The week that was

SOME 700 African migrants rushed the barriers in an attempt to cross Morocco's border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla. In a week of chaos several migrants were killed, some were dumped in the desert by Morocco and Spain returned others who had managed to climb the fence. The United States reported that a record 464 people had died trying to cross the border from Mexico in the year ending September, a 43 percentage increase on the previous year. THREE bomb blasts killed 19 people in a suicide bombing attack in Indonesia's tourist island of Bali; newspapers carried photographs of the severed heads of the bombers in the hope that they would be identified. AFTER protests from the United Nations and the United States, the government of Iraq withdrew a proposal to change the rules of the referendum on the country's constitution to make it more likely that it would be approved. Al-Qaeda posted an internet message to Iraq for Ramadan: “We say, O Islam, muster your strength, and we incite believers to fight the worshippers of the cross.” ALGERIANS voted by a large majority to endorse a Charter on Peace and Reconciliation intended to draw a line under the killings that took place in 1991 after the army cancelled an election the Islamists were about to win.