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Politics this week
Apr 27th 2006
From The Economist print edition
The king of Nepal bowed to weeks of street protests and announced the
recall of parliament, suspended for the past four years. Maoist rebels
called a three-month ceasefire, while demanding elections to an
assembly that would draw up a new constitution. See article
EPA
Sri Lanka's armed forces launched heavy attacks against Tamil Tiger
rebels in the east of the country, following a suicide-bombing that
gravely injured the army's chief of staff and killed several of his
bodyguards. See article
The prime minister of the Solomon Islands was forced out of office, a
week after his election prompted riots that wrecked the country's capital,
Honiara. See article
Thailand's judges were due to meet, at the request of the king, to untangle the mess caused by
an election that the opposition boycotted and that has failed to produce a quorum for parliament.
China's president, Hu Jintao , completed a week-long tour of Africa, his second in three years,
showing the importance that China attaches to the continent as a source of oil and raw materials.
During the visit, he signed a deal with Nigeria for four oil-drilling licences, committing China to
invest $4 billion in infrastructure projects in the country.
Defender of the faith
George Bush picked Tony Snow , a broadcaster on the stridently conservative Fox News network,
as the White House's new press spokesman. Meanwhile, Mr Bush's job approval rating slipped to
another low: 32%, according to a poll for CNN. See article
Karl Rove gave testimony to a second grand jury investigating the Plame affair. The first grand
jury brought charges against “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, but prosecutors
left the door open on further indictments.
Mr Bush went to California, where he called on Congress to pass a bill giving official status to
illegal immigrants and said punitive measures being pushed by some congressmen were
“unrealistic”.
In New Orleans's primary election for mayor, Ray Nagin, the incumbent, received 38% of the
vote. He now faces Mitch Landrieu, Louisiana's lieutenant-governor, in a run-off on May 20th.
After months of bickering, Larry Silverstein agreed to a deal that reduces his role in the
development of the World Trade Centre site in New York . The developer will cede control of the
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pivotal Freedom Tower to the city's port authority after it is built.
An opening for trade
EPA
Panama announced a plan to double the capacity of the Panama Canal
to accommodate giant container-ships. The project, due to be completed
by 2014, is expected to cost $5.3 billion and will be paid for by toll
increases. The plan will probably be put to a national referendum this
year.
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, hailed Haiti 's peaceful
parliamentary elections as a crucial step on the road to stability.
President René Préval is expected to form a coalition government. See
article
Shadows of death
EPA
A series of events were held in Ukraine to mark the 20th anniversary of
the Chernobyl disaster, when a nuclear reactor blew up on April 26th
1986. President Viktor Yushchenko joined ceremonies in memory of
those who died, or still suffer, from radiation exposure. In neighbouring
Belarus , opposition groups used the occasion to renew protests against
the government of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Hungary's Socialist-led government was re-elected to office. The prime
minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, promised to deal with the country's
economic problems, but foreign investors remain fretful about huge
budget and current-account deficits. See article
Members of the European Parliament were outraged by claims that the city of Strasbourg was
overcharging them for rent for two of their buildings. Most MEPs would rather relocate entirely to
Brussels; only the determined opposition of the French government forces them to meet every
month in Strasbourg.
Rumblings over Russian gas exports to the European Union continued. Gazprom, Russia's
energy giant, denied that it had made threats to shift supplies to other customers even though
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, later appeared to repeat them. The Russians insist they should
be able to buy European energy companies even while rejecting demands for more liberalised
energy markets. See article
Inch by inch
In Iraq , Jawad al-Maliki, who took over as prime minister after Ibrahim al-Jaafari was at last
persuaded to step aside, said he hopes to form a government in about two weeks. See article
A deal between Ehud Olmert, the head of the Kadima party, and Amir Peretz, the head of Labour,
under which Mr Peretz is to be the new defence minister, opened the way for a new Israeli
government . See article
In the third terrorist attack in 18 months on Egypt 's Red Sea coast, three suicide-bombers
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