June 16, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1426

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Rumsfeld rejects calls for closing Cuba jail WASHINGTON, June 15: US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has rejected calls to close the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, arguing that intelligence gleaned from suspected terrorists held there...		Palestinians say Israelis ready to hand over Jenin GAZA, June 15: Israel has agreed in principle to hand control of the West Bank town of Jenin to the Palestinians to help them secure the region after Israel evacuates nearby...
Kashmiris await leaders’ return from Pakistan SRINAGAR: Moderate Kashmiri leaders’ supporters in occupied Kashmir were keenly awaiting the return of their leaders on Thursday from a historic trip to Pakistan for talks about the region’s future. The...		Indian panchayat delivers mind-boggling verdict LUCKNOW: In a bizarre order, a community panchayat in Muzaffarnagar district has ordered a young married woman to become the “mother” of her own husband by living as a wife with...
Villagers fall victim to caste war KANNAUJ: Suresh Chandra Pandey’s mutilated body was discovered more than a year ago, less than half a mile from his mud and stone house in the sleepy village of Nunnar, some...		West flouting rules with Nepal arms sales: AI LONDON: Western governments are flouting their own rules and contributing to grave human rights abuses by selling arms and weapons systems to crisis-torn Nepal, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday....
Sharon urged to hold early elections JERUSALEM, June 15: Rightists opposed to Israel’s Gaza withdrawal plan urged Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday to hold early elections, a day after stinging him with parliamentary defeats on a...		Earthquake sparks tsunami fears in US SAN FRANCISCO, June 15: A major earthquake off the coast of northern California briefly sparked fears of a tsunami on Tuesday night, but officials quickly canceled a warning as the danger...
Court rejects Pataudi’s bail plea CHANDIGARH: Former Indian cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was on Tuesday refused interim bail in a poaching case registered against him and seven others in Haryana. Hearing the petition seeking pre-arrest...		Split looms, but Lankan govt to limp on for now COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government was just hours away on Wednesday from a defection by its Marxist ally that would reduce it to a hamstrung minority in parliament, but the coalition was...
Rising sea eats up half of BD’s island: study DHAKA: River currents strengthened by rising sea levels have devoured half of Bangladesh’s biggest island in 40 years, leaving half a million people homeless, researchers said on Wednesday. From a size...		Tehran processed plutonium in ’98: IAEA’s claim VIENNA, June 15: Iran has admitted to processing plutonium, a potential material for atomic bombs, more recently than it originally reported, according to the draft of a report to be made...
Iraq is not safer today, says Rumsfeld LONDON, June 15: Iraq is ‘statistically’ no safer today than it was after Saddam Hussein was overthrown, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday. Asked on BBC television whether Iraq...		Fixed-mobile phone unveiled LONDON, June 15: BT Group Plc has unveiled a pioneering, low-cost cell phone that switches between fixed and mobile networks as the British company steps up efforts to stem a tide...
Rafsanjani faces tough fight in Iran election TEHRAN, June 15: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who wants better ties with the West, remained favourite for president on the last day of campaigning on Wednesday, but was far from sure of...		11 killed in Chile tremor IQUIQUE (Chile), June 15: Boulders littered city streets and highways in northern Chile on Tuesday after a 7.9-magnitude quake caused landslides and wrecked homes, killing at least 11 people and injuring...