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Week 3 2017

V = video report

My Pick of the Week

Disabled Syrian beats adversity by running German NGO

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38563161

WORLD NEWS

How South Korea stopped its parents aborting girls

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38362474

1 July 2016: armed Islamist militants storm a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh…

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38459996

FRANCE & Europe

French Polynesia signs first ‘floating city’ deal

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38647174

France holds Middle East peace summit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38608990

V Why aren’t the Israelis and Palestinians talking?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38614618

Icy storm lashes France and Germany causing hardship

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38607862

V US tanks and troops arrive in Poland

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38603234

Will Catalonia try to secede from Spain this year?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38582121

UK, USA & Canada

V Theresa May addresses Davos

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-38598881

V Obama’s advice to Trump: ‘Reality has a way of biting back’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38671714

V Theresa May: UK must leave European single market (video on the confusing Brexit options)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38641208

Trump worries Nato with ‘obsolete’ comment

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38635181

Democrat inauguration boycott grows

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38636136

US patients await Obamacare’s fate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38590922

Trump v his nominees on Russia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38590389

Russia and the art of ‘kompromat’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38613979

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Support for EU freedom of movement rules ‘eroding’

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38613027

Fiat accused over emissions software

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38600012

If you want to earn more work less

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170112-if-you-want-to-earn-more-work-less

HEALTH

Urine test reveals what you really eat

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38597284

Sport

Yip Pin Xiu: Singapore’s all-conquering Paralympian

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38504257

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

29 TV shows to watch out for in 2017

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170112-29-tv-shows-to-watch-out-for-in-2017

TRAVEL

The desolate English path that has killed more than 100 people

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170110-why-the-broomway-is-the-most-dangerous-path-in-britain

A surreal synchronised wave of light (where you can find synchronous fireflies)

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170112-a-surreal-synchronised-wave-of-light

MISCELLANEOUS

Lady Liberty to be black woman on new US $100 coin (unless someone vetoes it)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38622886

South Africa’s battle with the bottle

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38587655

Sudan diplomat in New York and other cases of diplomatic immunity

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38576257

Roy Smith – Sélection hebdomadaire d’articles du site web de la BBC
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