03 August 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Macron promised to remove migrants from the streets and to house them in cheap hotels instead. The deradicalisation centre opened under the previous government has been closed, and the deradicalisation program judged a failure. STX, the country’s biggest ship-building company, is to be nationalised to prevent… Continue reading issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief International
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Issue 99: 2016 04 06:The attack on Khan Sheikhoun (Neil Tidmarsh)
06 April 2017 The Attack on Khan Sheikhoun. Assad, sarin gas and the Syrian opposition. by Neil Tidmarsh The defeat of rebel forces in Aleppo and their expulsion from that city clearly wasn’t the end of the civil war in Syria. It wasn’t even the beginning of the end. It was, however, the beginning of… Continue reading Issue 99: 2016 04 06:The attack on Khan Sheikhoun (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 97: 2017 03 23:Week in brief International
23 March 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: A 17 year old schoolboy armed with a shotgun wounded his headmaster and three pupils in an attack on his school on Grasse, before being overpowered by police. A suspected Islamist terrorist attacked security personnel at Orly airport. He was shot dead. Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron… Continue reading Issue 97: 2017 03 23:Week in brief International
Issue 86:2017 01 05:Week in Brief International
05 January 2017 Week In Brief: International Europe FINLAND: Police chief Jari Aarnio, who was the head of Helsinki’s anti-narcotics squad, was found guilty of running a drug smuggling operation in partnership with a Finnish organised crime gang, and sentenced to ten years in prison. FRANCE: A ‘right to disconnect’ law was passed, allowing workers… Continue reading Issue 86:2017 01 05:Week in Brief International
