27 July 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe FRANCE: The chief of the armed forces resigned after Macron gave him a dressing down for complaining about defence cuts. GREECE: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean (hitting the Greek island of Kos, and also Bodrum in Turkey) left 2 people dead and 500 injured.… Continue reading !ssue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief International
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Issue112:2017 07 06:Week in Brief International
06 July 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: The defence minister announced plans to send troops and armoured vehicles to blockade the Brenner Pass to stop migrants entering the country from Italy. FRANCE: President Macron summoned the members of both the Assembly and the Senate to Versailles, and addressed them about his aims… Continue reading Issue112:2017 07 06:Week in Brief International
Issue77:2016 10 27:Week in Brief International
27 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: The authorities have cleared the ‘jungle’ – the unofficial migrant camp outside Calais. Migrants have been registered and moved to official centres around France. ITALY: Some Italian naval officers are under investigation for suspected culpable homicide over an incident in 2013 in which 268 migrants drowned… Continue reading Issue77:2016 10 27:Week in Brief International
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: International
18 August 2016 Week In Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: Nine Iraqi asylum-seekers were arrested in Vienna on suspicion of raping a German tourist on New Year’s day. A man armed with a knife seriously injured two teenagers on a train. The attacker, who is said to have mental health problems, was arrested. FRANCE: The mayor… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: International
Issue 60:2016 06 30:Week in Brief International
30 June 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe EU: Following the UK referendum result, European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker demanded a rapid application of Article 50 by the UK. Other EU leaders warned the UK against delaying the application, and insisted that negotiations could not begin until the application was made. They also insisted… Continue reading Issue 60:2016 06 30:Week in Brief International
Issue 46: 2016 03 23:Week in brief International
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
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 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 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
Issue 30: 2011 11 26: Week in Brief: International
26 November 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL ARGENTINA: In the election’s second round of voting, opposition leader Mauricio Macri, the Buenas Aires mayor who stands for centre-right free-market liberalism, defeated the left-wing protectionist Daniel Scioli, the protégé of the out-going President Kirchner. AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, thought to have been started by lightning, killed a farmer and… Continue reading Issue 30: 2011 11 26: Week in Brief: International
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: A US drone strike has killed Shahidullah Shahid (a senior Isis commander) and five other militants, according to the Afghan intelligence agency. BAHRAIN: Ibrahim Sharif, an opposition leader who was jailed following Arab Spring protests, has been arrested a month after finishing his four-year sentence. BRAZIL:… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news
9 July 2015 Week in Brief : INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: Four men sentenced to death for leading a mob which murdered a woman accused of burning a Koran have had their sentences reduced. An appeal court in Kabul sentenced three of the men to twenty years in jail and the fourth to ten years.… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news
