22 December 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: The government plans to turn the birth-place of Adolph Hitler into a centre for the disabled. They have tabled a compulsory purchase order for the property in Braunau am Inn, and were originally planning to demolish it but realised that might amount to denying the… Continue reading Issue 85: 2016 12 22: International News in Brief
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Issue 74: 2016 10 06:Week in brief (international)
06 October 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: A re-run of the recent elections has been postponed for two months until December. GERMANY: The interior minister Thomas de Mazière said that the Dublin convention should be reinstated. This insists that immigrants should be returned to the first EU country they enter. Prosecutors have… Continue reading Issue 74: 2016 10 06:Week in brief (international)
Issue 71:2016 09 15:Week in Brief International
15 September 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe EU: Leaders of the “Club Med” EU nations – France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus – met in Athens to prepare for next week’s EU summit in Bratislava. They are expected to call for a relaxation of the EU’s public spending rules. The Visegard Group – a… Continue reading Issue 71:2016 09 15:Week in Brief International
Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Week in Brief International
21 April 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe GERMANY: The comic Jan Böhmermann, who broadcast a satirical anti-Erdogan poem on TV, has been put under police protection. Chancellor Merkel has agreed that he is to be prosecuted under an old and little-used law – “insulting a foreign head of state” – which needs the approval… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Week in Brief International
Issue 26:2015 10 29:Week in Brief International
29 October 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban and the Afghan army are fighting over the city of Lashkar Gar for control of Helmand province. The army drove the Taliban back from the city of Ghazni last week, and from the city of Kunduz the week before. ARGENTINA: The first round of elections… Continue reading Issue 26:2015 10 29:Week in Brief International
Issue23:2015 10 08:Week in brief international
08 October 2015 Week in Brief:INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: US airstrikes, and US and British special forces are helping the Afghan army to retake Kunduz from the Taliban. The city fell in hours last week; the governor, senior commanders and thousands of Afghan troops fled as 1,500 Taliban troops (out-numbered by several to one) attacked. The US… Continue reading Issue23:2015 10 08:Week in brief international
Issue 22:2015 10 01:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
1 October 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have captured the northern city of Kunduz. BANGLADESH: An Italian aid worker was shot dead in Dhaka. ISIS have claimed responsibility for the murder. BURKINA FASO: Last week’s military coup has failed. Soldiers have withdrawn from the capital Ouagadougou. The transitional government of interim president… Continue reading Issue 22:2015 10 01:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
