BBC (etc.) website articles week 8 2018

My Pick of the Week

The tactics of a Russian troll farm

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43093390

WORLD NEWS

Have the Winter Olympics repaired North-South Korea relations?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43063399

FRANCE & Europe

France to let wolf population grow despite farmers’ fears

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43122088

National service will be obligatory – French government spokesman

http://en.rfi.fr/france/20180213-national-service-will-be-obligatory-french-government-spokesman

Maëlys

Former soldier confesses to ‘accidental’ killing of nine-year old French schoolgirl who went missing at a wedding (possible links to other murders)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/14/former-soldier-confesses-accidental-killing-nine-year-old-french/

Colleagues donate leave to mother

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43090196

UK, USA & Canada

Six radical ways to tackle US school shootings

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43118865

In Florida aftermath, US students say ‘Never Again’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43105699

How US mass shootings are getting worse

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41474594/las-vegas-how-us-mass-shootings-are-getting-worse

Seven key takeaways from the Russian indictments

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43093260

HEALTH

Ultra-processed foods ‘linked to cancer’

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43064290

Austria’s plan to stub out smoking ban prompts health plea (another reason to fear right-wing populists)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43057842

EDUCATION & FAMILY

One in six children ‘affected by conflict’ – Save the Children

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43059413

‘Guns and survivalists, but no school until I was 17’ (“home schooling” [was] really « no schooling »)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43038598

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Bringing solar power to a remote community in the Himalayas

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-43116948/bringing-solar-power-to-a-remote-community-in-the-himalayas

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Photographer Stephen Wilkes shows day to night in one image

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43119445/photographer-stephen-wilkes-shows-day-to-night-in-one-image

Rio carnival: Samba school wins with anti-corruption message

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43067679

How Paris changed how we think

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180213-how-paris-changed-how-we-think

MISCELLANEOUS

Mexico theme park offers illegal migrant experience (as a deterrent, they say)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-43043405/mexico-theme-park-offers-illegal-migrant-experience