24 March 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELGIUM: Three suicide bombers launched an attack on Brussels airport which killed at least 14 people and injured many others. It is believed that one of the attackers fled and is still at large. Just over an hour later, a bomb attack on the Brussels underground Metro,… Continue reading Issue 46: 2016 03 23:Week in brief International
Category: Week In Brief International
Issue 45:2016 03 17:Week in Brief International
17 March 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELGIUM: One terror suspect was killed and another escaped when French and Belgian police raided a property in the Forest suburb of Brussels. Four police officers were injured. FRANCE: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, including students and trades unionists, marched through French cities to protest against President… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17:Week in Brief International
Issue 44:2016 03 10: Week in Brief International
10 March 2016 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL Europe EU: At the EU summit in Brussels, Angela Merkel backed proposals to double the amount of EU funding from €3 billion to €6 billion to be given to Turkey and to grant its citizens the right to visa-free travel within the Schengen zone, in return for its… Continue reading Issue 44:2016 03 10: Week in Brief International
issue 43:2016 03 03: Week in Brief International
03 March 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: A group of central and southern European countries met in Vienna to tighten border controls. The meeting was independent of the EU and included Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Bulgaria (all EU members) as well as Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo (non EU countries). … Continue reading issue 43:2016 03 03: Week in Brief International
Issue 42:2016 02 25:Week in Brief International
25 February 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELARUS: The EU has lifted sanctions against Belarus, imposed in 2004 after a number of political activists disappeared. The UN still describes the human rights situation as “dismal” and the opposition leader Andrei Sannikov condemned the EU’s decision. BELGIUM: Belgium has reintroduced border controls on its frontier… Continue reading Issue 42:2016 02 25:Week in Brief International
Issue 41:2016 02 18:Week in Brief International
18 February 2016 Week in Brief: International CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: The second election in two months was held. Last December’s election was annulled after more than 400 irregularities were alleged. CZECH REPUBLIC: The prime ministers of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic met to draw up plans to close the migrant route through the… Continue reading Issue 41:2016 02 18:Week in Brief International
Issue 40: 2016 02 11:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
11 February 2016 Week in Brief: International CANADA: Canada is to stop airstrikes against Isis and withdraw its six air force planes from Iraq and Syria later this month, to fulfil new prime minister Justin Trudeau’s election pledge. EGYPT: The body of an Italian postgraduate student studying at Cambridge university who disappeared two weeks ago… Continue reading Issue 40: 2016 02 11:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Issue 39: 2016 02 04:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
04 February 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban suicide bomber murdered 20 people and wounded at least 29 others outside a police station in Kabul. Afghan ground forces and coalition airstrikes attacked a new Isis radio station which has been broadcasting propaganda in Nangarhar province. AUSTRALIA: Tasmania’s World Heritage status forests have been… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Week in Brief: International
28 January 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A suicide bomber killed seven employees of the TV channel TOLO and injured at least 25 other people. Last year the Taliban announced that they would be targeting the channel. President Obama has authorised US special forces to combat Isis-affiliated groups, which have infiltrated Afghanistan from Pakistan.… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Week in Brief: International
Issue 37:2016 01 21:Week in Brief International
21 January 2016 Week in Brief: International BURKONO FASO: Four militants from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked a café and a hotel in Ougadoudou with bombs and firearms. At least 28 people from nine countries (including Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France) were killed. The militants were killed when local troops… Continue reading Issue 37:2016 01 21:Week in Brief International
Issue 36: 2016 01 14:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
14 January 2016 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: Afghan forces in Sangin are still under siege by the Taliban. Reinforcements have not succeeded in breaking through to them. Fierce fighting is also taking place in Marjah district. The other twelve of Helmand province’s fourteen districts are already under Taliban control. The Afghan airforce struck against… Continue reading Issue 36: 2016 01 14:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Issue 35:2016 01 07: Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
07 January 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban suicide car bomber murdered two people and wounded fifteen others in an attack on a restaurant in Kabul. Over thirty people were wounded in two bomb attacks near Kabul airport. A Taliban attack in Helmand province killed one US soldier and injured two others. AUSTRALIA:… Continue reading Issue 35:2016 01 07: Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Issue 34: 2015 12 24: Week in Brief: International
24 December 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: Isis-affiliated groups continue to fight the Taliban for ground and influence along the border with Pakistan. The town of Sangin, in Helmand province, is under siege by the Taliban. British and US special forces are helping efforts to break through to the reportedly poorly-supplied Afghan army defending… Continue reading Issue 34: 2015 12 24: Week in Brief: International
