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   | | | | Politics this week Jun 3rd 2010 From The Economist print edition
Israel caused an international furore when its commandos shot dead nine protesters on a Turkish ship that was bound with humanitarian supplies for Gaza, which Israel has been blockading. The commandos boarded the ship before dawn in an effort to prevent it from reaching Gaza but opened fire when some of those on board tried to repel them with sticks and, according to the Israelis, knives. The Israelis impounded six ships in all and detained 600 campaigners with a view to deportation. Most governments deplored Israel’s actions but America was more hesitant, persuading the UN Security Council not to lay the blame exclusively on Israel. See article Three months after Iraq’s general election, its Supreme Court ratified the results, ruling that Iyad Allawi’s party, which was heavily backed by the Sunni minority, had won. But there was still no hint that a new coalition government would be formed soon. The official figure of 337 Iraqis killed in May was the highest this year. Two gay men sentenced to 14 years in jail in Malawi after celebrating their engagement were freed by a presidential pardon. But the minister for gender said their release did not mean they could continue their relationship. In an attempt to stop child marriages, Saudi Arabia began issuing wedding contracts in which the bride’s age must now be given. The move was prompted by cases of girls as young as eight being married off to much older men. The Obama administration came under increasing political pressure over the burgeoning oil slick off the Louisiana coast. BP’s “top kill” attempt to plug its gushing undersea pipeline was a failure; some estimated that the oil could pour out for weeks to come; and the Justice Department opened civil and criminal investigations into the blast that caused the disaster. See article A report by the UN warned that the use of targeted executions by the intelligence agencies of particularly Israel, Russia and the United States were “problematic” and blurred the boundaries of international law. Regarding the use of drones, employed increasingly by the CIA to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan, including a senior al-Qaeda leader recently, the report said that there “is a risk of developing a ‘PlayStation’ mentality to killing”. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s prime minister, resigned. He had recently reneged on a campaign promise to remove an American marine base from Okinawa. This cost his Democratic Party of Japan a coalition partner and saw Mr Hatoyama’s popularity plunge. Ichiro Ozawa, a tenacious kingpin of post-war Japan, resigned as the party’s secretary-general. See article Mr Hatoyama, Lee Myung-bak, South Korea’s president, and Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, met and discussed the South Korean warship that was sunk in March by North Korea, according to an international inquiry. But Mr Lee’s party fared badly in local elections. This was seen as a rebuke of his tough handling of the North over the Cheonan. Heavily armed men stormed two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore, detonating bombs and killing more than 90 Ahmadis, members of a persecuted Muslim sect. Other gunmen attacked a hospital three days later, apparently trying to free one of the mosques’ attackers. Police blamed the “Punjabi Taliban”.
A train crash in India was thought to have been caused by Maoist sabotage, though the group denied it. At least 148 people were killed, taking the toll from Maoist attacks over the past two months to more than 300. The government laid out what it called “a detailed road map” for peace talks with the rebels. It is also considering a controversial proposal to give the army a backup role in fighting the counter-insurgency, a task handled by national police forces. Thailand’s government survived a vote of no-confidence brought in response to the army’s clashes with red-shirt protesters in Bangkok. A curfew covering a third of the country’s provinces was lifted. Juan Manuel Santos won 47% of the vote in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Mr Santos, a former defence minister in the government of Álvaro Uribe, the popular outgoing president, seems poised for an easy win in a run-off on June 20th. See article At least 180 people were killed in Central America by Tropical Storm Agatha, mostly in Guatemala. Its heavy rains caused numerous landslides, and opened a 30 metre-deep sinkhole in the centre of Guatemala City. Responding to criticism of its human-rights policies, Cuba began moving some of its 200 political prisoners to jails closer to their homes. The government also promised to transfer ailing dissident inmates to hospitals, and to stop harassing the Ladies in White, a group of prisoners’ wives that holds weekly protests. David Laws, the chief secretary to the Treasury in Britain’s new coalition government, resigned when it emerged he had claimed second-home expenses for rent that he had paid his male partner, contrary to parliamentary rules. Mr Laws said that he had wanted to keep his sexuality secret. See article A taxi driver went on a gun rampage in Cumbria, in northern England, killing at least 12 people. It was Britain’s deadliest shooting spree since the Dunblane massacre in 1996. See article Germany’s president, Horst Köhler, unexpectedly resigned after he was criticised for claiming that German troop deployments abroad could be justified by economic interests. Although the German presidency is a largely ceremonial role, Mr Köhler’s exit adds to a growing list of headaches for Angela Merkel, the chancellor. See article The Czech Republic’s next government looked set to be composed of three centre-right parties following their surprisingly strong performance in an election. The new coalition is expected to instigate fiscal- tightening measures.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, looked decidedly uncomfortable during a televised exchange with Yuri Shevchuk, a rock musician. Mr Shevchuk lamented Russia’s lack of political liberty and its servile media. Two days later, around 200 opposition protesters were arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg. Customer service To change your subscription settings or to unsubscribe please click here, (you may need to log in) and select the newsletters you wish to unsubscribe from. As a registered user of The Economist online, you can sign up for additional newsletters or change your e-mail address by amending your details. If you received this newsletter from a friend and you would like to subscribe to The Economist online's wide range of newsletters, please go to the The Economist online registration page and fill out the registration form. This mail has been sent to: eleccion@yahoogroup
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