08 June 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BOSNIA: President Dodik of the Serb Republic in Bosnia banned textbooks teaching the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica genocide. EU: The president of the European Council has asked the president of the European Commission to block Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2, the proposed Russian gas pipeline… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:Week in Brief International
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Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
24 September 2015 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BREAKDOWN: The extraordinary confession by Volkswagen Group that it had carried out sophisticated amendments to the software which governs its car engine management systems, so that when the engine is under test it will reduce emissions to meet USA standards – which the engines in normal… Continue reading Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 17: 2015 08 27: Tianjin: It Tolls For Thee
27 August 2015 Tianjin: It Tolls For Thee By John Watson Children with a taste for philosophy used to ask each other a difficult question. “Which would you prefer,” they would say, “the death of someone close to you or the deaths of 1 million foreigners?” That was of course a trap. Any child would… Continue reading Issue 17: 2015 08 27: Tianjin: It Tolls For Thee
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: International News
20 August 2015 News in Brief:INTERNATIONAL NEWS AUSTRALIA: Surfers’ beaches at Ballina, Lennox Head and Bondi Beach have been abandoned following shark attacks and sightings off the New South Wales coast. BAHRAIN: Ibrahim Sharif, the former head of the opposition National Democratic Action Society, is facing new charges of urging the overthrow of the… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: International News
