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V = video report

My Pick of the Week

Coffee under threat: Will it taste worse as the planet warms?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337

WORLD NEWS

In Pictures World events: 3-9 June 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-40308278

Why Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri mattered

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39339373

Mosul battle: Despair and death as civilians flee (« IS snipers… kept shooting at us »)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40307827

India internet shutdowns ‘violate human rights’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40298722

FRANCE & Europe

Brexit and security loom large at EU summit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40362574

Emmanuel Macron’s conquest is complete – what now?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40322516

Top Macron ally Bayrou quits French government

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40351918

Champs Elysees: Car ‘deliberately hits’ police van in Paris

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40332532

UK, USA & Canada

The triumph that wasn’t (UK general election)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/General_election

US Supreme Court to rule on gerrymandering

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40332019

V Finsbury Park attack: Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40322960

V London fire: Protests held as fire anger increases

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40298473

V Is Trump really ‘cancelling’ Obama’s Cuba policy? (What Trump says vs the facts)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40307212/is-trump-really-cancelling-obama-s-cuba-policy

Otto Warmbier: US doctors dispute N Korean coma story

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40297248

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40306099

Barclays charged with fraud in Qatar case

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40338220

HEALTH

Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter’

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40300145

OTHER SITES

A review of Theresa vs Boris: How May became PM (if it’s ever on French TV watch it)

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/television/theresa-vs-boris-retold-story-equal-parts-house-cards-whitehall-farce/

EDUCATION & FAMILY

Foreign languages – the north south divide

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-40288547

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Portugal wildfires: Why are they so deadly?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40341180

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

V How a South Sudanese refugee became a supermodel

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40332640/how-a-south-sudanese-refugee-became-a-supermodel

MISCELLANEOUS

V (Have you) Ever wondered what Jared Kushner sounds like? (disappointingly normal)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40336129/ever-wondered-what-jared-kushner-sounds-like

Tunisian women who want to be virgins again

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40288822

 

 

Roy Smith – BBC website articles Week 25 2017
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