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    | | | | Politics this week May 27th 2010 From The Economist print edition
South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, announced punitive measures against North Korea in response to the North’s sinking of one of the South’s warships in March, in which 46 sailors were killed. Trade with the North is to be cut severely, sea lanes closed and propaganda will once again be blasted over the border. North Korea responded in kind and threatened to shoot out the loudspeakers. See article Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, visited both Beijing and Seoul. She warned that the situation between the two Koreas is “highly precarious” and tried to persuade China to rein in the North. She was received cordially, but publicly China kept mum. See article The government of Japan was expected to endorse a plan that will keep America’s marine base at Futenma, on the island of Okinawa, thus ending months of wrangling with the Americans, but breaking a pledge by Yukio Hatoyama, the prime minister, to move the base. See article Thailand’s criminal court approved a warrant for the arrest of Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister now living abroad, on charges related to terrorism. Mr Thaksin is accused of having aided and incited the recent street protests in Bangkok, the Thai capital, in which 88 people were killed. See article Omar Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for alleged war crimes in Darfur, was sworn in again as Sudan’s president after being declared the winner in the country’s first open election for 24 years. Iraqis suspected of links to al-Qaeda raided a Baghdad jewellery market, killed 15 people and made off with a stack of gold. Italy became the latest country in Europe to announce new fiscal austerity measures, with cuts of some €24 billion ($29 billion) over two years. See article Britain’s government also announced budget cuts worth £6.2 billion ($8.9 billion). See article And the German government talked of spending cuts and tax rises to reach its target of balancing the budget by 2015.
Britain’s new Conservative- The Christian Democrat premier of Hesse, Roland Koch, unexpectedly resigned. Mr Koch, a one-time rival of Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, had also been touted as a possible finance minister in Berlin. The European Commission published an analysis of the effects of moving towards a 30% cut (on 1990 levels) in carbon emissions by 2020, up from the 20% cut agreed earlier. Connie Hedegaard, the environment commissioner, made clear that she favoured this unilateral move, but European industry and several European governments are against. See article Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chose a new leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The CHP, founded by Ataturk in the 1920s, has been out of power for 15 years. See article With illegal immigration firmly back on the political agenda, the Obama administration requested that 1,200 National Guard troops be sent to the border with Mexico, where they will work in a support capacity on intelligence and efforts to halt drug-trafficking. The administration also asked for an additional $500m for border protection. Preliminary data from the FBI suggested that violent crime in the United States decreased by 5.5% in 2009 compared with 2008; property crime was down by 4.9%. Big cities recorded some of the biggest declines in violent crime; in New York it fell by 4%, in Los Angeles by 15%, and in Phoenix and Tucson by more than 16%. Barack Obama began the search for a new director of national intelligence after Dennis Blair announced his resignation. Mr Blair’s 16-month tenure was characterised by in-fighting with the CIA. Critics maintain that the task of overseeing America’s intelligence community has never been clearly defined since the creation of the office of DNI in 2005. See article The White House said it had reached a compromise with the Pentagon on overturning the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy to permit gays to serve openly in the armed services, by allowing Congress a vote on repeal before the conclusion of a review in December on how to implement the change. But in a letter to John McCain, the chiefs of the air force, army, marines and navy said they opposed the compromise and would rather wait to hear the views of men and women in the forces.
Soldiers and police in Jamaica stormed the neighbourhood in Kingston, the capital, where Christopher “Dudus” Coke, an alleged gang leader and drug-trafficker, was thought to be hiding. At least 47 people died in the ensuing fighting. The government recently approved Mr Coke’s extradition to the United States. See article Sebastián Piñera delivered his first state-of-the- A judge in Peru ordered that Lori Berenson, an American convicted of collaborating with a terrorist group, be released from jail. She has been imprisoned for over 14 years, and was scheduled to be freed in 2015. The government of Mexico called off its search for Diego Fernández de Cevallos, a conservative politician who was abducted on May 14th, at the request of his family. They are believed to be negotiating with his kidnappers for his release. Federal authorities in Mexico arrested Gregorio Sánchez, a candidate for governor in the state of Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula, on charges of drug-trafficking, money- laundering and links to organised crime. Supporters of Mr Sánchez, who stepped down as mayor of Cancún to run for governor, protested and said the government had brought the charges now to maximise political advantage at state elections in July. 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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