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
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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 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: An argument among Taliban leaders escalated into a shoot-out in which four or five senior figures were killed (including the leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour) and more than a dozen wounded, according to government reports (but denied by the Taliban). The Afghan security forces – police and… Continue reading Issue 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
