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[CCEBOOK.NET]The Economist July 26Th, 2008 www.EliteBook.net Search Welcome shiyi18 Economist.com My accountManage my newsletters Log out Requires subscription Saturday July 26th 2008 Site feedback Home Print Edition July 26th 2008 This week's print edition Unhappy America Previous print editions Subscribe Daily news analysis If America can learn from its Jul 19th 2008 Subscribe to the print edition problems, instead of blaming Opinion Jul 12th 2008 Or buy a Web subscription for All opinion others, it will come back Jul 5th 2008 full access online Leaders stronger: leader Jun 28th 2008 Jun 21st 2008 RSS feeds Letters to the Editor Receive this page by RSS feed Blogs More print editions and Columns covers » KAL's cartoons Correspondent's diary The world this week Economist debates Politics this week World politics Business this week All world politics KAL's cartoons Politics this week Business International United States Leaders Pharmaceuticals The Americas All together now Asia America Middle East and Africa Unhappy America Business in India Europe A lost connection America and the Middle East Britain More U-turns, please Yahoo! 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The European Union promised to step up its co-operation with Serbia. See article Ukraine invited Orthodox Christian leaders from around the world to celebrate the country’s conversion to Christianity. The event promised to be a make-or- break moment in relations between Orthodoxy’s rival prelates. Separately, Anglican leaders met in the hope of averting a global rift between liberals and conservatives, mainly over homosexuality. See article Bulgaria and Romania were criticised in European Commission reports for their inadequate efforts to combat corruption; Bulgaria was also punished by having the money it receives from the commission cut. The tone of the two published reports was softer than their first drafts. See article Spanish police arrested nine suspected members of ETA, the Basque separatist group. The arrests came soon after a series of bomb attacks along Spain’s northern coast, blamed on ETA terrorists. Italy’s parliament approved a controversial law giving four senior officials immunity from prosecution, including the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The law still has to be signed by the president; it is likely also to be challenged in the constitutional court. Little steps Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, shook hands with the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, at their first meeting in a decade. They signed an agreement to negotiate a political settlement within two weeks, mediated by South Africa and others. A breakthrough was hailed, but the timetable looks optimistic and the outcome unclear. See article Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, made a rare visit to the country’s Darfur region to signal his defiance of the International Criminal Court, whose chief prosecutor has accused him of orchestrating genocide there. The African Union and the Arab League supported Mr Bashir’s rejection of outside interference. In a change of American policy, a senior American diplomat joined representatives of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia in talks with Iran in Geneva without the Islamic Republic first agreeing to suspend its enrichment of uraniuwww.EliteBook.netm. The Iranian government paid a rare compliment to America by commending its diplomat for showing “respect”, but it still refused to freeze its enrichment programme in return for a freeze of economic sanctions imposed on Iran. Postcards from the edge Getty Images Barack Obama embarked on a fact-finding foreign-policy expedition. The Democratic presidential candidate’s itinerary took him to Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. He also went to Germany to give a big speech in Berlin and was due to visit France and Britain. He was accompanied by what seemed like half of America’s press corps, including three TV anchors, who deemed his tour a success. See article Mr Obama stood by his policy of wanting to set a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, which the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, welcomed. Earlier, Mr Maliki and George Bush agreed to a less specific “general time horizon” for American
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