June 24, 2005	Friday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 16, 1426

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Top Al Qaeda man killed in Iraq DUBAI, June 23: Iraq’s most wanted man Abu Musab al Zarqawi said in a purported statement on Thursday that a top Al Qaeda militant on Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted list had been...		17 killed as bombs shake Baghdad BAGHDAD, June 23: Four car bombs shook Baghdad after dawn on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens in the second wave of attacks within hours, police said....
G8 supports US over moves to isolate Syria LONDON, June 23: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won support from the world’s richest nations over Syria on Thursday, as Washington stepped up a campaign to isolate Damascus on the...		UN experts accuse US of stalling jail visits GENEVA, June 23: United Nations human rights investigators on Thursday accused the United States of stalling on their request to visit foreign terror suspects at the US-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan...
700,000 homeless in China floods BEIJING, June 23: Heavy floods have slammed into towns across southern China, killing almost 90 people, leaving dozens missing and forcing some 700,000 to run for their lives, state media and...		Need for dialogue among religions stressed UNITED NATIONS, June 23: Saying that there is both a “knowledge deficit” and “understanding deficit” among faiths and civilizations, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London Maleeha Lodhi stressed the need to promote...
Blair calls for EU renewal, reform BRUSSELS, June 23: British Prime Minister Tony Blair challenged the European Union on Thursday to reform itself to meet the challenges of the global economy, saying the bloc’s constitutional and budget...		Hunger has reached unprecedented level in Africa ABUJA: There is a pain in the belly of Africa that just will not go away. It is gnawing at our development goals and undermining our economies. It is blighting the...
Uzbek DPs prefer life with scorpions to home SASYK (Kyrgyzstan): They live in sweltering heat in the middle of nowhere among dust, scorpions and poisonous spiders. But they shudder at the thought of returning to their native Uzbekistan....		Ahmadinejad — a terrorist or Robin Hood?: Iran’s presidential election TEHRAN: For many of Iran’s poor, he is a modern day Robin Hood with an Islamic twist, a pauper against a prince: meet Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the man who could be Iran’s...
Girl lost in tsunami reunited with father BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): Muhammad Ali stood nervously, his hands clasped tightly. All of a sudden, his 15-year-old daughter whom he was sure died when massive waves smashed into Indonesia’s Aceh last...		Sophia Loren visits native town ROME: In an emotional ceremony on Wednesday, Italian actress Sophia Loren was given honorary citizenship of Pozzuoli, the small town near Naples where she grew up in poverty before rising to...
Europe has few offers of aid for Iraq BRUSSELS: The fledgling government of Iraq won a rhetorical show of support — but few concrete offers of help — at an international conference on Wednesday attended by diplomats from more...		Delhi to help Kabul install power line NEW DELHI, June 23: India’s cabinet on Thursday approved a 4.78 billion rupee grant to fund a power line from Uzbekistan to Kabul, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said....
Crackdown on eve of Iran vote TEHRAN, June 23: Iran said on Thursday it had arrested 26 people, including at least one military figure, for suspected electoral violations ahead of an unpredictable presidential run-off vote....		Afghanistan ‘terrorists’ get help: Putin MOSCOW: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the ‘extremely low’ effectiveness in the fight to rid Afghanistan of what he called international terrorists and the narcotics trade, saying that ‘terrorists’...