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[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09Politics this week
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=09=09=09=09Bush=01,s grand tour
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=09=09=09=09George Bush arrived in Europe. First stop, Spain, on his way to=
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leaders, and on to Poland and Slovenia. Big issues: missile defence (=01&We=
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=09=09=09=09Ariel Sharon, with seeming reluctance, and Yasser Arafat, with =
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reluctance, accepted a Middle East ceasefire brokered by George Tenet, the=
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CIA=01,s director. Israel said it would start to pull back its troops if th=
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ceasefire held. But Mr Arafat has to sell it to a deeply suspicious=20
Palestinian people.
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=09=09=09=09Timothy McVeigh was executed in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Oklah=
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bomber went to his death without any real apology to his victims.
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=09=09=09=09Europe=01,s bigger problem
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=09=09=09=09Enlargement of the EU goes ahead anyway, claimed the European C=
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after Ireland=01,s voters rejected the Nice treaty, by 54% to 46%. I=01,ll =
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general- election trouncing and the resignation of its leader, William Hagu=
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Tony Blair reshaped his cabinet. Out as foreign secretary went Robin Cook, =
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be replaced by Jack Straw, hitherto home secretary. Women now hold seven (o=
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=09=09=09=09See article: Blair shuffles the pack E+
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=09=09=09=09Bulgarians prepared to elect a new parliament on June 17th. Lik=
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interior minister, Otto Schily. Not by us, said many voters. The Christian=
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=09=09=09=09Silvio Berlusconi took office as Italy=01,s prime minister. His=
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post-fascist National Alliance=01,s Gianfranco Fini. A ministry (institutio=
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reform and devolution) for the Northern League=01,s Umberto Bossi. Treasury=
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minister: Giulio Tremonti, a former tax lawyer. Foreign affairs: Renato=20
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=09=09=09=09Africa=01,s past and present
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=09=09=09=09A Belgian court sentenced two Rwandan nuns to 12 and 15 years i=
n prison. A=20
university professor got 12 years and a former government minister 20. They=
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were responsible for helping to murder 7,000 people as part of the genocide=
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=09=09=09=09Religious rights
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=09=09=09=09A crowd of 4,000 coca farmers and labourers looted a town in Co=
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=09=09=09=09At least 39 people were killed, and thousands evacuated from th=
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landslides and flooding after days of heavy rain in Ecuador.
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=09=09=09=09Asian anxieties
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=09=09=09=09A Muslim gang holding hostages in Basilan, an island in the Phi=
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