16 January 2005 Sunday 05 Zilhaj 1425 UN threatens Iran with aid suspension KABUL, Jan 15: The UN refugee agency on Saturday threatened to suspend aid for Afghan refugees in Iran unless Tehran stopped their forced repatriation. ... Simulated terror attack WASHINGTON, Jan 15: Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former French health minister Bernard Kouchner were among the dignitaries playing the role of president of their respective countries ... US military seeking 'quick exit' BANDA ACEH, Jan 15: The United States will end its military's Asian tsunami relief operations as soon as possible but not before the job is done, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Saturday. ... Babylon damaged by US troops: archaeologist LONDON, Jan 15: As the United States prepared to hand back the ancient ruins of Babylon to Iraqi authorities on Saturday, a leading British archaeologist alleged that Polish and US troops had caused "substantial damage" to a site ... 7 Palestinians killed; Abbas sworn in: Election officials quit GAZA CITY, Jan 15: Seven Palestinians were killed and 12 wounded by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, casting a dark cloud over the swearing in of Mahmoud Abbas as new Palestinian leader ... PA chief knows who carried out attack: Israel JERUSALEM, Jan 15: Mahmoud Abbas, who was sworn in on Saturday as president of the Palestinian Authority, knows who carried out a recent attack on a Gaza border crossing that killed six Israelis, a senior Israeli official said. ... UN officials satisfied with relief work UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15: Senior United Nations officials said on Friday relief operations in the tsunami-affected countries were going reasonably well, terming reports of child exploitation exaggerated ... When politics enters the realm of fantasy WASHINGTON: "Metrics'" is one of Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld's obsessions. In October 2003, he sent a memo to his deputies and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff: ... Ebadi refuses to appear in court TEHRAN, Jan 15: Iran's 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi refused to appear in court on Saturday, saying the summons had failed to state the charge against her. ... Titan pictures show frozen, orange world LOS ANGELES, Jan 15: Data sent back by the Huygens space probe from the Saturnian moon Titan show a frozen, orange world shrouded in a methane-rich haze with dark ice rocks dotting a riverbed-like surface the consistency of wet sand ... Zhao Ziyang in coma BEIJING, Jan 15: Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protesters, is in a coma in hospital after multiple strokes, sources close to the family said on Saturday. ... Saarc summit DHAKA, Jan 15: The government of Bangladesh has started fresh preparations for the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, now scheduled to be held in Dhaka on Feb 6 and 7. ... Saudi killed in clash near US base in Kuwait KUWAIT CITY, Jan 15: A suspected Saudi militant was killed on Saturday in a clash with Kuwaiti security forces near A US military base during a hunt for wanted extremists only days after a gunfight left two security officers dead. ... In defence of history: reconstruction of the front of reason LONDON: "The philosophers so far have only interpreted the world: the point is to change it." Marxist history has developed along parallel lines, corresponding to the two halves of Marx's famous thesis. ...

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