Iraq's future

Big poll wins for Iraq PM's bloc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7872961.stm

Preliminary results from Iraq's provincial elections show big wins for the bloc headed by the prime minister, Nouri Maliki.

His coalition won victories in Baghdad and Basra, and emerged as the largest group across the mainly Shia provinces of southern Iraq.

The other major city, Mosul, saw a strong result for a Sunni faction which boycotted the last elections.
Saturday's ballot was the first major poll held in the country since 2005.

Surge in voting by Iraqi Sunnis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7863529.stm


技術移転へ専門家機関　日本、温暖化防止で国連に提案へ
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/keizai/20090206AT3S0501L05022009.html

Clinton外遊情報３つ

クリントン米国務長官、16日に来日
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/kaigai/20090206AT3S0501X05022009.html

Indonesia on first Clinton tour
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/20092661859651148.html

the close and growing partnership with Indonesia and prospectives on common interests in South-East Asia".

discuss "common approaches" to challenges like "the financial markets turmoil, humanitarian issues, security and climate change".

In his inauguration address on January 20, Barack Obama, the US president, vowed to seek a "new way forward" with Muslim majority countries, "based on mutual interest and respect," after eight years under what many view as controversial foreign policies formed under his predecessor, George Bush.

Obama himself has close personal ties to Indonesia, having spent several years at school in the country when his divorced mother remarried to an Indonesian.

対パキスタン、日本主催で支援会議
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20090202AT3S3100Z01022009.html

米国や欧州連合（ＥＵ）、中国を含む十数カ国・機関に呼びかけ、数十億ドル規模の支援策を閣僚級で協議する。


米穀物メジャーのバンゲ、上場来初の赤字　10―12月期
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/kaigai/20090206AT2M0600W06022009.html

穀物の国際価格が下落したうえ、経済の先行き不安から食費を切りつめる消費者が増えているという。赤字決算は01年にニューヨーク証券取引所に上場して以来、初めて。


グーグルとＩＢＭ、医療分野で協力　健康情報をネットで管理
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/kaigai/20090206AT2M0600G06022009.html