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China debates nationwide smoking ban amid fears of a rollback
Anti-smokers want Beijing rules adopted nationwide but tobacco lobby is strong
Monsanto shares close below price offered in Bayer deal
Shares up but market reacts to expectations of ‘regulatory hiccups’
European stocks slide as oil tumbles once more
Paddy Power Betfair makes successful debut on Dublin and London markets
Syngenta rejects $45 billion Monsanto takeover offer
Companies have hired banks to evaluate deal - sources
China’s Communist Party meeting ends with legal reforms
No word of showdown with former security czar Zhou Yongkang
UN base in South Sudan stormed
UN peacekeepers among the casualties as Uganda called upon to urgently mediate
Filipino authorities lower typhoon Haiyan death toll
Number who died now placed at 2500 according to president Aquino
UK signs nuclear plant deal with France’s EDF to build nuclear power station
Station to be located at Hinkley Point in south-west England
Britain to begin construction of first nuclear plant in two decades
Government hands a multi-billion deal to France’s EDF Energy
China cracks down on corruption to shore up Communist Party support
Xi Jinping sees fighting graft as central to Party survival
Beijing steps up corruption crackdown with dismissal of leading cadre Jiang Jiemin
Anti-graft move also sees ‘Brother Watch’ get 14 years in jail
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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