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[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	Politics this week
				June 7th 2001
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				A Palestinian suicide-bomber killed 20 Israeli youngsters at a Tel Aviv 
discotheque. Israel held back from massive retaliation after Yasser Arafat 
committed his forces to an unconditional ceasefire. George Tenet, the CIA,s 
director, arrived to help promote this tentative pause in the violence, but a 
Hamas spokesman denied that there was a ceasefire. 
				
				See article: A fragile Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire [IMAGE]
				
				The king of Nepal and nine other members of the royal family were shot dead, 
apparently by the crown prince, Dipendra. He later died from self-inflicted 
wounds. Curfews were introduced in the capital, Katmandu, after riots by 
Nepalis confused by contradictory stories and demanding the truth about the 
killings.
				
				See article: After the palace massacre in Nepal 
				
				Makiko Tanaka, Japan,s outspoken foreign minister, embarrassed her government 
by expressing doubts about President George Bush,s missile-defence plans. 
				
				Voters decide
				
				Voters in Britain went to the polls in a general election, which Tony Blair,s 
Labour Party looked likely to win easily. Harder questions: would William 
Hague survive as leader of the opposition Tory party? And would Mr Blair call 
a referendum on the euro next year? 
				
				See article: Labour's second term 
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Alejandro Toledo, an economist of Andean Indian descent, was elected 
president of Peru, narrowly defeating Alan Garcia, a populist former 
president.
				
				See article: The tasks awaiting Alejandro Toledo [IMAGE]
				
				Ireland held a referendum on the European Union,s Nice treaty, with the 
once-confident Yes side still expecting victory but worried by a sudden rise 
in support for No in the opinion polls. 
				
				Silvio Berlusconi was formally invited by Italy,s president to form its new 
government.
				
				In the unrecognised but rather successful state of Somaliland, a huge 
majority voted in favour of independence from the rest of Somalia. 
				
				James Hahn, the city attorney, won a run-off to become the new mayor of Los 
Angeles, beating his fellow Democrat, Antonio Villaraigosa, who had hoped to 
be the city,s first Latino mayor since 1872.
				
				See article: A new mayor for Los Angeles 
				
				Haiti,s president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, agreed to hold new parliamentary 
elections. In return, the Organisation of American States said it would help 
Haiti obtain $500m of suspended aid.
				
				Democrats officially took control of the United States Senate for the first 
time in six years. The Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, promised to adopt a 
co-operative approach towards the Republican agenda.
				
				War and peace
				
				Fighting continued in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, 
after last week,s failed coup against President Ange-F,lix Patass,. 
				
				See article: The Central African Republic erupts 
				
				In Colombia, the FARC guerrillas and the government began an exchange of sick 
prisoners, the first practical result of more than two years of peace talks.
				
				See article: A modest peace deal in Colombia [IMAGE]
				
				Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a formal state 
of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the 
conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers 
north-west of Skopje, the capital.
				
				Visiting Europe, America,s defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, reassured NATO 
allies that no hasty reduction of American forces was planned in the Balkans. 
President Bush said that America would reopen talks with North Korea, broken 
off three months ago, to discuss missiles, nuclear concerns and conventional 
forces.
				
				See article: Difficult times in America's relations with Europe [IMAGE]
				
				A deal seemed near to overcoming Turkish objections to NATO co-operation with 
the European Union,s rapid-reaction force. 
				
				Nine of the 20 hostages held by Muslim rebels in the Philippines escaped 
after fighting between their Abu Sayyaf captors and Philippine troops.
				
				Chenjerai Hunzvi, the leader of Zimbabwe,s &war veterans8, died of malaria. 
Calling himself Hitler, he had led violent attacks on Robert Mugabe,s 
opponents and encouraged the occupation of white-owned farms. Mr Mugabe 
declared him a national hero.
				
				Legal matters
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				France,s prime minister, Lionel Jospin, admitted that he had belonged to a 
Trotskyite organisation*a fact he had previously denied.
				
				See article: France's prime minister has a past [IMAGE]
				
				President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia appealed to his allies in a 
Montenegrin party not to block a draft law that would allow ex-President 
Slobodan Milosevic to be extradited to The Hague for war crimes. 
				
				See article: Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic's fate [IMAGE]
				
				
				
				An American federal judge ruled that the execution to Timothy McVeigh, the 
convicted Oklahoma City bomber, would go ahead on June 11th. Lawyers for Mr 
McVeigh had argued that they needed more time to look at documents withheld 
by the FBI during the trial.
				
				
				
				
				
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