THE WORLD THIS WEEK
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THE WORLD THIS WEEK
lynk2510 Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:56 am
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
After his arrest in Serbia, RATKO MLADIC, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serbs, was flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes. He had spent 16 years on the run; prosecutors are trying to speed up the court proceedings. Mr Mladic's capture is expected to lead later this year to Serbia becoming a candidate to join the European Union.
GERMANY reversed course on nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, announcing that all of its nuclear-power stations will be phased out by 2022. Nuclear power supplies around a quarter of German electricity. The government hopes to fill the gap with renewable energy, but critics say that this will be hard to achieve and that more gas- or coal-fired power generation may mean Germany misses its target for cutting carbon emissions.
A deadly outbreak of E. COLI infections in northern Germany killed at least 17 people and affected 1,500 others. The Germans caused outrage by at first blaming cucumbers imported from Spain, but later admitted that they were wrong. The source of the outbreak remains unknown.
ITALY'S prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, suffered a setback in local elections when most of his party's candidates were defeated, even losing the stronghold of Milan. Mr Berlusconi's coalition partner, the Northern League, also did badly. But so did the main centre-left party:
the big winners were parties even further to the left.
As expected, America's House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly against raising the government's DEBT LIMIT without related concessions on spending cuts; 82 Democrats joined Republicans in voting no. Negotiations continue between the Wh
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After his arrest in Serbia, RATKO MLADIC, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serbs, was flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes. He had spent 16 years on the run; prosecutors are trying to speed up the court proceedings. Mr Mladic's capture is expected to lead later this year to Serbia becoming a candidate to join the European Union.
GERMANY reversed course on nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, announcing that all of its nuclear-power stations will be phased out by 2022. Nuclear power supplies around a quarter of German electricity. The government hopes to fill the gap with renewable energy, but critics say that this will be hard to achieve and that more gas- or coal-fired power generation may mean Germany misses its target for cutting carbon emissions.
A deadly outbreak of E. COLI infections in northern Germany killed at least 17 people and affected 1,500 others. The Germans caused outrage by at first blaming cucumbers imported from Spain, but later admitted that they were wrong. The source of the outbreak remains unknown.
ITALY'S prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, suffered a setback in local elections when most of his party's candidates were defeated, even losing the stronghold of Milan. Mr Berlusconi's coalition partner, the Northern League, also did badly. But so did the main centre-left party:
the big winners were parties even further to the left.
As expected, America's House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly against raising the government's DEBT LIMIT without related concessions on spending cuts; 82 Democrats joined Republicans in voting no. Negotiations continue between the Wh
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