June 19, 2005	Sunday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 11, 1426

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EU summit breaks down after discord on budget BRUSSELS, June 18: The European Union was plunged deeper into crisis on Saturday after its leaders failed to agree on a long-term budget, two weeks after French and Dutch voters rejected...		Records of 40m credit card holders stolen in US WASHINGTON, June 18: A credit card company has revealed the largest security breach in recent history, reporting that an ‘unauthorized individual’ had infiltrated a computer network earlier in the week...
Taliban threaten to put 31 officials on trial KANDAHAR, June 18: The Taliban said on Saturday they were holding 30 policemen and a local official at a district headquarters and planned to put them on trial for supporting ...		Kyrgyz govt claims it’s in control BISHKEK, June 18: Kyrgyzstan’s authorities moved on Saturday to show they were fully in control following clashes between police and protestors amid fears for the Central Asian country’s stability...
Muslim party opposes govt’s deal with LTTE COLOMBO, June 18: Sri Lanka’s main Muslim party said on Saturday that it would be difficult for it to support the president’s joint mechanism with the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) for tsunami...		Eight rescued after helicopter crashes NEW YORK, June 18: Eight people were rescued from drowning in New York’s East River after a helicopter carrying executives of a financial services company went down near the United Nations...
Iranian liberals divided on backing Rafsanjani TEHRAN: Dazed young reformists tried on Saturday to come to terms with their battering in Iran’s presidential poll, sickened by an unappetising choice between two conservatives in a run-off next week....		Iranian reformist says election was rigged TEHRAN, June 18: The shock presidential election showing by Tehran’s right-wing Mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad was the result of an elaborate plot to rig the polls, one of the beaten reformist contenders...
Israel to seal off Gaza with underwater wall AL QUDS: The Israeli navy is to build an underwater security barrier around the Gaza Strip to prevent Palestinians getting into Israel from the sea, the Israeli government announced recently...		Schroeder blames UK for failure BRUSSELS, June 18: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday blamed the failure of EU budget talks squarely on Britain and the Netherlands, as acrimonious fingerpointing eruptedt...
Work starts on Afghan, Tajik bridge NIZHNII PYANZH (Tajikistan), June 18: Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a US-funded bridge that will cross their countries’ river...		Hardliner wins hearts of Iran’s poor TEHRAN, June 18: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a staunch backer of the hardline religious leadership which holds real power in Iran, has won the votes of the pious poor to secure a place...
Rice urges PA to rein in militants RAMALLAH, June 18: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday urged the Palestinian Authority (PA) to do much more to rein in militants as she warned time was running...		US takes little relief from Europe’s woes WASHINGTON: The United States may be relieved it no longer has to fend off a budding political counterweight in Europe, but it is taking little comfort in the deepening political woes...
Suu Kyi living in forced isolation YANGON (Myanmar): She is known simply as The Lady. She lives in isolation in her old family home on a quiet lake in the northern part of the city...		Mugabe’s ex-ally slams town razing NAIROBI: President Robert Mugabe’s policy of razing shanty towns in Zimbabwe, making 250,000 people homeless, has been attacked as “barbaric”...
UK arms sales to Africa reach £1bn mark LONDON: British arms sales to Africa have risen to record levels over the last four years and have reached the £1 billion mark, The Observer can reveal. Analysis of official figures...		Annan slams US House vote on payment UNITED NATIONS, June 18: Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday that the passing of a bill in the United States House of Representatives that calls for withholding of US dues...