THIS WEEK WORLD

2013-12-29 00:00:00
Beijing Review 2013年33期

JAPAN

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on August 2. Aso refused to apologize for saying that Tokyo could learn from the Nazis’ swift overhaul of Germany’s constitution

INDIA

College students wearing traditional dress perform a dance in celebration of the Teej festival in Amritsar on August 3

PAKISTAN

A man drives an auto rickshaw through a flooded street following torrential rains in Karachi on August 3

ITALY

A tightrope walker performs in front of the Roman Colosseum on the night of August 3

HONDURAS

Soldiers stand guard outside a hospital in Tegucigalpa, where gang members wounded in a prison riot were admitted to receive medical assistance, on August 3

UNITED STATES

A woman walks by a banner hung on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. on August 2. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.4 percent in July