July 5, 2005	Tuesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 27, 1426

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Troops comb Baghdad for kidnapped Egyptian envoy BAGHDAD, July 4: Iraqi and US troops combed suspected insurgent hideouts in west Baghdad on Monday after Egypt’s ambassador designate became the first foreign head of mission kidnapped in the 15-month-old hostage crisis....		Syrian forces clash with Saddam guards DAMASCUS, July 4: Syrian forces captured two “terrorists” and a security officer was killed on Monday in a dawn clash with extremists who included former bodyguards of Saddam Hussein, official media said....
Bush tells Blair not to expect favours: Deal on climate change LONDON, July 4: President George Bush has told Britain’s Tony Blair to expect no favours at this week’s Group of Eight summit in return for backing the invasion of Iraq as...		A new generation of N-weapons? LONDON: Just three days before the last general election, Tony Blair was reported to have secretly decided that Britain would build a new generation of nuclear weapons to replace Trident....
Asia needs $100m to fight bird flu: UN experts KUALA LUMPUR: Asia needs about $100 million in the next three years to fight avian flu as the virus looks set to stay, but only about a third of that has been pledged, health and livestock experts said....		Amid doubt on Europe’s future, some seek common past BRUSSELS: As the European Union agonizes over its uncertain future after French and Dutch voters rejected its constitution, a dedicated band of historians is trying to unite Europe by giving it a common past....
Myanmar’s junta pondering leaving Yangon YANGON: Myanmar’s military junta may be readying to move part of their administration outside the capital to somewhere ‘safer’, analysts and diplomats here say. Pyinmana, a region described by tour guides...		Einstein was in agony over atomic bombings TOKYO: Previously unpublished letters by Albert Einstein to a Japanese pen pal show the physicist to be defensive over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which became possible through his genius....
China condemns US legislators’ move: Bid for Unocal BEIJING, July 4: China on Monday angrily responded to a vote by US lawmakers urging the Bush administration to block the 18.5 billion-dollar bid by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to take over US oil group Unocal....		Qadhafi calls for borderless Africa SIRTE, July 4: Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi on Monday told African leaders their people’s woes would be solved by creating a borderless continent with a single passport....
Malaysian govt to crack down on ‘deviant’ sect KUALA LUMPUR, July 4: Religious authorities in Malaysia’s Muslim heartland on Monday vowed to shut down a ‘deviant’ sect whose members were arrested in a weekend raid, saying it was a threat to national security....		Israeli president fears Sharon assassination JERUSALEM, July 4: Israeli President Moshe Katsav said on Monday the vocal opposition of pro-settler rabbis to Israel’s Gaza pullout could incite ultranationalists to try to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon....
Gujarat on alert ,for epidemics: Gujarat on alert for epidemics AHMEDABAD, July 4: Health officials on Monday sounded an alert against possible epidemics in India’s rain-hit Gujarat state, where floods have affected some 25 million people, as relief teams rushed clean water, food and medicine to hardest-hit areas....		Chirac mocks at Britain for mad cow PARIS, July 4: French President Jacques Chirac cracked jokes to Russian and German leaders about bad British food and mad cow disease, a Paris daily said on Monday, in comments that could further strain Anglo-French relations....