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[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	Politics this week
				June 14th 2001
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				Bush,s grand tour
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				George Bush arrived in Europe. First stop, Spain, on his way to NATO,s 
headquarters in Belgium, then to Gothenburg in Sweden to meet summiteering EU 
leaders, and on to Poland and Slovenia. Big issues: missile defence (&We,ll 
do it our way8) and global warming (more research needed, no resuscitation of 
Kyoto). Vladimir Putin, Russia,s president,will later meet Mr Bush in 
Slovenia.
				
				See article: George Bush's European tour 
				
				Ariel Sharon, with seeming reluctance, and Yasser Arafat, with real 
reluctance, accepted a Middle East ceasefire brokered by George Tenet, the 
CIA,s director. Israel said it would start to pull back its troops if the 
ceasefire held. But Mr Arafat has to sell it to a deeply suspicious 
Palestinian people.
				
				See article: A precarious Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire 
				
				Timothy McVeigh was executed in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Oklahoma City 
bomber went to his death without any real apology to his victims.
				
				See article: The end for McVeigh 
				
				Europe,s bigger problem
				
				Enlargement of the EU goes ahead anyway, claimed the European Commission, 
after Ireland,s voters rejected the Nice treaty, by 54% to 46%. I,ll ask them 
again, said Ireland,s prime minister, Bertie Ahern, wiping omelette off his 
face.
				
				See article: The EU's Irish headache 
				
				Masochists queued up to lead Britain,s Conservative Party, after yet another 
general- election trouncing and the resignation of its leader, William Hague. 
Tony Blair reshaped his cabinet. Out as foreign secretary went Robin Cook, to 
be replaced by Jack Straw, hitherto home secretary. Women now hold seven (of 
23) cabinet seats.
				
				See article: Blair shuffles the pack E+
				
				
				
				Bulgarians prepared to elect a new parliament on June 17th. Likely winner: 
their ex-King Simeon,s party.
				
				See article: Ex-King Simeon II looks likely to win power E+
				
				In Germany, media leaks revealed proposals from a national commission to 
allow more immigration for non-EU skilled workers. Fine by me, said the 
interior minister, Otto Schily. Not by us, said many voters. The Christian 
Democrats faced both ways.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Silvio Berlusconi took office as Italy,s prime minister. His number two: the 
post-fascist National Alliance,s Gianfranco Fini. A ministry (institutional 
reform and devolution) for the Northern League,s Umberto Bossi. Treasury 
minister: Giulio Tremonti, a former tax lawyer. Foreign affairs: Renato 
Ruggiero, once at the WTO. 
				
				See article: Italy,s new government E+
				
				Ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia said they were ready to &demilitarise8 
but only as part of a peace plan implemented by NATO. War in Macedonia, and 
NATO,s possible role there, was high on the agenda of the Brussels summit of 
western leaders.
				
				See article: Fear of civil war in Macedonia E+
				
				Africa,s past and present
				
				A Belgian court sentenced two Rwandan nuns to 12 and 15 years in prison. A 
university professor got 12 years and a former government minister 20. They 
were responsible for helping to murder 7,000 people as part of the genocide 
in Rwanda in 1994. Heavy fighting between the army and rebels was reported in 
the country,s north-west. 
				
				See article: Prosecuting war crimes 
				
				Berbers continued their protest against the Algerian government with a huge 
demonstration in Algiers.
				
				Religious rights
				
				In another battle linked to America,s separation of church and state, the 
Supreme Court decided to allow the opening of American schools to religious 
groups for after-hours meetings.
				
				A crowd of 4,000 coca farmers and labourers looted a town in Colombia, in a 
protest at a United States-backed campaign of aerial spraying of drug crops.
				
				See article: Colombia's drug war E+
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				At least 39 people were killed, and thousands evacuated from their homes, by 
landslides and flooding after days of heavy rain in Ecuador.
				
				Asian anxieties
				
				A Muslim gang holding hostages in Basilan, an island in the Philippines, said 
they had beheaded an American in retaliation for an army attack. 
				
				North Korea agreed to a South Korean plan to promote tourism between the two 
countries. The United States opened talks with the North on security matters.
				
				See article: Talking to North Korea E+
				
				At least 1,000 people have been executed in China so far this year as part of 
its &strike hard8 campaign against crime.
				
				
				
				
				
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