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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natalie Bennett

Welcome to the 29 October edition

There was not much question over what would lead this week's paper - the outstanding story of the week was clearly the Wikileaks Iraq war logs, on which the Guardian also has extensive multimedia reports online.

But I suspect a couple of other stories will also attract a great deal of attention. The first is about the 20-year-old undergraduate who's taken over as police chief in a small Mexican town where the drug cartels are running rampant. And the other comes from Latin America, where Peru has given landlocked Bolivia a port to call its own - so the landlocked navy, now sailing around a lake at 3,800 metre altitude, might finally get down to sea level.

Away from the news side, I suspect many will enjoy the story about the graffitti knitters - who could soon be brightening up a town near you. Who'd have thought there could be a "quiet political message" in "knit one purl one"?

There's also cultural education in this week's Letter From India, written by Weekly reader Rebecca Poston. She outlines the value of parks in Bangalore, and particularly how young couples, after arranged marriages, use them to get to know one another, away from the prying eyes of relatives.

And there's some interesting, varied thoughts on China this week in our letters to the editor. If you've got one published - and the competition is fierce - then you can easily share that fact with friends and family, now that this section is regularly online.

Quote of the week: "It is unjust that Bolivia has no sovereign outlet to the ocean." Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who signed a deal with his Bolivian counterpart giving htem land for a port.

Fact of the week: India separated from Africa some 160m years ago, and spent the next 100m years moving towards Asia at around 20cm a year. But the recent discovery of fossilised insects suggests an arc of islands connected it to Europe long before it crashed into the European continental plate.

Video of the week: Guardian Films asks how far up the chain of command in the US military the order to ignore torture went. The film also investigates the role of James Steele, a special advisor to General Petraeus, who worked with Iraq's Special Commando force in Samarra.

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