The Week that was - 12 March 2017

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TheBritisher

Published on Mar 12, 2017

A roundup of some of the lesser news of the last week.

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Portrait of George Osborne:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/GeorgeOsborne2015.jpg
By HM Treasury [OGL (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/1/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Janet Yellen:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Janet_Yellen_official_Federal_Reserve_portrait.jpg
By United States Federal Reserve [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Turkish President Erdogan:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan_June_2015.jpg
Kremlin.ru [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

CNN Money: State Street: Why we commissioned Wall St. 'Fearless Girl'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YZ7nh9ZiS0

New 2017 London Taxi: more details of cleaner TX5 hybrid revealed
http://archive.is/fmn1R

Why are black cabs being tested in the Arctic Circle?
http://archive.is/OH94U#selection-1117.0-1117.53

RAF puts stop to women wearing skirts on parade
http://archive.is/AbO2O

France's Fillon wins party backing after Juppe rules out election bid
http://archive.is/DBz60

MPs debate sexist workplace dress codes following petition
http://archive.is/xRHUL

Donald Trump signs new travel ban executive order targeting six Muslim-majority countries
http://archive.is/H3bK2

Donald Trump travel ban: Hawaii becomes first US state to take President's new executive order to court
http://archive.is/WErUK

REBEL LORDS Theresa May handed second defeat in House of Lords on the Brexit bill after peers vote to give Parliament final say on any EU deal
http://archive.is/0BjKB

French pres. hopeful Fillon faces fraud accusations for not declaring billionaire’s €50K loan
http://archive.is/Ic5tU

Why Nike’s ‘Pro Hijab’ Is More Than Just Politics
http://archive.is/R2fr8

Chris Selley: The Trudeau Liberals’ weirdness managed to get even weirder on International Women’s Day
http://archive.is/lFYDx

Budget 2017: Women's suffrage centenary gets £5m
http://archive.is/jyS83

Israel's Muezzin Bill seeks 'Judaisation of Jerusalem'
http://archive.is/LIKrM

Nicola Sturgeon: Autumn 2018 is 'common sense' time for second independence referendum
http://archive.is/8JT0C

George Osborne to make £650,000 working four days a month at Black Rock
http://archive.is/lHoyM

Britain could rejoin EU after Brexit, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says
http://archive.is/06eFH

Jeremy Corbyn 'absolutely fine' with second Scottish vote
http://archive.is/nUmAY

Turkey referendum: Clashes as Dutch expel minister
http://archive.is/kBVrq

Riots break out in Holland as Turkey warns it will respond to Dutch diplomatic snub in the "harshest way"
http://archive.is/ZevKj