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				Apr 26th 2001
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				New face for Japan
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Junichiro Koizumi became Japan,s prime minister after winning the clear 
support of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main partner in the ruling 
coalition. 
				
				See article: Japan,s new prime ministerE+
				
				Having annoyed the Chinese by agreeing to sell destroyers, submarines and 
much else to Taiwan, George Bush further upset them by stating that America 
had an obligation to do &whatever it took8 to help the island defend itself. 
				
				See article: Arms for TaiwanE+
				
				Joseph Estrada, the deposed president of the Philippines, was taken to jail 
pending his trial on corruption charges.
				
				See article: Estrada arrested in the PhilippinesE+
				
				India and Bangladesh were reported to be sending extra troops to their 
ill-defined border after the deaths of 19 Indian soldiers in a skirmish.
				
				Australia is considering cutting the quota of 12,000 asylum-seekers it takes 
each year because thousands are entering the country illegally.
				
				Scott Waddle, the captain of an American submarine that sunk a Japanese 
fishing boat with the loss of nine lives, was reprimanded for not following 
&proper procedures8. He left the navy with his rank and pension intact.
				
				Independence delay
				
				Parties wanting independence for Montenegro, the junior partner with Serbia 
in the Yugoslav federation, won a general election but failed to win the 
two-thirds of the seats in parliament needed to change the constitution. It 
is unclear if and when a referendum on independence will take place. 
				
				See article: More uncertainty in the Balkans
				
				The French government announced plans to oblige any employer laying off 1,000 
or more workers at a time to pay double the present amount of severance pay 
and offer six months of retraining.
				
				See article: Rewriting French labour lawE+
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				AP
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				In a bid to draw attention to Chechen rebels fighting for independence from 
Russia, a dozen gunmen, most of them Turks, took around 120 people, most of 
them foreign, hostage in a hotel in Istanbul, but later released them 
unharmed. The gunmen were put in prison.
				
				Ukraine,s parliament voted out the country,s pro-western reforming prime 
minister, Viktor Yushchenko.
				
				See article: Ukraine,s reformer goesE+
				
				Reform of the EU,s common agricultural policy was set back when a majority of 
EU farm ministers rejected a plan gradually to remove subsidies from 
sugarbeet growers.
				
				Plot thickens
				
				Internal quarrels within South Africa,s ruling party broke into the open. 
Steve Tshwete, the security minister, said that three of the most prominent 
ANC members outside the government, Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale and 
Mathews Phosa, were under police investigation regarding an alleged plot 
against President Thabo Mbeki.
				
				See article: South African scandalsE+
				
				At a conference on AIDS, attended by some 50 African heads of state, the UN,s 
secretary-general, Kofi Annan, called for a war chest of $7 billion-10 
billion a year over an extended period. More than 25m Africans live with HIV 
but current spending on the epidemic in poor countries is only $1 billion a 
year. 
				
				The heads of Nigeria,s army, navy and air force all retired amid speculation 
that President Olusegun Obasanjo might be trying to rid the armed forces of 
men loyal to the previous regime.
				
				Israel imposed a total blockade on the West Bank and Gaza before its 
independence celebrations on April 26th. Earlier violence brought the death 
of an Israeli doctor in a suicide bombing inside Israel and that of a 
12-year-old Palestinian at a funeral in Gaza. 
				
				See article: Israeli settlements and the intifada
				
				A feminist writer, Nawal el-Saadawi, risks being charged with apostasy in 
Egypt for calling for the abolition of the Islamic inheritance law, and for 
criticising the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. But a French court has thrown out 
a case brought by the presidents of Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Gabon against 
Fran?ois-Xavier Verschave for writing a book criticising their regimes. 
				
				At the summit
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				The leaders of 34 countries met at the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec 
city. All of them except Venezuela,s Hugo Chavez backed plans for a 
free-trade area of the Americas by 2005, and to exclude from future summits 
any country in which democracy had been overthrown. Some 25,000 opponents 
demonstrated against free trade. A few hundred battled police.
				
				See article: Free traders meet in QuebecE+
				
				Bob Kerrey, a former Senator and presidential candidate, admitted that he led 
a mission in the Vietnam war that killed at least 13 unarmed civilians.
				
				The United States suspended its drugs-surveillance flights in Latin America 
after a civilian aircraft was shot down by the Peruvian air force, killing an 
American missionary and her baby. An American spy plane had identified the 
aircraft as possibly carrying drugs, but American officials blamed Peru for 
the incident.
				
				The United States Supreme Court ruled that individuals could not sue states 
to prevent infringements of federal civil-rights regulations. The suit was 
prompted by Alabama,s English-only driving exam which contradicted federal 
discrimination laws.
				
				A former Ku Klux Klan member went on trial in Alabama charged with a 1963 
church bombing that killed four black girls. The bombing came only months 
after Governor George Wallace had proclaimed &segregation forever8 at his 
inauguration.
				
				Mexico,s Senate unanimously approved a constitutional bill granting autonomy 
to 10m Indians, in an important step towards peace talks with the Zapatist 
rebels.
				
				Argentina,s president sacked the central-bank governor, ostensibly over a 
money-laundering scandal. The new governor, Roque Maccarone, is close to 
Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister.
				
				See article: Cavallo,s crunchE+
				
				
				
				
				
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