14 December 2017 Lens on the Week UK GRENFELL TOWER: Today’s memorial service for those who died in the tragedy of Grenfell Tower brings focus to some of the pressures to which the disaster has given rise. Two are worth noting. The first is that as part of a campaign to appoint a panel representing… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 14:Lens on the Week
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Issue 129:2017 11 16:Lens on the Week
16 November 2017 A Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: There is gang warfare in the Cabinet. Foreign Secretary Johnson and Environment Secretary Gove have got over the animosity caused by Gove undermining Johnson’s leadership bid and now stand back-to-back in their shared concern that the Government is not putting sufficient energy into the… Continue reading Issue 129:2017 11 16:Lens on the Week
Issue 90: 2017 02 02:Week in Brief International
02 February 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: The government announced a ban on the burka and the niqab, and other measures to strengthen security and to integrate migrants. The governing coalition (Social Democrat Party and People’s Party) is hoping that such measures will take the wind out of the far-right Freedom party’s… Continue reading Issue 90: 2017 02 02:Week in Brief International
Issue76:2016 10 20: Week in Brief International
20 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: The government has bought the house in Braunau where Adolf Hitler was born, and plans to demolish it so it can’t become a neo-Nazi shrine. BELGIUM: The Wallonian parliament has blocked the trade deal between the EU and Canada. FRANCE: In the first debate between the candidates… Continue reading Issue76:2016 10 20: Week in Brief International
Isssue 75:2016 10 13:Week in brief International
13 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELGIUM: Two policemen were stabbed in Brussels. The attacker was arrested after another policeman shot him in the leg. Investigators are exploring the possibility that it was a terrorist attack. FRANCE: The French and German defence ministers signed an agreement in Paris for co-operation between the two… Continue reading Isssue 75:2016 10 13:Week in brief International
Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Week in Brief International
22 September 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe EU: EU president Jean-Claude Junker called for the creation of an EU army. The idea is unpopular with member states bordering Russia who worry that an EU army might displace NATO. At the Bratislava summit, EU leaders blamed Germany’s Chancellor Merkel for uncontrolled immigration. FRANCE: There… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: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 24:Exit from Syria, Exit From Yemen (Neil Tidmarsh)
24 March 2016 Exit From Syria, Exit From Yemen Saudi Arabia and Russia look at each other in the mirror of the Middle East’s conflicts. by Neil Tidmarsh Last week, Russia announced its military withdrawal from Syria; this week, Saudi Arabia announced its military withdrawal from Yemen. A curious coincidence, given that the conflict in… Continue reading Issue 46:2016 03 24:Exit from Syria, Exit From Yemen (Neil Tidmarsh)
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 12: 2015 07 23 INTERNATIONAL NEWS
23 July 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS BAHRAIN: A man accidentally blew himself up during a failed bomb attack on police in a Shia village. CAMEROON: The wearing of burkas and veils has been banned in the Far North region, following a suicide attack by women bombers which killed 14 people. CHINA: The state… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23 INTERNATIONAL NEWS
