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Week 4 2017 Lots of news this week – most of it about “you know who”

V = video report

My Pick of the Week

V How realistic is Donald Trump’s Mexico wall?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37243269

WORLD NEWS

Syria peace talks: Armed groups come in from the cold

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38712444

Islamic State group ‘lost quarter of territory’ in 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38641509

Where are Sierra Leone’s missing Ebola millions?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38718196

Reina attack highlights widening chasm in Turkish lifestyles

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38666280

FRANCE & Europe

V Why the French presidential election matters

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38682325

Francois Fillon ‘outraged’ over criticism of wife’s pay

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38745828

France’s Benoit Hamon rouses Socialists with basic income plan

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38723219

France election: Hamon and Valls in run-off for Socialist candidacy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38710897

Marine Le Pen hails patriotism as the policy of the future (at a meeting where she was judged too ‘socialist’)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38705176

France’s Socialists open battle for party’s future

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38676370

Trump inauguration

Why the row about inauguration ‘lies’?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38716191

President attacks ‘dishonest’ media over crowd photos (despite photographic evidence)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38707722

Compare 2017 with 2009 (interactive)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38682574

V Protesters vs supporters

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38709326

Eight ways President Donald Trump makes history

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38637123

Why more and more Democrats are refusing to go

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38659490

Trump presidency

Executive order pulls US out of TPP trade deal

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38721056

Ethics concerns swirl around Trump team (mainly concerning ‘conflict of interest’)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38526346

Can Obamacare be repealed?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38563143

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Brexit will damage UK and EU, says Pierre Moscovici

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38674197

HEALTH

Artificial intelligence predicts when heart will fail

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38635871

OTHER SITES

Hedge fund managers admit it: They’re delighted that Donald Trump “conned America”

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/01/hedge-fund-managers-admit-it-theyre-delighted-that-donald-trump-conned-america/

Will Trump’s Presidency Empower Creationists?

https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/will-trump-s-presidency-empower-creationists

The 5 Biggest Myths About School Vouchers (the Trump administration is in favour of school vouchers)

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2049761,00.html

Sport

Ball girl sends heartfelt letter to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38713952

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Tomorrow’s Cities: What can be done to improve air quality?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37372119

(Net) neutrality fear over Trump appointee

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38727781

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Why we must save dying languages

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140606-why-we-must-save-dying-languages

How Irish falconry changed (the English) language

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170111-how-irish-falconry-changed-language

TRAVEL

The highest waterfall on Earth

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170112-the-highest-waterfall-on-earth

Monstrous spiders and centipedes that prey on large animals (not recommended for those of a delicate nature)

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170118-monstrous-spiders-and-centipedes-that-prey-on-large-animals

MISCELLANEOUS

Iraqi Kurdish fashionistas make a splash

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38692382

The policemen who dressed as women to hide from IS (Unbelievable – something to laugh about from Syria)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38663595

Moth with ‘golden flake hairstyle’ named after Donald Trump

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38661250

Meet the people leaving Trump’s America

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170123-meet-the-people-leaving-trumps-america

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