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[2009.11.26] 經濟學人 The Economist - Politics this week 導讀
Politics this weekNov 26th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Barack Obama delighted environmentalists(環保團體) by deciding that he would, after all, attend the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen next month (he had already scheduled a trip to Oslo to pick up the Nobel peace prize). Mr Obama will offer provisional(暫定的) cuts to the United States’ emissions(排放) of an initial 17% from 2005 levels by 2020. Congress, which is stalled(拖延) on a similar proposal, would need to agree. China is sending Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, to Copenhagen, where he is expected to pledge(許諾) to reduce China’s “carbon intensity”.
A Republican attempt to stop the Democrats’ health-care bill from proceeding to the Senate floor was defeated. The Democratic leadership just managed to scrape(艱難地湊集) together the 60 senators needed to allow the measure to be debated, though a handful of conservative Democrats insisted they would vote against the bill after the debate if it still contained plans for a government-run insurance scheme.
On the case
On the eve of the anniversary of attacks in Mumbai in which more than 170 people died, seven people were charged in a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, for their alleged(宣稱) involvement, including the alleged mastermind(策劃者) of the attack, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. All pleaded(抗辯) not guilty. India has been pressing Pakistan to take action.
At least 57 people were murdered in a massacre(大屠殺) in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Those killed were on their way to file nomination(提名) papers for an election next May.
The government of Sri Lanka announced that Tamils interned(拘留) in camps in the north of the country since the end of the civil war in May would be free to leave from December 1st. Some 130,000 people remain in the camps.
In the worst coalmining(煤礦) accident in China in nearly two years, more than 100 people were killed in an explosion at a pit in Hegang in the northern province(省) of Heilongjiang.
The body of Teoh Beng Hock, an opposition activist(激進主義分子) in Malaysia, was exhumed(發掘) for an autopsy(屍體解剖) after a pathologist(病理學家) said there was an 80% chance he had been murdered. Mr Teoh was said to have killed himself by jumping from the offices of the Anti-Corruption(反貪腐) Commission(委員會), where he was being questioned.
Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, made a televised speech in an attempt to defuse(
摒除危機) a row(爭論) about the prosecution(起訴) of two senior members of the country’s anti-corruption commission. He said it would be better if charges were dropped.
There was some good news on AIDS. A UN report said the rate of new HIV infections is down by 17% compared with 2001, and the death rate from the disease has dropped by 10% over the past five years. The ubiquity(無所不在) of antiviral drugs is one important reason for the improvement.
Rebuffed(抵制)
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said he would suspend building Jewish settlements on the West Bank for ten months in a bid(企圖) to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians. But his offer excluded(不包括) East Jerusalem, “natural growth” in existing settlements and buildings already under construction. Not good enough, said the Palestinians.
Not for the first time, it was reported that an agreement was near that would see the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, captured by the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas three years ago, in exchange for several hundred Palestinian prisoners.
A former vice-president of Iran, Muhammad-Ali Abtahi, the most senior reformist(改革者) to have been arrested after the disputed(爭議的) presidential election in June, was sentenced(宣判) to six years in prison but then released on bail(保釋).
King Abdullah of Jordan dissolved his country’s parliament(國會) halfway through its four- year term, calling for an early election. There has been tension between the government and the Islamist opposition.
Ill-feeling between Egypt and Algeria rose in the aftermath(事件餘波) of the Algerian football team’s victory in a qualification(資格取得) match for next year’s World Cup. Dozens of people were hurt in riots(暴亂) in Egypt, Algeria and Sudan, where the play-off was held.
Shades of grey
AP 
Most reactions to the choices for the European Union’s top jobs were negative, as few had ever heard of Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister who is to be first permanent(常任的) president of the European Council, or Catherine Ashton, a British commissioner who is to be EU foreign-policy supremo(最高主管). Some said their invisibility was the whole point.
Thousands of public-sector(國營單位) workers in Turkey walked out, demanding the right to strike, which is forbidden.
A breakthrough(突破性的) treaty(協定) was signed that aims to close fishing ports to ships involved in illegal fishing, bringing monitoring and enforcement(強制實施) to the dockside. The first 11 signatories(簽約國) to the deal, approved(被認可) by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s governing conference(會議), include Brazil, the European Union, Iceland, Indonesia, Norway and the United States.
New alliances
Reuters 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited South America. In Brazil he was hugged by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who called on Western nations to drop their threats of punishment over Iran’s nuclear programme but urged(催促) Iran to negotiate a “just and balanced” solution that met the West’s concerns. In both Brazil and Venezuela, where he met Hugo Chávez, there were protests(抗議) against his visit.
Canada’s government rejected allegations(申述) by one of its diplomats(外交官) that detainees(拘留的囚犯) handed over to Afghan(阿富汗人) authorities by Canadian forces in 2006-07 were probably all tortured, and that the government may have tried to cover this up.
Argentina’s Congress passed a law approving(贊成,同意) the forced extraction of DNA from people suspected of having been stolen as babies from female prisoners of the 1976-83 military dictatorship(獨裁政府), and given to army and police families.
Police in Peru claimed, to some scepticism(懷疑態度), to have arrested members of a gang that murdered dozens of people to drain their body fat and sell it for use in cosmetics.
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