May 8, 2005	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1426

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UK defence secy loses job in cabinet reshuffle LONDON, May 7: British Prime Minister Tony Blair reshuffled his cabinet on Friday, keeping his popular heir-apparent Gordon Brown as finance minister, as he pledged to govern “wisely and sensibly” after...		Sunni gets defence portfolio in Iraq BAGHDAD, May 7: Iraq’s leaders reached a deal on contested cabinet posts on Saturday to break months of deadlock, agreeing on a Sunni defence minister to combat guerillas. Since Iraq’s political...
11 killed in Myanmar blasts YANGON, May 7: Three bomb blasts rocked the capital of Myanmar on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding 162 others in an attack the government blamed on ethnic rebels and exiled...		India not keen on river body meeting: BD DHAKA, May 7: Bangladesh’s water resources minister on Saturday blamed India’s indifference for no meeting of the two countries’ Joint River Commission (JRC) in more than a year....
Bush terms Russian hold on E. Europe a great wrong RIGA, May 7: US President George Bush on Saturday denounced Soviet Cold War rule of eastern Europe as “one of the greatest wrongs of history” in a jab at Moscow two...		Putin says Red Army was ‘liberator’ MOSCOW, May 7: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ignored calls by Baltic nations for atonement for five decades of Soviet rule and defiantly hailed the Red Army as the liberator,...
N. Korea planning to test N-weapon? RIGA, May 7: The United States said on Saturday it had a “robust” ability to deter North Korea in the face of worries that the reclusive state might be planning to...		Anti-Syria leader returns to Lebanon BEIRUT, May 7: Lebanon’s most prominent anti-Syria Christian opposition leader returned to Beirut on Saturday, ending more than a decade in exile 11 days after the last Syrian soldier withdrew from...
UN official says Congress blocking work UNITED NATIONS, May 7: Saying that lives of some witnesses could be at stake, the head of the UN’s oil-for-food inquiry committee on Friday accused the US Congress of jeopardizing his...		Tagore’s stolen Nobel prize replaced KOLKATA, May 7: A Nobel Prize medal belonging to India’s only award winner for literature was replaced on Saturday, more than a year after the original was stolen from a university...
Soviet past still vivid in Latvia RIGA (Latvia ): The rusted helmets, pistols and knives tell part of the story. The worn boots, tattered prison clothes and slave labourer serial numbers fill out the picture. And then...		US leans more on Iraq troops to fight militants MUQDADIYA: When Major Mark Borowski plunged with Iraqi troops into a date palm grove notorious as an insurgent hideout, he did something a US officer would not have done a year...
UN nuclear chief pushes ‘sea change’ UNITED NATIONS: Sixty years after Hiroshima, Mohamed ElBaradei has big ideas for changing the way the world handles the atom. The sweeping overhaul he envisions — bringing uranium and plutonium technology...		Tensions rise on Zanzibar ahead of elections ZANZIBAR: Political tensions are rising sharply on Zanzibar ahead of elections likely to test to the limit Tanzania’s carefully groomed image of stability. The opposition on the semi-autonomous islands vows it...
Spy photos spot signs of DPRK nuclear test site WASHINGTON/BEIJING: American officials believe that new satellite photographs of North Korea show intensive preparations for a possible nuclear weapons test. The imagery is said to show tunnels being dug under a...		Nose plastic surgery fever grips Iranians TEHRAN: The surgical plaster encasing Goli Abadi’s nose was the only blemish on a face of otherwise radiant beauty. One of a growing number of Iranians to fall prey to the...