021 (7.00 GMT)

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06 June 2021 – 07:01

G7 SUMMIT – London – After agreeing to new rules of the game on global taxation, leaders of the richest countries will hold their first face-to-face summit in two years in Cornwall next week to tackle climate change, job creation, the promotion of new technologies and the recovery from the pandemic.

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USA EUROPE – Washington – US President Joe Biden begins his first international trip to Europe next week, taking his proposal to create a global minimum tax on corporations, and with the unknown about the future of tariffs imposed by his predecessor, Donald Trump.

PERU ELECTIONS – Lima – Peruvians are summoned to the polls to choose between the leftist Pedro Castillo and the right-wing Keiko Fujimori their president for the next five years on the bicentennial of their country’s independence.

MEXICO ELECTIONS – Mexico City – More than 93 million people are called to vote in the largest elections in the history of Mexico, in which they will renew the Chamber of Deputies and 15 state governments after a campaign marked by dozens of candidate assassinations.

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GERMANY ELECTIONS – Berlin – The German state of Saxony Anhalt holds elections, the last elections before the general elections in September, with a tight race between the conservatives of the CDU of Angela Merkel and the far-right AfD.

BAFTA TELEVISIÓN – London – The Bafta Awards on British television celebrate their 67th edition with a blended gala in which the nominations, led by “Small Ax” and “The Crown”, celebrate diversity and seek to make UK minorities visible .

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INTERVIEWS

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BIRMANIA JOURNALIST – International Writing – Mratt Kyaw Thu reveals in an interview with Efe that he will start next week the process to request political asylum in Spain and become the first Burmese journalist with that status in the EU after the coup in his country, where the military junta has put the press in the spotlight.

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EU HISTORY – Brussels – In the grounds of an old zoo, converted into a park in the European quarter of Brussels, the House of European History opened its doors four years ago with the aim of showing all the perspectives of a common reality and reinforcing “links”, says its director, Constanze Itzel, in an interview with Efe. By Jorge Ocaña.

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CHRONICLES

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FRANCE MUSIC – Paris – Umm Kulthum, Fairuz, Warda, Dalida … The Arab World Institute pays tribute to the divas of Arab song, ambassadors of a period of splendor, which extols the role of women in the pan-Arab movement that ended the rise of religious conservatism. By María D. Valderrama

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PORTUGAL ARTE – Lisbon – Aurélia de Sousa observes from her self-portrait the visitor to Tudo o que eu quero (All I Want), an exhibition that brings together 120 years of art in Lisbon in which women have not been a muse, but an author. By Irene Barahona

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