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If you received this newsletter from a friend and you would like to have your own free subscription, please go to the Economist.com registration page  and fill out the  registration form.  [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] [IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	Politics this week July 12th 2001 From The Economist print edition    Portents  As General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and the Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, prepared to discuss peace for Kashmir, 15 people died in clashes in the Indian part of the disputed territory.  See article: It's good to talk  E+  Gary Condit, an American congressman, admitted having covered up his affair with a missing intern, Chandra Levy. The police later searched the Democrat's apartment-11 weeks after Miss Levy had disappeared.  See article: Secrets, lies and hubris    Squatters invaded land on the edge of Johannesburg. A court ordered them to leave and the South African government, anxious to differentiate itself from Zimbabwe, sent police to evict them.  See article: Space invaders  E+  Riots in Jamaica        AP        Violence erupted in Jamaica. The government called out the army after 25 people had been killed, most of them in gun battles between police and gangs with political links.  See article: Burning  E+  A row broke out in America after scientists announced that they had created human embryos in order to harvest stem cells. President George Bush has still not decided whether to let federal money go to stem-cell research.  Chile's appeal court ruled that General Augusto Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial on human-rights charges, bringing to an end a lengthy legal saga.  See article: He's demented  E+  Meta politics        Reuters        Albania's prime minister, Ilir Meta, and his Socialists were handsomely returned to power in a general election.  See article: On the road to normality  E+  In his native city of Split, huge flag-waving crowds welcomed Goran Ivanisevic, the wild-card Croatian winner of the men's singles at Wimbledon.  See article: Goran Ivanisevic    British and Irish leaders agonised together for days trying to save the crumbling peace process in Northern Ireland. The northern English city of Bradford saw Britain's worst race riots for years, between whites and (mainly British-born) Asians.  See article: Alone, together  E+  Magistrates investigating President Jacques Chirac's use of dubious funds questioned the French president's daughter Claude, an adviser on the media to her father.  See article: Gather round the trough    China on top  Hong Kong's legislature passed a law that would allow the Chinese government in Beijing to sack the territory's leader. Pro-democracy members of the legislature said the law eroded the autonomy of the former British colony.   A move to vote Sri Lanka's minority government out of office was thwarted when President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament until September 7th.  In a new surge of violence in Nepal, where the royal family was murdered in June, some 40 policemen were killed by Maoist gangs.   Japan turned down pleas by South Korea and China to correct "distortions" in school textbooks dealing with its Asian conquests. South Korea broke off its (very limited) military ties with Japan.   Africa's new union        Reuters        African heads of government gathered in Lusaka for the 37th and final meeting of the Organisation of African Unity. The group will be known in future as the African Union, with, it is said, a commission, central bank and parliament. Amara Essy, a former foreign minister of C?te d'Ivoire, was elected secretary-general.  In a breakthrough at the Burundi peace talks, chaired by Nelson Mandela, the country's 19 political parties were said to have agreed that Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, should remain president for the first 18 months of a new three-year transitional government. A Hutu politician would be vice-president, and their roles would be reversed half-way through the term. Once a ceasefire has been agreed, South Africa, Nigeria and others will send peacekeepers.   In the latest of a string of political killings in Zambia, Paul Tembo, a former ally of President Frederick Chiluba who had defected to an opposition party, was shot dead a few hours before he was due to testify to a corruption inquiry. He had been expected to implicate several ministers.  Demolition tactics  The United States joined the European Union in condemning Israel for demolishing 17 Palestinian houses in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza strip. Earlier, Israel had destroyed 14 houses under construction in a refugee camp in Jerusalem.  See article: Post-mortem on Black October    Israel, Hizbullah and the United Nations were involved in a row over a videotape taken at the scene of the abduction of three Israeli soldiers last year. The UN is prepared to show Israel the footage, but only on the condition that the faces of Hizbullah militants are obscured.   A leading Egyptian feminist, Nawal el-Saadawi, was accused of apostasy by a lawyer for allegedly saying the haj pilgrimage had pagan roots. A Cairo court is being asked to enforce her separation from her Muslim husband of 37 years. The case has been adjourned.              Science & Technology of the future     Visit Science & Technology, which features The Economist's prize-winning science articles.  Science & Technology also contains the contents of the latest Technology Quarterly (TQ) from The Economist.  This edition of TQ explores streaming video on the Internet, nanotechnology, gastrobots, gene sequencing and much more...  .   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