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				June 21st 2001
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				Arms race revisited?
				
				Fresh from meeting George Bush and being told that the United States would 
build its national missile defence scheme whether Russia liked it or not, 
President Vladimir Putin said that, if so, his country would increase its 
nuclear power &many times over8 by putting multiple warheads on its missiles.
				
				See article: Doing the normal thing E+
				
				A former foreign minister of France, Roland Dumas, found guilty of corruption 
in the Elf affair in President Fran?ois Mitterrand,s day, claimed two of 
today,s ministers, including Hubert V,drine, the foreign minister, had known 
full well what was going on.
				
				The patchy truce between Israel and the Palestinians continued, though both 
sides blamed the other for not sticking to the bargain. Colin Powell, America,
s secretary of state, will be returning to the region. Israel reacted angrily 
to a BBC documentary about the possibility that Ariel Sharon, Israel,s prime 
minister, might be charged with war crimes for his indirect responsibility 
for the massacre of Palestinian refugees in 1982.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				AP
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				After riots at the European Union,s summit and meeting with George Bush in 
Sweden, the Italian city of Genoa prepared gloomily to hold a G8 summit in 
July. Try a ship instead, suggested some.
				
				See article: More tomatoes, please E+
				
				Collateral damage
				
				Iraq claimed that 23 people had been killed when American and British 
aircraft patrolling Iraq,s northern no-fly zone bombed land near Mosul that 
was used as a football pitch. The Americans and the British deny the 
incident. 
				
				Police shot dead 13 people in India when a mob set fire to the state assembly 
building in Imphal, the capital of Manipur. The rioters were protesting 
against the Delhi government,s truce with Naga separatists in the state.
				
				Frustrating the Algerian regime,s divide-and-rule tactics, protests that 
started in the Berber-speaking region spread to other areas.
				
				See article: The swelling anger of Algerians E+
				
				A bomb in an office of Bangladesh,s ruling Awami League killed 22 people. It 
was the biggest of a series of blasts that have killed about 100 people in 
the past two years. The opposition Bangladesh National Party denied 
involvement in the attack.
				
				Patients are a virtue
				
				The United States Senate plunged into a dispute over a patients, bill of 
rights. Arguing that it would raise health-care costs, Republicans delayed 
action on the bill. The Democrats say they will keep the Senate in session 
beyond its July 4th recess to pass it.
				
				See article: Hillary, you won the war E+
				
				NATO said that, if there were a peace deal in Macedonia, it would send up to 
5,000 troops empowered, among other things, to collect weapons surrendered by 
ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
				
				An appeal court in California upheld a homeless man,s 25-year prison sentence 
for stealing four biscuits. The man, jailed under California,s &three strikes 
and you,re out8 policy, was said by the court to be a career criminal.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				Reuters
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				Prosecutors agreed to charge Spain,s foreign minister, Josep Pique, over 
alleged frauds in a sale to Elf by Ercros, a Spanish firm of which he was 
once a director. The attorney-general can overturn the decision.
				
				Eight days after dispatching Timothy McVeigh, the United States carried out 
its second federal execution. Unlike McVeigh, Juan Raul Garza, a drug 
trafficker and murderer, had apologised for his crimes.
				
				The United States Justice Department said it would try to settle a 
long-running civil lawsuit against the tobacco industry that was filed in 
1999 in an attempt to recover billions of dollars spent on tobacco-related 
illnesses.
				
				Popular king
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				Reuters
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				In Bulgaria,s general election, a movement headed by ex-King Simeon II won 
half of the 240 seats in parliament. An ethnic-Turkish party said it was 
ready to join a coalition. It is unclear whether Simeon will become prime 
minister, seek the presidency in the autumn or call the shots from behind the 
scenes.
				
				See article: Is democracy working? E+
				
				After Tony Blair,s post-electoral reshaping of Britain,s administration, his 
chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister), Gordon Brown, announced new 
measures to bash cartels, encourage entrepreneurs and speed up land-use 
planning decisions. No, the relevant ministries have not been abolished.
				
				See article: The man who would make you rich E+
				
				A vote of no confidence ended the long Christian Democrat domination of 
Berlin,s city government. A Social Democrat-Green coalition will run Berlin 
until a fresh election is held, probably in September.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				AP
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power from Pakistan,s elected government 
in October 1999, had himself sworn in as president. One motive, it was 
thought, was to give him additional stature for his meeting with the Indian 
prime minister on July 14th.
				
				See article: Prez Pervez E+
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				World business on trial.
				
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latest in the mobile-phone industry, E-strategy briefs from Merrill Lynch, 
Siemens, etc., the EU's workers' rights and much more. Also be sure to visit 
the Business this week section to stay informed on the week's key events. For 
concise global business reports click here. 
				
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