The World News Crossword - November 18th, 2018

The World News Crossword - November 18th, 2018

4 crossword puzzles, downloaded as a PDF to print for your whole class.

1. A crossword based on the events of last week’s world news.
2. A crossword about Yemen which has featured in the news over the past few weeks,
3. A crossword about Great Britain which has also featured in the news over the past few weeks - Brexit!, and
4. A crossword about women political leaders around the world.

So, what were some of last week’s news events?
A bus caught fire in Zimbabwe and whole towns in California were destroyed by fire. Brazil’s new foreign minister thinks climate change is a Marxist conspiracy. Fish in the Amazon with plastic in them. EU politicians asked Amazon to stop selling products that glorified the USSR. Finland summoned the Russian ambassador to explain why Finland’s GPS was messed about with. A Norwegian navy frigate was sunk after it hit an oil tanker and a naval submarine that sank a year ago was found. Morocco inaugurated the fastest train service in Africa, from Casablanca to Tangiers. Scientists voted to change the way the kilogram is defined. New Zealand’s police discovered almost 200 kilograms of cocaine in a shipment of bananas, but that was small bananas compared to this: Iran’s government intercepted 6 tonnes of heroin being shipped to Europe. And finally - Britain said it would ‘urge’ the UN Security Council to initiate a truce in the Yemen war.