July 4, 2005	Monday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1426

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Africans call on G-8 to help fight hunger: Summit in Libya SIRTE (Libya), July 3 Exploiting the momentum of a star-studded global anti-poverty campaign, African countries called on Sunday for stepped up pressure on rich nations to help them fight hunger, disease and war on the continent....		Indian floods kill 132 AHMEDABAD, July 3: Relief teams on Sunday rushed food, water, medicines and other essentials to hundreds of thousands marooned by floods that have killed 132 people in India’s Gujarat state. The rescue and relief effort gathered pace during a lull in heavy rains...
Rain paralyses life in Dhaka DHAKA, July 3: Heavy downpour that began on Saturday midnight continued on Sunday, submerging most parts of the Dhaka and paralysing the city life. The Met Office recorded 151-millimetre rainfall till 3:00pm in Dhaka alone....		BNP, AL faceoff threatens democracy DHAKA: Bangladesh is to have parliamentary elections some 18 months from now, but the country’s main political parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League, have started making all-out efforts to outsmart each other....
White House aide leaked CIA agent’s name WASHINGTON, July 3: E-mails surrendered by Time magazine to a grand jury probing the leak of a CIA agent’s identity show that top White House aide Karl Rove might...		US scientists fire at comet to peek into core WASHINGTON, July 3: Planet Earth early on Sunday fired its first ever shot at a passing comet in the hope of peeking into its core. It will be known on Monday at 0552 GMT whether it was a hit or miss....
Woman pilot’s appointment termed un-Islamic RIYADH, July 3: An associate professor of Imam Muhammad-ibn-Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has objected to the hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot, terming the appointment un-Islamic, it was reported here on Sunday....		Afghan cleric dies in Taliban attack KANDAHAR, July 3: A pro-government Islamic scholar died after being shot by suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the second such attack in just over a month, officials said....
When the oil wars blow LONDON: Occasionally, there are tipping-point moments and we are witnessing one at the moment. Seismic change is afoot. As oil prices breach $60 a barrel and pessimists warn that the world...		Mass mobilization in N. Korea to stem famine HAEGUMGANG (North Korea): From the first light of morning, soldiers squat in the fields, many of them stripped down to their T-shirts. They are joined by women with babies strapped to...
Satellite to help conserve elephants KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s pygmy elephants, which were only recently identified as a new subspecies, are being fitted with satellite collars to gain vital information about how they live and how to protect them....		Russia hails OIC move MOSCOW, July 3: Russia voiced its satisfaction at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference’s decision to grant it observer status, the foreign ministry said late on Saturday....