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Week 11 2017

V = video report

My Pick of the Week

Richard Dawkins: Brits have NOT spoken on Brexit

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39218108

REFLECTION

When is a war actually a war?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39222619

Trump and the media – Is it war or love?

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39221378

WORLD NEWS

Dutch election: Voters return a new reality (Would that the good news continues!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39291069

V World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39238808

Burma: atrocities against the Rohingya & Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39204086

Putin and Netanyahu: A complex diplomatic dance

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39213488

Bolivia’s Morales boosts legal coca production

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39214085

FRANCE & Europe

French school shooting: ‘Several hurt’ in Grasse attack (breaking news)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39292755

Paris IMF letter bomb injures one employee

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39292671

EU workplace headscarf ban ‘can be legal’, says ECJ

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39264845

Francois Fillon placed under formal investigation

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39265906

Why has Erdogan riled Nato allies?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39255864

Germany axe attack: Seven injured at Duesseldorf train station

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39225847

UK, USA & Canada

Trump slump? US tourism industry fears downturn

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39121276

US hospitals oppose Trump-backed health bill (“poor Americans could lose insurance”)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39214165

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Ivanka Trump clothing brand sales ‘boom’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39210862

Girl statue faces Wall Street bull to fight gender inequality

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39204218

HEALTH

The town that built a mirror to catch the sun

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

V Hands-on with the jacket with Google woven in

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39263273

V Luckless lizard completely fails to spot venomous snake (young David Attenborough and Montpellier snake)

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-luckless-lizard-completely-fails-to-spot-venomous-snake

Uber stops using Greyball ‘secret program’ to dodge regulators

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39214925

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Why The Silence of the Lambs is a feminist fable

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170307-why-the-silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-feminist-fable

MISCELLANEOUS

The wreck of the Titanic is being eaten and may soon vanish (we also discover in what circumstances the wreck was discovered!)

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-is-being-eaten-and-may-soon-vanish

The calf that survived the slaughterhouse (features Arkansas accent)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39232867

‘Justin Bieber impostor’ on 931 child sex-related charges

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39214515

 

 

Roy Smith – This week’s crop of BBC website articles
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