06 April 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe ITALY: Police arrested three Kosovans suspected of planning a bomb attack on Venice’s Rialto Bridge on behalf of Isis. RUSSIA: A bomb exploded in a crowded Metro train in St Petersburg, killing 11 people and injuring 50 others. Another bomb nearby was found nearby and defused. … Continue reading Issue99:2017 04 06: week in brief international
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Issue 96:2017 03 16:Week in Brief International
16 March 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe DENMARK: The Prime Minister asked the Turkish prime minister to postpone his visit because of Turkish/EU tensions (see NETHERLANDS below). FRANCE: More than 50 teenagers were arrested after gangs attacked three schools in suburbs north of Paris. The riots started when demonstrations by pupils protesting against… Continue reading Issue 96:2017 03 16:Week in Brief International
Issue94: 2017 03 02:Week in Brief International
02 March 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Prosecutors opened a criminal inquiry against Francois Fillon. It will probably be months before criminal charges can be made; in the meantime, M.Fillon says he will stay in the race for president. A parliamentary report concluded that President Hollande’s plan to de-radicalise militant French Islamists has… Continue reading Issue94: 2017 03 02:Week in Brief International
Issue 93:2017 02 23:Week in Brief International
23 February 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe CYPRUS: Talks about the reunification of Cyprus came to halt when the Turkish Cypriot negotiators withdrew in protest at last week’s decision by the Greek Cypriot parliament to introduce a national remembrance day for Enosis (the Greek Cypriot decision in 1950 for the island to be… Continue reading Issue 93:2017 02 23:Week in Brief International
Issue 92:2017 02 16:Week in brief International
16 February 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe FRANCE: Rioting has spread through the Paris districts of Bobigny, Argeteuil and Ulis (and to the towns of Nantes, Toulouse and Rouen) since the arrest of a young black man in Aulnay-sous-Bois ten days ago. The manager of the En Marche! movement claimed that Russia has… Continue reading Issue 92:2017 02 16:Week in brief International
Issue 92:2017 02 16: Poisonous Headlines (Neil Tidmarsh)
16 February 2017 Poisonous Headlines “We have a lot of killers.” by Neil Tidmarsh Welcome to the Shaw Sheet crime club. I lay before you three cases from this week’s global headlines. Three prime cases of apparent political assassination, not from the Renaissance Italy of Assassin’s Creed and Machiavelli, but from the here and now,… Continue reading Issue 92:2017 02 16: Poisonous Headlines (Neil Tidmarsh)
