30 April 2005	Saturday	20 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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Nationalists oppose Taiwan’s independence: Communists, KMT hold first meeting in 60 years BEIJING, April 29: Leaders from China’s Communist Party met Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang party on Friday for the first time in nearly 60 years, pledging to reject the island’s independence in a...		Pentagon bars CIA from holding ‘ghost’ detainees WASHINGTON, April 29: The CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered “ghost” detainees at US military prisons such as Iraq’s Abu Ghraib, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official said on...
Priest says he is ‘naive, not a spy’ VATICAN CITY, April 29: The Polish priest accused of spying on the late Pope John Paul II says he may have been “an idiot or naive, but not a spy”, and...		The last man who saw Hitler dead BERLIN, April 29: Rochus Misch still remembers the sight as if it were yesterday: 60 years ago on Saturday he looked through a doorway and saw Adolf Hitler had committed suicide....
Assad could be toppled: Israeli official JERUSALEM, April 29: Syrian President Bashar al Assad could be ousted from power as his government fractures under immense political pressure, the head of Israeli military intelligence said in an interview...		German centre in Togo destroyed LOME, April 29: A firebomb razed the German cultural institute in Togo’s capital Lome on Friday and troops turned up the heat on the opposition, shattering a brief calm after a...
Woman gets two rupees in tsunami aid NEW DELHI, April 29: An Indian woman paid just two rupees (four US cents) in compensation for damage to her coconut groves by tsunami waves has angrily returned the state aid,...		Putin pays first visit to Palestinian territory RAMALLAH, April 29: Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged aid and military equipment to the Palestinians to reform, boost security and rebuild the shattered economy as he wound up a historic Middle...
Newsman shot dead in Lanka COLOMBO, April 29: Dharamaretnam Sivaram, a leading Tamil columnist and editor of a widely-read website, was kidnapped and shot dead by unidentified men in Colombo on Thursday. Mr Sivaram’s bullet-riddled body...		PM says Vietnam wants to move on HANOI, April 29: Prime Minister Phan Van Khai declared in a speech Friday marking 30 years since the end of the Vietnam war that the country wanted to move on from...
N. Korea can fire missile at US: official WASHINGTON, April 29: North Korea is able to mount a nuclear warhead on missiles that could hit the United States, a senior US defense official said on Thursday in a startling...		Rains claim 34 lives in S. Arabia RIYADH, April 29: Heavy rains combined with hailstorm have killed 34 people in Saudi Arabia since Wednesday. The rains have been particularly severe in the southern and western parts of Saudi...
West will again ditch Chechens LONDON: For Ramzan Kadyrov, the first deputy prime minister in Chechnya’s pro-Moscow government, the hunt for the man behind last September’s murderous siege at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, is...		Labour can’t take Muslim vote for granted LONDON: There have been attempts in recent weeks by small groups of extremists to intimidate Muslims into staying at home next Thursday, arguing that it is somehow “unIslamic” to vote in...
Syria quits Lebanon but its troubles linger on DAMASCUS: Syria has evaded an immediate confrontation with the world community by ending its 29-year military presence in Lebanon, but must now adjust to a shrunken regional role and respond to...		Rocky road ahead for Iraq BAGHDAD: Iraq may have formed a government, after months of negotiations between rival factions, but the challenges that lie ahead are likely to far outweigh what has been achieved so far....