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The Economist magazine: contents page | The Economist Search Log in: e-mail Password Economist.com Requires subscription Remember me Register Thursday March 19th 2009 Site feedback Home This week's print edition Daily news analysis Opinion World politics Special reports Print edition March 21st 2009 Business Previous print editions Subscribe Finance and economics How China sees the world Mar 14th 2009 Subscribe to the print edition Markets and data And how the world should see Mar 7th 2009 Or buy a Web subscription for Science and technology China: leader Feb 28th 2009 full access online Feb 21st 2009 Books and arts Feb 14th 2009 RSS feeds People More print editions and Receive this page by RSS feed Diversions covers » Audio and video The world this week The World In Research tools Politics this week Country briefings Business this week KAL's cartoon My account home Newsletters and alerts Leaders Print subscriptions Digital subscriptions The new world order How China sees the world Classifieds and jobs The pope in Africa The Economist Group Sex and sensibility EIU online store AIG and the president Economist shop Easy does it Advertisment Iran The problem of Persian pride Internet companies The end of the free lunch—again Business Letters Agriculture Green shoots On post-traumatic stress disorder, Barack Obama Industrial relations and Gordon Brown, Pakistan, helping the poor, the Kidnapped Amazon rainforest, pacemakers, recycling, emerging-market contagion Coca-Cola and China Hard to swallow Briefing Information technology Gathering clouds China and the West A time for muscle-flexing The internet Going AOL United States Defence companies In the line of fire Labour mobility The road not taken Technology Six years in the Valley California politics Young man in a hurry Face value Cheap, but not nasty Taking on Congress Obama's standing army Briefing Virginia Friends in high places General Electric Losing its magic touch Charities Taking from the givers Finance and economics Electricity Smart move American International Group Cranking up the outrage-o-meter Rounding up rattlesnakes The old enmity Buttonwood Swissie fit Statewatch: Texas Nowhere to hide American banks Sharing the pain Lexington The other Obama Financial regulation http://www.economist.com/printedition/[19.03.2009 18:25:01] The Economist magazine: contents page | The Economist Top watchdog The Americas House prices Caught in the downward current Mexico and the United States Don't keep on trucking German banking Finance on four wheels El Salvador's presidential election Left turn Microfinance Sub-par but not subprime Brazil's banks Spread bets Economics focus Money's muddled message Land rights in Peru Whose jungle is it? Science & Technology Chile, Cuba and Latin America Courting Castro Lighting A brilliant new approach Asia Dinosaurs Our feathered friends Political breakthrough in Pakistan Sharif wins a battle Parasitology The song does not remain the same Hong Kong and Macau No politics, please Religion, medicine and death But not yet, Lord A Chinese eco-city City of dreams Water on Mars Opium in the Golden Triangle Golden days Books & Arts Burmese migrant workers in Thailand Handel's anniversary Myanmar's overflow Georgian splendour An oil spill off Queensland The future of India The Sludge Coast The Bangalore enlightenment American economic intervention Middle East & Africa Cavalry to the rescue Iran's presidential choice A British minister's diaries It could make a big difference Reflections of a bit-part player Burkina Faso's president Constable's early life A canny chameleon Finding nothing ugly Dubai A little more decorum, please Obituary Madagascar Ali Bongo An odd way to change a government Economic and Financial Indicators Overview Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Natural disasters Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Markets Office rents Europe Ireland's economy The party is definitely over Unrest in France Paris in the spring The European Union and Bulgaria A new colonialism Russia's economy Poor little rich kids Italy's opposition New leader, old problems Charlemagne http://www.economist.com/printedition/[19.03.2009 18:25:01] The Economist magazine: contents page | The Economist Fingers in the dyke Britain The jobless toll A flood of misery Welfare reform Forward, not back Nuclear weapons And now for some light relief Financial regulation Bolting the stable door Hospital deaths Making them count University fees The only way is up Breaking up BAA Competition at last Bagehot The tiny minority Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist International Nuclear power The critical issue of safety Proliferation and nuclear power Fuel for thought Advertisement About sponsorship Jobs Business / Consumer Tenders Property Jobs Business / Consumer Independent Valuer Commercial UNDP Albania: On sale 92 ha estate Director of Programme Apply Now - Own the Intelligence: CEOs, Technical Assistance Operations world's leading Internet HM Treasury: | The CFOs, Financial Services for the Project Estate for sale in Consultancy. 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Advertising info Legal disclaimer Accessibility Privacy policy Terms & Conditions Help http://www.economist.com/printedition/[19.03.2009 18:25:01] Economist.com Politics this week Mar 19th 2009 From The Economist print edition The government in Pakistan defused a mounting political crisis by announcing the AFP reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice, a post from which he was sacked in 2007 by Pervez Musharraf, the president at the time. The issue had provoked huge protests. The reinstatement forestalled a procession to the capital, Islamabad, led by Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister. See article Pakistan’s government dismissed a report in the New York Times suggesting that America was thinking about broadening the scope of its unmanned air strikes in Pakistan from the semi-autonomous tribal areas to include the province of Baluchistan. According to the report, the strikes, in support of operations in Afghanistan, had driven Taliban fighters out of the tribal areas. The secretary-general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said the alliance would send up to 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to improve security during the presidential election in August. Karpal Singh, a leading opposition politician in Malaysia, was charged with sedition for an alleged insult directed at the sultan of Perak state. He said the charges were politically motivated. A day earlier, his son, also an opposition politician, was suspended from parliament for a year. Campaigning began for parliamentary elections due to be held in Indonesia on April 9th. Parties must win at least 25% of the votes or 20% of the seats in parliament to be allowed to field candidates for the presidential election in August. North Korean guards were reported to have detained two American journalists who were filming across the border from Chinese territory. Remuneration rumble A political row erupted over the payment of bonuses to executives of American International Group, a troubled insurer which has received $170 billion in taxpayers’ money. President Obama called on his treasury secretary to find a way of rescinding the payments, and Congress said it might try to tax them away. See article A Gallup poll showed that American support for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low, with 42% of respondents saying that sending American troops to the country had been a mistake. In the United States New Mexico abolished the death penalty after DNA evidence proved that innocent people had been executed in the past. It is the second state to do so since the Supreme Court restored state control over the punishment in 1976. A fiercer bear EPA Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, announced a rearmament plan, promising to spend $140 billion on weapons during the next three years. Some analysts doubt whether Russia can afford such expenditure with oil prices now about $50 a barrel. See http://www.economist.com/world/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=13346236[19.03.2009 18:27:19] Economist.com article A second one-day strike hit France, with millions of workers taking to the streets to demand an end to job and pay cuts. The government vowed to make no more concessions. See article France’s parliament supported President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to bring the country back into NATO’s military command, reversing a decision taken in 1966 by Charles de Gaulle. The Czech government withdrew treaties on American missile defence from parliament, fearing a possible defeat. Missile defences will be discussed by the American and Russian presidents when they meet in London at the G20 summit early next month. In the most publicised criminal case ever held in Austria, Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty to all charges relating to the imprisonment and rape of his daughter and the murder of one of the children he fathered by her. Hostile takeover After
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