June 28, 2005	Tuesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 20, 1426

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Muslims take to street in protest: Aid deal in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, June 27: Muslims set fire to tyres and blocked main roads in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday to demand a greater say in the government’s controversial deal to share tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels....		Muslims were held without charge: report: US reaction to 9/11 NEW YORK, June 27: The American government thrust scores of US-based Muslim men in jail without charge after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, rights groups said in a report published on Monday....
Talk going on with Iraqi guerillas: UK LONDON, June 27: British, US and Iraqi officials have been in talks with groups in Iraq that support resistance to try to bring them into the political process, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday....		Ershad’s wife released DHAKA, June 27: Bidisha Ershad, estranged wife of former president General H M Ershad, was released on bail from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital on Monday...
Syrians fired at Israelis, says army JERUSALEM, June 27: Israeli soldiers on the Golan Heights came under fire from Syria on Monday, but no one was hurt and the troops did not shoot back in a bid...		Americans’ support for Iraq war dipping WASHINGTON: The last fortnight has revealed a growing US public impatience with the military misadventure in the Persian Gulf and an irritation with the White House’s persistent denials that anything is wrong....
US likes elections, but not always the winners WASHINGTON: The hostile US reaction to the election of Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s next president opens President George W. Bush to the charge he supports elections only when they produce...		Islamic fraternity tested by tsunami BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): Like many Muslims in tsunami-hit Aceh, M.Yusuf looks to his religion for guidance. But lately he feels empty as he tries to cope with being thrust from shoe seller to Islamic preacher....
Accord may revitalize Lanka peace process COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s landmark pact to share $3 billion in tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels may help breathe life into the island’s stalled peace process, but age-old political bickering could squander a golden opportunity....		Srebrenica mothers’ search for sons goes on LIPLJE (Bosnia): Nezira Sulejmanovic was wandering like a ghost around a muddy mass grave in eastern Bosnia on a chill rainy day in June. A tiny woman in her 50s, Sulejmanovic...
Arroyo apologizes for phone call to poll official MANILA, June 27: Embattled Philippines leader Gloria Arroyo on Monday admitted calling an election commissioner during polls last year, as secretly recorded tapes purportedly reveal, but denied rigging the vote....		2003 heatwave killed 20,000 in Italy: study ROME, June 27: The heat wave that hit much of Europe in 2003 killed almost 20,000 people throughout Italy, the national statistics institute said on Monday, more than doubling the previous...