June 17, 2005	Friday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1426

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US favours Japan for permanent SC seat WASHINGTON, June 16: The United States announced on Thursday it favoured adding at least two permanent members to the UN Security Council, including Japan, and would next week propose specific criteria for candidate countries...		Turkey protests German vote: Killing of Armenians BERLIN, June 16: Germany’s parliament on Thursday condemned Turkey for what it called the mass killing of Armenians by Turks 90 years ago, sparking an angry protest from Ankara...
US senator condemns torture tactics WASHINGTON, June 16: The minority whip in the US Senate has compared the US military’s treatment of a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot. ...		UK threatens to veto EU budget: Summit begins on grim note BRUSSELS, June 16: Britain rejected on Thursday latest EU proposals to resolve an ugly row over its budget rebate, talking tough at the start of a summit deadlocked on future financing...
Sudan minister resigns over building collapse KHARTOUM, June 16: Sudan’s powerful interior minister has resigned after a building he owned collapsed killing at least one person, an interior ministry official said on Thursday. ...		US accuses Iran of misleading IAEA VIENNA, June 16: Iran continues to mislead the United Nations nuclear watchdog about its past and present nuclear activities, a senior US official said on Thursday. “It is evident that Iran...
Sunnis’ plea for more seats granted BAGHDAD, June 16: A deal was reached on Thursday for Sunnis to participate in a panel to draft Iraq’s new constitution, ending weeks of political wrangling and raising prospects...		Welles spoke in ’82 of NY strike: film TINOS (Greece), June 16: A French movie just completed in Greece includes 1982 footage of cinema legend Orson Welles warning of a terrorist strike ‘blowing out’ New York,...
EU in contact with Hamas GAZA, June 16: The Palestinian militant group Hamas disclosed on Thursday that European Union diplomats had held talks with some of its members, an apparent shift in EU policy that drew...		Constitution set to be frozen BRUSSELS, June 16: Leaders of the demoralized European Union moved towards freezing ratification of their troubled constitution on Thursday, but the 25 nations were no closer to a deal...
Republicans to table bill on pullout WASHINGTON, June 16: A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday urged US President George Bush to set a plan...		Egypt leads drive to stop Hamas poll win CAIRO: Egypt is leading behind-the-scenes efforts to curb further ballotbox successes by the militant Palestinian group Hamas in planned parliamentary elections in Gaza and the West Bank...
Guantanamo trials violate justice, Congress told WASHINGTON: The military tribunals of suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay were a “tremendous failure”, a US military lawyer told Congress on Wednesday. Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles...		Chechen govt admits civilians buried in mass graves MOSCOW: The government that Moscow has installed in Chechnya admitted on Wednesday that there were more than 50 mass graves on its territory. It said that up to 60,000 people...
Bush agenda could stall Security Council action UNITED NATIONS: The Bush administration wants the United Nations to take action on five key reforms before expanding the Security Council, a senior US official said on Wednesday,...		Scottish town braces for G8 juggernaut AUCHTERARDER (Scotland): Little seems out of the ordinary in this clean, quiet Scottish town with its small upmarket shops stretching down the long main street. But a shiny new steel fence, snaking across the green hills and glinting in the sunshine...