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   | | | | Politics this week Aug 5th 2010 From The Economist print edition
Floods in Pakistan killed an estimated 1,500 people and stranded, displaced or otherwise affected over 3m. The worst damage was in the country’s north-west, battered in recent years by war with the domestic Taliban, but other parts, such Punjab, were also hit. Farmland, livestock, roads, houses and supplies of food and clean water have been destroyed on a huge scale. The president, Asif Zardari, was criticised for persisting with a European trip; his government was scolded for doing too little to help the victims. See article The cycle of violence between protesters and security forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir worsened: 29 people were killed, most of them civilians shot by police, bringing the total count to 45 so far this summer. Kashmir’s chief minister, visiting Delhi, trod on Indian sensitivities by calling for “a political solution”. See article North Korea’s army pledged to deliver “strong physical retaliation” against “madcap naval exercises” that South Korea has conducted in the disputed waters off the peninsula’s west coast. The drills are the South’s response to the North’s torpedoing of a warship there in March. As Australia’s national election campaign entered its final two weeks, opinion polls showed a surge of support for the opposition conservative coalition. Labor’s Julia Gillard, who replaced Kevin Rudd as prime minister only six weeks ago, seems to have lost the ten-point lead she had when she called the election. See article Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered asylum to Sakineh Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Tehran rejected the proposal from its ally, saying that Lula was “emotional” and did not know all the facts of the case. Meanwhile a warrant was issued for the arrest of Ms Ashtiani’s lawyer, who then fled to Turkey and applied for asylum. See article Mexican security forces shot dead Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a top lieutenant in the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organisation. It is the first time that the government has killed a high-ranking member of the country’s biggest drug gang. Raúl Castro, Cuba’s president, announced that the government would remove some limits on licences for small businesses, and would allow them to hire employees. However, he ruled out broader changes to Cuba’s centrally-planned socialist economy.
Naomi Campbell, a model, testified at a war-crimes trial in The Hague over allegations that Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia, had given her a diamond in 1997. The prosecution said she could prove that Mr Taylor passed on diamonds from war-torn Sierra Leone. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was reported to have survived a grenade attack on his convoy in the town of Hamedan. Apparently unhurt, he went on to address a rally in a football stadium. The government denied he was attacked, saying that a firecracker had exploded near his motorcade. South Africa’s former head of police, Jackie Selebi, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for taking bribes. He is the most senior official to have been convicted for corruption since the African National Congress was first elected in 1994. Preliminary results of a referendum peacefully held on August 4th suggested that Kenyans strongly endorsed a new constitution that would entrench a presidential system, but with more checks and balances than before. Barack Obama used a speech to veterans to confirm that America will end combat operations in Iraq on August 31st, “as promised and on schedule”. Around 50,000 troops will stay to train Iraqi security forces. Meanwhile, America disputed the number killed in attacks in July: the Americans say 222 people died while the Iraqis insist it was 535, which would make it the worst month for deadly violence in more than two years. See article A federal judge has overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban and ruled that gay couples have the right to marry under the United States constitution. The judge said that the ban, passed by state voters in 2008, violated the constitutional rights of gays. An appeal is expected. See article Virginia’s attorney-general said that the state could proceed with its legal attempt to stop provisions of the health-care reform act from coming into force, the first ruling by a federal court addressing challenges to the legislation from a number of states. In the scandal about public-employees’ pay in the tiny Los Angeles suburb of Bell, California’s state controller said that their salaries needed to be more transparent. It recently emerged that the city manager of Bell (which has a population of fewer than 40,000) had an annual compensation package of nearly $800,000, and that council members were paid to attend meetings, some of which ran at the same time or for only a minute. The long-simmering tension between Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s prime minister, and Gianfranco Fini, the co-founder of his governing People of Freedom movement, erupted when Mr Berlusconi published a document accusing Mr Fini of creating a “party within a party”. Mr Fini responded by taking 33 deputies with him to form a new parliamentary group, thus depriving Mr Berlusconi of a majority. See article
Russia’s summer misery continued, as forest wildfires spread across large swathes of the country. At least 48 people have been killed. President Dmitry Medvedev cut short his summer holiday to deal with the crisis. The Netherlands looked set for its first minority government. Mark Rutte, leader of the liberal VVD, which won the June election, is expected to form a ruling coalition with the Christian Democrats. The parties will need the support of the Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, a controversial right-winger who has compared the Koran to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. See article Greece should receive a second tranche of bail-out funding worth €9 billion ($11.8 billion) next month after a broadly positive assessment by a team of officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. But the team warned that Greece’s attempts to boost revenues by clamping down on tax evasion were not meeting targets. 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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