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<strong>The</strong> world this week <strong>The</strong> <strong>Economist</strong> October 1st 2016 7 Politics A record audience tuned in to the first presidential debate ofthe election campaign. Polling suggested that most voters thought Hillary Clinton put in a better performance than Donald Trump. He blamed the moderator and a defective microphone, and said he had held backbecause he “didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings”. Congress overrode a presidential veto by Barack Obama for the first time, voting overwhelmingly to reinstate a bill that allows Americans to sue foreign governments ifthey are found to have played a role in terrorist attacks. Mr Obama had vetoed the bill on the ground that it would open America to reciprocal lawsuits from foreign countries. <strong>The</strong> number of murders in America rose by10.8% last year, according to the FBI, the sharpest rise in decades. <strong>The</strong> murder rate rose to 4.9 for every100,000 people, the highest since 2009. Peace in our time <strong>The</strong> government ofColombia and the FARC guerrilla army signed an agreement to end their 52-year-long war. Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the FARC’s leader, known as Timochenko, used a pen fashioned from a bullet casing to sign the accord. Colombians are to vote on the peace deal in a referendum on October 2nd. Brazilian police arrested Antonio Palocci, a former finance minister and chiefof staffofthe former president, Dilma Rousseff, in connection with the corruption scandal centred on Petrobras, the statecontrolled oil giant. Mr Palocci’s lawyers say he did nothing wrong. Unrelenting Russian and Syrian air strikes continued in Aleppo, where rebel forces occupy the eastern part ofthe city. Most oftheir stronghold is now without water. No aid is getting in, and hospitals and bakeries are being targeted. Shimon Peres, a former president and prime minister of Israel, died at the age of93. He was the last of Israel’s founding fathers and the architect of its nuclear programme. Mr Peres shared the Nobel peace prize in 1994 for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. Around 15,000 Saudi women signed a petition to abolish laws barring them from marrying, travelling or working without permission from a male guardian. A jihadist who had pleaded guilty at the International Criminal Court to destroying ancient shrines in Mali was sentenced to nine years in prison. It was the first case of its kind to be heard at the ICC. <strong>The</strong> long arm of the law China criticised America’s decision to impose sanctions on a Chinese company dealing in industrial machinery. <strong>The</strong> Treasury banned American firms from doing business with Dandong Hongxiang because ofalleged links to North Korea’s nuclear programme. China had said it was investigating the links itself. It accused America ofattempting “long-arm jurisdiction”. Chinese fighters and bombers flew close to Japanese territory on their way to take part in an exercise in the western Pacific. <strong>The</strong>y traversed the Miyako Strait between Taiwan and the Japanese island of Okinawa. Japan said it was the first time that Chinese aircraft had used the route. It scrambled its own jets, but no violations ofJapan’s airspace were reported. India said it had carried out strikes against Pakistan-based militants on the border with the disputed state ofKashmir. Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the barrage. With tensions on the rise, India decided to boycott a regional summit in Pakistan, and also threatened to review watersharing agreements and trade arrangements with its neighbour. A court in Malaysia jailed an opposition politician, Tian Chua, for sedition. He had urged the public to protest against the government. Amnesty International cancelled a public briefing about torture in Thailand after the police said the speakers would face arrest. A Thai government committee ordered Yingluck Shinawatra, a former prime minister ousted in a military coup, to pay a fine of$1billion for negligence related to a subsidy scheme for rice farmers. Ms Yingluck said the fine was politically motivated. <strong>The</strong> evidence mounts A Dutch-led criminal investigation found that a Malaysian Airlines flight, MH17, was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 by a BUK anti-aircraft missile that had been brought in from Russia, and fired from territory held by Russian-backed separatist rebels. <strong>The</strong> investigators released telephone intercepts of Russian-speaking forces requesting the missiles to stop Ukrainian air-force attacks. Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, set December 4th as the date for a national referendum to approve constitutional changes simplifying the country’s Byzantine parliamentary system. Mr Renzi, a reformist centre-leftist, has staked his political future on the referendum’s success. Moody’s, a credit-rating agency, downgraded Turkey’s bonds to junkstatus. A government adviser compared the ratings decision to the failed coup attempt in July, and the prime minister declared it was “not impartial”. François Hollande, the president ofFrance, promised to demolish the migrant camp outside Calais known as “the Jungle”. Mr Hollande said that the agreement under which British border checks take place on the French side would stand, but vowed to press Britain for more aid for the refugees drawn by the tunnel. Jeremy Corbyn won re-election as leader ofBritain’s Labour Party, slightly increasing his share ofthe vote to 61.8%. <strong>The</strong> bulkofhis support came from members who joined after the general election in 2015. <strong>The</strong> result will not resolve the party’s deep divisions. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, promised to bring socialism backto the mainstream, which is unlikely to be popular with voters. Sam Allardyce resigned as the manager of England’s football team after a newspaper caught him on camera advising a fake Asian firm on how to circumvent Football Association rules. Several football agents were filmed making various claims about corruption, with one saying the problem was worse in England than in his native Italy. Another said one manager had taken more backhanders than Wimbledon. 1
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