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   | | | | Politics this week Jul 29th 2010 From The Economist print edition Tens of thousands of files were leaked from the American armed forces to WikiLeaks, a website. They related to the conduct of the war in Afghanistan and sharpened a perception that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, the ISI, has been backing the Taliban in its fight against NATO and the government in Kabul. The Obama administration said it would punish those who leaked the material and declared that Americans “are in this region because of what happened on 9/11”. See article Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, said an investigation by Afghan intelligence agents had found that a rocket fired by NATO forces killed 52 civilians in a village last week. The American command acknowledged that its helicopters had been active nearby, but said a joint investigation had revealed no such evidence. The UN wants a third investigation. A passenger jet flying from Karachi crashed into hills near Islamabad’s airport, in Pakistan, killing all 152 people on board. Rain and fog had affected flying conditions.
Flooding in China has killed about 1,200 people this season, as the heaviest rains in more than a decade have inundated many provinces. A landslide crushed a village and dozens of people in the south-west on the same day that an overflowing river stranded 30,000 in a north-eastern town. The Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric project, has handled a flow equivalent to 90% of its maximum capacity. See article Two convicted murderers were executed in Japan, in the first use of the death penalty in the country in a year. The hangings were witnessed by the minister of justice, Keiko Chiba, who announced a review of the death penalty, a punishment which she opposes.
In Cambodia Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for having commanded the notorious S-21 prison under the Khmer Rouge regime. Almost every person jailed at S-21, more than 14,000 in all, was tortured and then killed. Duch is the first member of the Khmers Rouges to be convicted by a UN-backed tribunal. See article A federal judge struck down several parts of Arizona’s controversial immigration law the day before it was due to go into force. The majority of Americans support the law, which they feel is overdue; opponents say it will lead to racial profiling as police clamp down on Mexican migrants. An appeal is expected. See article Shirley Sherrod, a black official at the Agriculture Department, received an personal apology from Barack Obama after she was summarily dismissed for a speech caught on video in which she purportedly claimed to have refused aid to a white farmer. The clip originated from a conservative blog and left out the part where Ms Sherrod spoke about racial reconciliation. A panel in Congress announced plans to lay out its case against Charles Rangel, a legendary congressman who has represented Harlem for 40 years and used to head the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He is alleged to have violated ethics rules by, among other things, failing to pay taxes on income earned from his Caribbean villa. Mr Rangel’s lawyers are attempting to negotiate a settlement, rather than see their client go through a trial in Congress. State prosecutors in Mexico revealed that the killing of 17 people at a party this month was conducted by a group of prisoners, who were temporarily freed to carry out the attack and given weapons and vehicles by their jailers. The prisoners were acting as contract killers for a drug gang and are thought to have carried out two other killings earlier this year using the same weapons. Venezuela cut off diplomatic relations with Colombia after the government of the outgoing president, Álvaro Uribe, presented evidence at a special meeting of the Organisation of American States showing Colombian FARC guerrillas at camps in Venezuelan territory. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the organisation’s north African offshoot, said it had executed a French hostage taken in Niger in revenge for a failed rescue attempt by French and Mauritanian troops that killed six militants. Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, told a gathering of the African Union (AU) in Kampala that the Somali Islamist militant group, the Shabab, which claimed responsibility for bombs that killed some 80 civilians in the city earlier this month, must be swept “out of Africa” and that more African countries should send troops to help Somalia’s beleaguered government in Mogadishu. The AU is to send 2,000 more troops, mainly from Guinea and Djibouti. Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, stayed away from the AU meeting because Uganda is a signatory to the International Criminal Court, which has indicted him for genocide and war crimes, and would have been obliged to have him arrested. But other African leaders spoke up for Mr Bashir. European Union foreign ministers agreed on a more extensive set of economic sanctions against Iran than those passed by the United Nations Security Council in June. The package includes restrictions on Iran’s energy, banking and insurance sectors. In a sign that it has been taken aback by the scale of the sanctions, Iran offered to resume nuclear talks with the major powers and said it may suspend part of its nuclear-enrichment programme. During a two-day visit to Turkey, David Cameron used unusually strong language to lament his host’s stalled bid for European Union membership. Britain’s prime minister said he was “angry” that Turkey’s progress towards accession had been “frustrated”. Mr Cameron also sparked a diplomatic row with Pakistan when he said that it could not “look both ways” by supporting both coalition forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
With at least one eye on this autumn’s regional elections, Catalonia’s politicians voted to ban bullfighting from 2012. Some Spain-watchers said the decision had more to do with Catalan-nationalist posturing than with the rights of bulls. See article Twenty-one people were crushed to death and more than 500 injured at the Love Parade, a music festival in the western German city of Duisberg. Authorities blamed the organisers for failing to control the entrance points. See article 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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