3, April 2005 Sunday 23 Safar 1426 Shia bloc objects to Sunni candidate: Iraq’s speakership BAGHDAD, April 2: The dominant Shia bloc in Iraq’s new parliament warned on Saturday it would block a Sunni choice for the post of speaker because of his alleged links with... Survivor heard under rubble five days after Indonesian quake GUNUNG SITOLI (Indonesia), April 2: Rescuers said on Saturday they had spoken with a battered survivor still alive beneath the rubble five days after a massive earthquake in Indonesia collapsed a... India hails Koirala’s release NEW DELHI, April 2: India on Friday welcomed the release of a senior Nepali politician and hoped more steps would he taken soon by Kathmandu, a sign that the 13th Saarc... India, Japan launch drive forUN seats UNITED NATIONS, April 2: As Japan, Germany, India and Brazil formally kicked off their campaign on Thursday to secure permanent seats in an expanded UN Security Council, diplomats here expressed doubts... Intelligence network needs change: Bush WASHINGTON, April 2: President George Bush on Saturday acknowledged the need for basic changes in US intelligence services and urged Congress to confirm John Negroponte as director of National Intelligence. Commenting... BD spells out terms for pipeline deal DHAKA, April 2: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has decided not to sign any memorandum of understanding on the proposed Myanmar-Bangladesh-India gas pipeline until Dhaka sorts out three issues with Delhi. The... Pope Paul’s last hours: a chronology VATICAN CITY, April 2: Following is a chronology of the past hours since it emerged that Pope John Paul is sliding towards death: Thursday: The pope will not be hospitalized for... New plan for Lanka’s coastal areas COLOMBO, April 2: Following Monday’s tsunami scare which killed 11 people in a stampede that followed the evacuation, the government is considering asking institutions and families living in the coastal areas... Denmark seizes BD MP’s passport DHAKA, April 2: The Danish embassy in Dhaka has refused to grant visa to a Jamaat-i-Islami lawmaker, his wife and son, and seized their diplomatic passports for alleged tampering. The embassy... 3 Saudis executed RIYADH, April 2: Three Saudi nationals, who were reported to be part of a group that received training in Afghanistan, were executed in the northern Saudi town of Sakaka. The three... Abu Ghraib jail attacked At least 18 American soldiers and 12 prisoners were wounded when Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison came under guerilla attack on Saturday, the US military said. US forces “repelled an attack by... Terri Schiavo: the death and the howls THE death of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman kept alive for the last 15 years, should have been a deeply private affair. Seeing your child die must rank as the worst... Why Hitler film is dangerous LONDON: Most of the critiques of the Oliver Hirschbiegel’s new film about Hitler, Downfall, have missed the point. It is not the alleged humanizing of Hitler that is contentious, it is... New Labour: darkness of neo-liberalism LONDON: Across a diminished party the debate is always the same: is New Labour’s glass half-empty or half-full? Good deeds have undoubtedly been done, but the overwhelming sense is one of... Bush’s elbow, not ear News of Mr Wolfowitz’s nomination was received with shock and awe by the international community. Predictably, there has been an effort to put a consoling face on the fact of Mr... Jews need a post-Zionist leap of faith LONDON: Does the religious and historical attachment of so many Jews to the “land of Israel” justify the Zionist project? The idea of a Jewish homeland continues to pose two problems.... No Arabs, no goals AL QUDS: “No Arabs, No Goals,” crowed MP Ahmed Tibi as a second Arab-Israeli footballer smashed the ball into the back of the net, saving Israel’s World Cup prospects for a... Commission on intelligence whitewashes a war based on lies THE report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction was entirely predictable. It follows the same pattern as the whitewashes performed last...

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