32 Headlines Later

Harpswell girls have two most-visited sites: Facebook and BBC News. So real or fake, everyone is constantly consuming headlines.

There are four in-depth presentations about selected news stories each week. I facilitate the two in English. Our goal is to understand the source article, do background research, analyze the event, and open a discussion about future strategy and bigger picture concerns.

We tackle tough questions. Last week, a student asked me why Trump likes Putin. What's Khmer for, "As soon as Robert Mueller answers my fan mail, I'll come back with an answer?"

Below is an ongoing list of all of the headlines I've worked through with student presenters:

- Pizza envy: Macron wants France's baguette on UNESCO world heritage list

- Philippines stops sending workers to Kuwait over abuse fears

- Death in anti-Kabila protests in DR Congo

- Hong Kong bans activist from by-election in what pro-democracy party calls 'payback'

- Syrian opposition missing from Sochi peace talks

- Design call for 'solar sentinal' mission

- Cambodian forest protectors slain after confronting loggers

- Ugandans suspended over refugee scam

- Banks in Argentina to close for 4 days amid strike

- Massive fraud at Indian state-owned bank linked to celebrity jeweler

- Aid organisations 'truly sorry' for sector's failings

- Thai activists in Pinocchio masks call junta leader 'liar'

- Africa 'set to miss UN development goal on malnutrition'

- Tiny Canada town defeats oil firm in court fight over drinking water

- ‘Smartphone tech most damaging to environment’

- International Women's Day: 'Millions' join Spain strike

- Mexican economy minister says Canada should be set to continue NAFTA without U.S.

- Goldman Sachs reveals gender pay gap

- Facebook boss apologizes in UK and US newspaper ads

- Egypt election: Sisi set to win second term as president

- Kim Jong Un's Newfound strength presents pitfalls for Trump

- National School Walkout: US students mark Columbine anniversary

- Frida Kahlo Barbie doll banned from shop shelves in Mexico

- Indigenous Brazilians rally to demand land rights protection

- UN calls for inquiry into deadly Nicaragua crackdown

- Kew Gardens: World's largest glasshouse reopens

- Ford showcases smart window that allows blind to 'feel' the view

- Trump defends U-turn on China's ZTE ahead of trade talks

- U.S. and South Korea to Discuss North’s ‘Bright Future’

- China agrees to import more goods and services from US

- Oil prices fall, Brent set for sixth week of gains

- Maori face tattoo: It is OK for a white woman to have one?

See if you can spot a pattern of which source the girls prefer. If you have any questions about Hong Kong's relationship with Beijing, or Argentina's stubbornly high inflation, I know enough to carry some really bad small talk.