Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia’s first democratically elected president, died aged 92. Mr. Essebsi took office in 2014, running the only democratic government to emerge from the Arab Spring. Under the constitution the speaker of parliament, Muhammad Ennaceur, will take over as interim president. He must be installed by a constitutional court that still has no judges.
The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across the Middle East in early 2011. But their purpose, relative success, and outcome remain hotly disputed in Arab countries, among foreign observers, and between world powers looking to cash in on the changing map of the Middle East.
阿拉伯之春是阿拉伯世界的一次革命浪潮。2010年发生在突尼斯的自焚事件是整个“阿拉伯之春”运动的导火索，埃及总统塞西表示，阿拉伯世界发生的“革命”导致100多万人死亡，并给基础设施造成近1万亿美元的损失，他表示“叙利亚、伊拉克、利比亚和也门等国发生的事件造成巨大损失。一些国际评估结果显示，基础设施损失达到9000亿美元，这些事件还造成超过140万人死亡，1500多万人沦为难民。” 在此前被认为是“阿拉伯之春”成功典范的突尼斯，年轻人的失业率约为35%。虽然突尼斯推翻了独裁、建立了民选政府，但从经济上看，该国GDP增长自2010年以来一直停滞不前，人均GDP甚至从每年4000美元下降到3600美元。
Muhammad Ennaceur, will take over as interim president.
议会议长穆罕默德·纳赛尔将担任临时总统
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South Korean officials said North Korea fired two missiles into the Sea of Japan, though they did not reach Japan’s territorial waters. The weapons are believed to be short-range, and fired from a mobile launcher. It is the North’s first missile test since before a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in June.
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, accused Boris Johnson of laying down “unacceptable” terms for talks on a new exit deal. Mr. Barnier wrote to 27 EU member states warning that Mr. Johnson had raised the risk of a no-deal Brexit, and urged them to stick to their principles. Mr. Johnson told parliament he would not accept the Irish backstop arrangement that Theresa May had negotiated as part of her exit deal.
欧盟负责英国脱欧事务的首席谈判员Michel Barnier
The “Irish backstop” is effectively an insurance policy in UK-EU Brexit negotiations. It’s meant to make sure that the Irish border remains open (as it is today) whatever the outcome of the UK and the EU’s future relationship negotiations. It would keep the UK very closely aligned to EU customs rules, with some regulatory differences between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
英国的“保障协议" /担保协议/ 缓冲方案
America’s Department of Justice announced it would resume executing prisoners on death row after a break of nearly two decades. William Barr, the attorney-general, ordered the executions of five prisoners. Since 2003 there has been an informal moratorium on executions of federal prisoners while the justice department reviewed the use of lethal injection. Nationally, the number of executions has fallen to 25 last year from 98 in 1999.
mora∙tor∙ium
• ~ (on sth) a temporary stopping of an activity, especially by official agreement 暂停,中止(尤指经官方同意的):
»The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling. 会议呼吁两年内暂停商业捕鲸活动。
Europe sweltered in a heatwave, with Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands reaching their highest ever recorded temperatures. In Paris, the mercury touched 42°C (108°F). Several rail companies advised passengers to avoid their trains and hundreds of pigs died in the Netherlands. Deadly heatwaves around the world will become more likely as a result of climate change.
Europe sweltered in a heatwave
the mercury touched 42°C
Deadly heatwaves
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