June 25, 2005	Saturday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1426

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Chinese bid for Unocal leaves US in two minds WASHINGTON, June 24: The US government said on Friday that a bold takeover bid by a state-run Chinese energy firm for US oil major Unocal is likely to be reviewed on...		Families press CIA to release Sept 11 report WASHINGTON, June 24: Relatives of the Sept 11 victims on Thursday called on the CIA to release an internal report that scrutinizes the US spy agency’s counter-terrorism efforts prior to the...
Unlikely allies map future for Iraq WASHINGTON: They are unlikely allies — an athletic, down-home Texan who once owned a baseball team and a soft-spoken Iraqi family doctor who spent almost a decade of exile in Iran....		World must help Africa help itself LONDON: Surely they can’t all be wrong. More than 450 organizations in the Make Poverty History coalition, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Coldplay, Bono, economist-to-the-stars Jeffrey Sachs — everyone, it seems, apart...
Privations in Baghdad fuel popular resentment BAGHDAD: In the streets of Baghdad, people wondered on Thursday what else could possibly go wrong. In Karrada, a commercial district across the Tigris River from the city’s fortified Green Zone,...		Tony Blair can get Europe behind him LONDON: Tony Blair’s speech to the European parliament on Thursday confirmed that he is still the consummate political communicator of his generation. I found myself agreeing with every paragraph....
William celebrates graduation LONDON: Prince William graduated with honours from St. Andrews University in Scotland on Thursday in a traditional ceremony attended by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and father, Prince Charles....		Rice’s unwillingness to cross lines affected Mideast trip LONDON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swept through the Middle East last week, leaving behind striking images of a tough-minded diplomat navigating the shoals of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and demanding...
Mississippi myopia of FBI WASHINGTON: The American nation watched this month as the trial of Klansman Edgar Ray Killen forced the white citizens of Philadelphia, Mississippi, to come to terms with their history. But Killen’s...		Judge orders CIA-linked men arrested over kidnap MILAN/ROME, June 24: An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for ‘kidnapping’ an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, where...
Indian call centres on alert after fraud claim BANGALORE, June 24: Indian call centres moved to tighten security on Friday as London police investigated a report workers illegally sold data on British bank customers. Investors said security concerns could...		Privacy advocates assail Pentagon WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has created a vast database of millions of Americans as young as age 16, full of personal data such as grades and Social Security numbers, to help find...
Winfrey accuses firm of racism CHICAGO, June 24: US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is convinced she was turned away from a Hermes store in Paris because she is black and she plans to tell her...		Germany to expel Afghan refugees BERLIN, June 24: The German federal government and 16 German states agreed on Friday to send back numbers of refugees from Afghanistan and Kosovo and to return Iraqi refugees once the...
US killed more than Saddam: ‘tribunal’ ISTANBUL, June 24: The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and writers opposed to the war in Iraq, on Friday accused the United States of causing more...		Settler shot dead in West Bank HEBRON: Palestinian militants killed a Jewish settler and wounded several more in a West Bank drive-by shooting on Friday in a new blow to a faltering Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire....