June 22, 2005	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 14, 1426

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Saudi Arabia rejects US criticism RIYADH, June 21: Saudi Arabia has rejected the criticism of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the pace of democratic reforms and the jailing of three activists. ...		US defends Khalid’s secret custody WASHINGTON, June 21: President George Bush on Monday defended the US treatment of detainees and said the mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks should stay in secret custody...
US moral authority in free fall, say senators: Guantanamo prison NEW YORK: As Amnesty International urged the George W. Bush administration to close Guantánamo and disclose the situation in the USA’s shadowy network of detention centers around the globe...		Anti-Syrian politician assassinated in Beirut: Rice urges Damascus to ‘knock it off’ BEIRUT, June 21: An anti-Syrian politician was killed in Lebanon on Tuesday when a bomb ripped through his car, two days after parliamentary elections brought victory for an alliance opposed...
Democracy’s advance in Egypt poses dilemma for US LONDON: Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, called on Monday for a more inclusive, democratic process in Egypt, but sidestepped the continuing ban on the Muslim Brotherhood...		Brothers Grimm fairy tales included in Unesco list BONN: Unesco said Tuesday it has accepted the Brothers Grimm fairy tales from Germany, adored by generations of children, to join its Memory of the World list. The gothic stories...
Corruption is Nigeria’s biggest problem LAGOS: Starting your own company is expensive in any country but Nigerian businessman Chidi-Martins Opara faced a hidden extra cost: the payment of bribes. The first hurdle was registering...		French president’s popularity falling PARIS: Two crushing failures over Europe have left French President Jacques Chirac looking impotent two years before the end of his presidency, his popularity in freefall and the economy offering...
Graft scam now a crisis for Brazil’s president SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO (Brazil): The stories have both transfixed and enraged the Brazilian public in recent days: suitcases stuffed with cash, backroom payouts to lawmakers, a governing party allegedly buying...		Tehran mayor poses a serious challenge to Rafsanjani TEHRAN: In the shadow of the glittering Shah Abdul Azim shrine, Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the unexpected contender in the Iranian presidential run-off, is seen as a pious working-class hero....
Republicans fail in Bolton vote WASHINGTON, June 21: Senate Democrats on Monday again blocked the nomination of John Bolton as UN ambassador, raising the possibility that President George Bush may seek to bypass lawmakers and put...		Vietnam PM in historic US visit WASHINGTON, June 21: US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he would visit Vietnam in 2006 as he welcomed Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai for historic talks at the...
US guards recall ‘oddly endearing’ Saddam’s company WASHINGTON, June 21: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein munches corn chips, washes his own clothes and tends his garden during captivity, according to US troops who guarded him at an undisclosed...		Saudi police claim killing cop’s murderers RIYADH, June 21: Saudi security forces shot dead on Tuesday morning two suspected militants who had allegedly killed a policeman in Makkah last week, the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting ministry...