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[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09Politics this week
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=09=09=09=09Portents
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=09=09=09=09As General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and the Indian prime mi=
nister, Atal=20
Behari Vajpayee, prepared to discuss peace for Kashmir, 15 people died in=
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clashes in the Indian part of the disputed territory.
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=09=09=09=09See article: It's good to talk E+
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=09=09=09=09Gary Condit, an American congressman, admitted having covered u=
p his affair=20
with a missing intern, Chandra Levy. The police later searched the Democrat=
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apartment=01*11 weeks after Miss Levy had disappeared.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Secrets, lies and hubris=20
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=09=09=09=09Squatters invaded land on the edge of Johannesburg. A court ord=
ered them to=20
leave and the South African government, anxious to differentiate itself fro=
m=20
Zimbabwe, sent police to evict them.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Space invaders E+
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=09=09=09=09Riots in Jamaica
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=09=09=09=09Violence erupted in Jamaica. The government called out the army=
after 25=20
people had been killed, most of them in gun battles between police and gang=
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with political links.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Burning E+
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=09=09=09=09A row broke out in America after scientists announced that they=
had created=20
human embryos in order to harvest stem cells. President George Bush has sti=
ll=20
not decided whether to let federal money go to stem-cell research.
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=09=09=09=09Chile=01,s appeal court ruled that General Augusto Pinochet was=
mentally unfit=20
to stand trial on human-rights charges, bringing to an end a lengthy legal=
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=09=09=09=09See article: He's demented E+
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=09=09=09=09Meta politics
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=09=09=09=09Albania=01,s prime minister, Ilir Meta, and his Socialists were=
handsomely=20
returned to power in a general election.
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=09=09=09=09See article: On the road to normality E+
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=09=09=09=09In his native city of Split, huge flag-waving crowds welcomed G=
oran=20
Ivanisevic, the wild-card Croatian winner of the men=01,s singles at Wimble=
don.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Goran Ivanisevic=20
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=09=09=09=09British and Irish leaders agonised together for days trying to =
save the=20
crumbling peace process in Northern Ireland. The northern English city of=
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Bradford saw Britain=01,s worst race riots for years, between whites and (m=
ainly=20
British-born) Asians.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Alone, together E+
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=09=09=09=09Magistrates investigating President Jacques Chirac=01,s use of =
dubious funds=20
questioned the French president=01,s daughter Claude, an adviser on the med=
ia to=20
her father.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Gather round the trough=20
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=09=09=09=09China on top
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=09=09=09=09Hong Kong=01,s legislature passed a law that would allow the Ch=
inese government=20
in Beijing to sack the territory=01,s leader. Pro-democracy members of the=
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legislature said the law eroded the autonomy of the former British colony.=
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=09=09=09=09A move to vote Sri Lanka=01,s minority government out of office=
was thwarted=20
when President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament until September 7=
th.
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=09=09=09=09In a new surge of violence in Nepal, where the royal family was=
murdered in=20
June, some 40 policemen were killed by Maoist gangs.=20
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=09=09=09=09Japan turned down pleas by South Korea and China to correct =01=
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school textbooks dealing with its Asian conquests. South Korea broke off it=
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(very limited) military ties with Japan.=20
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=09=09=09=09Africa=01,s new union
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=09=09=09=09African heads of government gathered in Lusaka for the 37th and=
final meeting=20
of the Organisation of African Unity. The group will be known in future as=
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the African Union, with, it is said, a commission, central bank and=20
parliament. Amara Essy, a former foreign minister of C"te d=01,Ivoire, was=
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elected secretary-general.
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=09=09=09=09In a breakthrough at the Burundi peace talks, chaired by Nelson=
Mandela, the=20
country=01,s 19 political parties were said to have agreed that Pierre Buyo=
ya, a=20
Tutsi, should remain president for the first 18 months of a new three-year=
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transitional government. A Hutu politician would be vice-president, and the=
ir=20
roles would be reversed half-way through the term. Once a ceasefire has bee=
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agreed, South Africa, Nigeria and others will send peacekeepers.=20
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=09=09=09=09In the latest of a string of political killings in Zambia, Paul=
Tembo, a=20
former ally of President Frederick Chiluba who had defected to an oppositio=
n=20
party, was shot dead a few hours before he was due to testify to a corrupti=
on=20
inquiry. He had been expected to implicate several ministers.
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=09=09=09=09Demolition tactics
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=09=09=09=09The United States joined the European Union in condemning Israe=
l for=20
demolishing 17 Palestinian houses in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza strip.=
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Earlier, Israel had destroyed 14 houses under construction in a refugee cam=
p=20
in Jerusalem.
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=09=09=09=09See article: Post-mortem on Black October=20
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=09=09=09=09Israel, Hizbullah and the United Nations were involved in a row=
over a=20
videotape taken at the scene of the abduction of three Israeli soldiers las=
t=20
year. The UN is prepared to show Israel the footage, but only on the=20
condition that the faces of Hizbullah militants are obscured.=20
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=09=09=09=09A leading Egyptian feminist, Nawal el-Saadawi, was accused of a=
postasy by a=20
lawyer for allegedly saying the haj pilgrimage had pagan roots. A Cairo cou=
rt=20
is being asked to enforce her separation from her Muslim husband of 37 year=
s.=20
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