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World Service,30 Nov 2021,49 mins

Barbados bids goodbye to the Queen

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The island becomes the world's newest republic - replacing Queen Elizabeth with a president at a ceremony attended by Prince Charles. Australia pauses plans to reopen its borders - joining other countries closing entry points in response to the Omicron variant of Coronavirus. And the jazz icon and World War 2 resistance agent, Josephine Baker, is to be given a posthumous resting place in France's Pantheon - a place for national heroes - later today. She’s the first black woman to be honoured in this way.

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