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South African officials said part of their border with Zimbabwe was subsequently a “disaster area”. Zimbabwe’s government continued to hound human-rights and opposition campaigners, 18 of whom have gone missing since October. See article In a so-far-peaceful presidential election in Ghana the candidate of the ruling party, Nana Akufo-Addo, got just over 49% of the vote, while his rival, John Atta Mills of the main opposition party, got nearly 48%. A run-off will take place on December 28th. See article In South Africa a breakaway faction of the ruling African National Congress, facing its first test at the polls, won many seats in by-elections for local councils across the country. See article Israel’s outgoing prime minister, Ehud Olmert, described recent attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians in and around the West Bank city of Hebron as a “pogrom”, after Israeli security forces forcibly removed militant settlers from a disputed house in the city. See article So long, Dion Michael Ignatieff, a former writer, took over as leader of Canada’s opposition Liberals from Stéphane Dion. Mr Dion had hoped to oust Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government by forming a centre-left coalition; Mr Harper dodged that by securing a short suspension of Parliament. Mr Ignatieff is cooler towards the coalition plan. See article In a provincial election in Quebec, Jean Charest, the Liberal premier, won a majority and a third term, but the separatist Parti Québécois did better than predicted. Mexico’s Congress approved a bill to rationalise police powers, allowing undercover agents and wiretap evidence but also requiring officers to register all arrests more quickly. The government is trying to strengthen the police in the face of violence from drug gangs in which nearly 5,400 people have died this year. In Argentina, forensic anthropologists confirmed that more than 10,000 bone fragments found inside a former detention centre were human remains. At least 10,000 people disappeared at the hand of a military dictatorship in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of a “dirty war” against leftist guerrillas. Golden opportunities AP Federal prosecutors arrested the Democratic governor of Illinois for corruption. Rod Blagojevich was charged, among other things, with trying to “sell” the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama on his presidential win. The United States attorney leading the investigation stressed that Mr