May 6, 2005	Friday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 26, 1426

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Bulgarian MPs vote for pullout from Iraq SOFIA, May 5: In a new setback to the United States and its dwindling band of allies in Iraq, Bulgaria’s outgoing parliament on Thursday voted to pull all Bulgarian troops from...		Fatah leads Hamas in Palestinian election RAMALLAH, May 5: President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah movement appeared to have beaten back a challenge by Hamas militants in Palestinian municipal elections on Thursday, an exit poll showed. A win...
Support in US for war dwindling: poll WASHINGTON, May 5: Support for the Iraq war among Americans has dropped to 41 per cent _ the lowest since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. According to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll...		Hundreds held in S.Arabia RIYADH, May 5: A major campaign against criminals is currently under way in various parts of Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of people, mainly Asians of Pakistani and Indian origins and Africans, have...
Iran link: US seeks Russian minister’s extradition MOSCOW, May 5: The United States is seeking the extradition of a former Russian atomic energy minister because he may have sensitive information on Moscow’s nuclear ties with Iran, Russia’s ex-security...		BD parties in talks to form joint opposition DHAKA, May 5: The Awami League has again initiated talks with smaller parties to forge a broad-based political alliance against the government of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led four-party ruling alliance....
Jackson’s plea dismissed SANTA MARIA, May 5: The judge in Michael Jackson’s trial on Thursday declined a defence motion to dismiss the charges in the child molestation case against the 46-year-old entertainer. Prosecutors rested...		Kremlin fires back in row over Baltics MOSCOW, May 5: The Kremlin on Thursday angrily rejected demands for an apology over the Soviet take-over of the Baltics 60 years ago, fuelling an East-West diplomatic row that threatens to...
UNSC hails Syrian withdrawal UNITED NATIONS, May 5: The UN Security Council on Wednesday welcomed the “significant progress” made towards implementing some of the provisions of Resolution 1559 that calls for withdrawing all foreign forces...		A new generation of Muslims is breaking with Labour LONDON: In the autumn of 2003, Muslim voters delivered their verdict on the invasion of Iraq by voting out Labour in the safe north-west London seat of Brent East. The by-election...
EU’s eastern frontier holds up well DOROHUSK (Poland): Polish border guard Colonel Andrzej Wojcik beams as he shows off Land Rovers, night vision cameras and bullet-proof vests neatly labelled with a European Union tag. His beefed-up, trained...		China recalls Japanese germ warfare experiments HARBIN (China): A grey sculpture depicts Japanese soldiers holding a Chinese man down as an army doctor injects him with what could be bubonic plague, cholera or anthrax virus. In another...
The final curtain for Mumbai’s dancing girls NEW DELHI: A ban on girls dancing in western Mumbai’s ‘dance bars’ to entice male patrons to freely part with their money, threatens to destroy about a million livelihoods and along...		Putin, Schroeder share WWII family tragedies BERLIN: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was moved to learn German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s father was killed by Soviet forces in World War Two and recalled how his mother nearly...
Arab-South American summit worries US BRASILIA: The first-ever summit between South American and Arab leaders in Brazil next week is intended to boost trade and investment, but has already prompted US and Israeli concern it will...		Abu Ghraib case: mistrial declared FORT HOOD (USA): A military judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the case of Lynndie England, a key figure in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal pictured holding a prisoner on...
US Marines land on Somali coast HARGEISA (Somalia): US Marines landed on Somalia’s coast on Thursday in one of their most visible hunts for militants in the country since they set up a Horn of Africa counter-terrorism...		Vietnamese PM to visit US in June CANBERRA: Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said on Thursday he would visit the United States at the end of June, the first such trip by a top leader of the...
India accused of hampering trade DHAKA: The mindset of Indian policymakers is a major stumbling block for trans-border power trade in the South Asian ‘grown quadrangle’ region that includes Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan, said an...		Meningitis kills 10 in Delhi NEW DELHI: A strain of bacterial meningitis has killed 10 people in the Indian capital and possibly infected 54, sending thousands rushing in a panic to hospitals to get themselves and...