May 7, 2005	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 27, 1426

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UK PM wins third term with reduced majority: Blair first Labour leader to win 3 polls in a row LONDON, May 6: Britain’s Tony Blair withstood anger over the Iraq war to secure a historic third straight victory on Friday — but a slashed majority in parliament could sink his...		Muslim vote decisive in denting Labour majority LONDON, May 6: The Iraq invasion inflicted serious damage on the Labour Party in Britain’s general election as Muslim voters ousted a loyal ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair in London...
Analysts see early exit for Blair LONDON, May 6: Tony Blair has only just walked back into No 10 Downing Street — but already Britons are asking when he will be out the door. Voters handed the...		BD’s threat to stranded Pakistanis DHAKA: The power division of the government of Bangladesh has decided to snap electricity supply to 70 camps for stranded Pakistanis in 13 districts if the food ministry fails to settle...
Fatah wins municipal elections RAMALLAH, May 6: President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction survived a challenge by Hamas in Palestinian local elections but the militant group opposed to peace with Israel showed it is an...		Qutab Minar, Taj tilting? NEW DELHI: Is the Qutab Minar tilting? While the government feels that there has been a “very negligible” tilt in one of the best architectural wonders, it has formed a committee...
Bush demotes general in Abu Ghraib case WASHINGTON, May 6: A one-star US Army Reserve general became the first high-level military officer punished in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal on Thursday when President George Bush demoted her...		Hindu priest shot dead in Nepal KATHMANDU, May 6: Suspected Maoists shot dead one of Nepal’s top Hindu priests on Friday as he chanted hymns before a sacred fire in what was believed to be the first...
Rebuke by father of dead soldier SEDGEFIELD, May 6: The father of a young British soldier killed in Iraq delivered a cutting rebuke to Tony Blair after standing against him in Thursday’s election and said he hoped...		NY police clueless about blast NEW YORK, May 6: New York Police officials said on Friday that surveillance tapes from Midtown show at least three people were in the area of the British Consulate at the...
US should practise what it preaches: Putin WASHINGTON, May 6: The United States should examine its own democratic shortcomings before criticizing Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin says in a CBS interview. “In Russia, the president is elected through...		Six Jordanians kidnapped in Iraq DUBAI, May 6: An armed group has kidnapped six Jordanian contractors for the US military in Iraq, the Al Jazeera said on Friday. The six men each held up their passport...
Foreign labourers find tough time in Gulf DUBAI: A recent rampage by unpaid workers at Bangladesh’s embassy in Kuwait illustrated the plight of foreign labourers in oil-rich Gulf States, where millions of them come in search of a...		US, UK guilty of collective denial: Prison abuse in Iraq LONDON: The British government and armed forces are responsible for the systematic abuse and torture, in some cases to death, of innocent Iraqi civilians. The US likewise. But in both countries,...
US move to isolate Russia could bring disaster LONDON: As the old joke has it, “nostalgia is not what it used to be”. Not so on Monday, when the world marks the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s stupendous...		Children bear the brunt of civil war in Nepal NEW DELHI: It was a combined fear of the Maoist rebels and the Royal Nepal Army that prompted Shiva Khadka, a fourth-grader from Sarnath village in southern Nepal’s Sarlahi district to...