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A | BERLIN -- A prominent German leftist politician has launched plans to form a new party that some observers think could take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.Sahra Wagenknecht on Monday presented her “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance — for Reason and Fairness.” The aim is to formally launch the party in January, in time for European Parliament elections in June. Three state elections in Germany's formerly communist east will follow next fall.Wagenknecht offers a combination of left-wing economic policy, with high wages and generous benefits, and a restrictive approach to migration. She also questions some environmentalists' plans to combat climate change and opposes current sanctions against Russia, which was once Germany's leading gas supplier, and German arms supplies to Ukraine.Wagenknecht is launching her project at a time when center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz's quarrelsome three-party coalition is deeply unpopular. National polls show mainstream opposition conservatives leading and Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in second place with around 20% support.“Many people don't know any more what they should vote for, or vote for the right out of anger and desperation,” Wagenknecht said. Wagenknecht, 54, grew up in East Germany and joined the ruling communist party in 1989. She was a prominent figure on its successor’s hard-left wing and in the Left Party, which emerged in 2005 when eastern ex-communists merged with western leftists disgruntled with welfare-state cuts.She said that with the economic sanctions against Russia, "we have cut off ourselves off from cheap energy without there being viable alternatives." She accused Scholz’s government of abandoning “the important tradition of detente” and argued that “conflicts cannot be resolved militarily — that goes for Ukraine, that goes for the Middle East and it goes for many other parts of the world.”“We must also get away from a blind, haphazard eco-activism that makes people's life even more expensive but doesn't actually benefit the climate at all,” she said, adding that a more useful contribution would be developing new technologies for a climate-neutral future.Wagenknecht argued that Germany's education system is failing many young people and “unregulated immigration is intensifying the problems in schools.”There has been widespread speculation that those positions could appeal to voters who might otherwise choose the nationalist, anti-migration AfD — particularly in the less prosperous east, where Wagenknecht's most recent party, the Left Party, has gradually declined over the years and AfD is at its strongest.“This niche that is opening up — stressing social justice and at same time ... positioning herself in a more migration-skeptical way — has potential,” Benjamin Hoehne, a political scientist at the University of Muenster, told ARD television. "Of course we won't make common cause with AfD," Wagenknecht said Monday. “We are launching a new party so that all the people who are now thinking about voting for AfD or who have already done so — out of anger, out of desperation, but not because they are right-wing — have a serious address.”The new party's immediate political effect is to endanger the Left Party, which only just managed to stay in the German parliament in the 2021 national election. Wagenknecht was co-leader of the party’s parliamentary group from 2015 to 2019, but long-running internal tensions have grown into a deep rift. The Left Party’s leadership backs a generous approach to migrants and strong action against climate change.She left the party on Monday along with Amira Mohamed Ali, the co-leader of its parliamentary group and now the chair of Wagenknecht's alliance, and eight other lawmakers.。

B | 雨势太大导致淹水。（新明日报图）（新加坡讯）外甥女和友人到泰国普吉岛旅游，遇大雨滂沱导致水灾，人在马六甲拍片艺人陈丽贞在社媒限时动态连发三则求救简讯。

C | 人在马六甲拍摄新传媒重头剧《小娘惹之翡翠山》的陈丽贞，前天早上在社媒的限时动态连发三则求救帖文，表示普吉岛发生水灾，居民和旅客需要帮忙，她的外甥女也受到影响。文中她也公开了外甥女的住处地址和谷歌地图，地图显示在卡伦（Karon）一带。随后，陈丽贞又发动态表示，外甥女被迫爬到屋顶等救援，之后她再度发外甥女报平安的简讯。外甥女遇灾，陈丽贞心急不已。（新明日报图）根据普吉岛媒体《普吉新闻》（The Phuket News）前天的报道，普吉岛深夜下起大雨，雨量大导致该岛多处地区淹水，更引发山体滑坡。针对陈丽贞的求救帖文，《新明日报》记者前天联系上了陈丽贞。她称外甥女是在三天凌晨5时30分在家庭群聊中发求救的简讯，惊动了全家人起来帮忙。“我也因此被惊醒了，看到简讯，我即刻打电话找朋友，但都没有用，因为当时泰国的时间是凌晨4时30分，大家都还在睡梦中，我只好到IG帖文，寻求援助。”她说当下看到简讯后，她的心情忐忑不安：“她是我唯一的外甥女，我又不知道当地的情况，很是担心，唯一能做的是，为她祈祷。”从凌晨接到外甥女的求救简讯，到早上11时许，外甥女报平安，将近6个小时内，陈丽贞说自己是坐立难安。唯一慰藉的是，那段时间外甥女一直和家人保持联系，告诉他们最新的情况。记者原想采访陈丽贞的外甥女，由当事人来叙述，但陈丽贞婉拒地说：“她不是我们这行的人，比较内向。”尽管如此，陈丽贞向记者转述外甥女和朋友获救的经过，她说：“雨一直下到早上，雨势没有那么大，而且逐渐停了，就有人来救他们，然后当地的人即刻把他们送到医院。”水退后仍见满地狼藉。（新明日报图）陈丽贞说，外甥女的其中一个朋友因脚被割伤留医，她解释：“因为怕雨水脏，免得伤口发炎，就留医院吊点滴。