May 4, 2005	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1426

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IAEA seeks inclusion of Pakistan, India, Israel: N-disarmament talks UNITED NATIONS, May 3: The chief of UN nuclear watchdog on Monday urged the inclusion of Israel, India and Pakistan — the three nations who are not a party to Nuclear...		US pilot killed in F-18 crash BAGHDAD, May 3: Search teams have found the body of a US Marine pilot whose F-18 crashed in Iraq, but a second warplane is still missing, the US military said on...
Ulema plan to launch TV in Afghanistan KABUL, May 3: Afghan religious leaders on Tuesday unveiled plans to launch the country’s first Islamic television channel since the fall of the Taliban more than three years ago. A group...		Opposition boycotts Indian parliament NEW DELHI: India’s opposition vowed on Tuesday to keep up its boycott of parliament for a second week to press the government to dismiss maverick Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav over...
US soldiers were acting without rules: Italy: Report on official’s killing ROME, May 3: The government on Monday blamed the killing of a senior Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad on the “inexperience” of US troops acting under stress and without proper rules...		US can defend allies: Rice WASHINGTON, May 3: US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has warned North Korea that the United States can defend itself and its allies against any nuclear or missile threat. Talking with...
Governments hindering media’s work: IPI PARIS, May 3: Rights groups marked World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday with appeals for an end to violence, censorship and government interference after the number of journalists killed, injured and...		Blast was like end of the world: witness BACHGAH (Afghanistan), May 3: It was before dawn and farmer Ghulam Mohaiudin was starting work before the hot sun rose over northern Afghanistan’s Bachgah valley. Then there was a huge bang...
Myers terms Iraq mission stressful WASHINGTON, May 3: The top US military leader has warned that the stress on US forces of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has raised the risk it will take longer to...		Gen Aurora dies NEW DELHI, May 3: The Indian general known as the architect of the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation died here on...
These are Blair’s last days: Ex-MP’s assessment LONDON: When I first called the prime minister a liar on air over his repeatedly denied plans to invade Iraq — in the wake of the Texas meeting with George Bush...		In bed with the killers LONDON: It all seems a very long way away. But what is happening in an obscure island nation in the south Pacific has now become our business. A few weeks ago...
EU ponders over how to deal with neighbours BRUSSELS: Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia would be well advised not to apply for European Union membership now, because they would be rebuffed, the EU’s External Relations Commissioner said. Some of the...		Scientists create code to deter hackers SYDNEY: Australian scientists believe they have developed an unbreakable information code to stop hackers, using a diamond, a kitchen microwave oven and an optical fibre. Researchers at Melbourne University used the...
Biologically degradable cigarettes LONDON: Smoking may be increasingly difficult to mix with a successful social life, but those addicted could soon be given the chance to be just a bit virtuous — by going...		Osama’s ‘head on dry ice’ WASHINGTON: Spy chiefs in the United States ordered agents to deliver Osama bin Laden’s severed head in a box of dry ice and hoist heads of other Al Qaeda leaders on...