July 6, 2005	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 28, 1426

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SCO seeks deadline for pullout: US bases in Central Asia ASTANA, July 5: The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a six-nation security bloc, called for a deadline to be set on the pullout of Western bases from Uzbekistan and...		Pentagon reviewing two-war strategy NEW YORK, July 5: The current burden of fighting wars on two fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — is prompting planners at the Pentagon to rethink the war strategy since it...
Nasa probe leaves crater, debris trail on comet PASADENA, July 5: A spectacular collision between a spacecraft and a comet has freed a huge plume of primordial material from the comet’s nucleus that could unlock the secret of how life arrived on Earth, Nasa scientists said on Monday....		China transforming world trade order: Hu Jintao star at G8 summit PARIS: When G8 leaders meet in Scotland this week, the star is arguably Chinese President Hu Jintao, an outsider whose booming Communist-run country is transforming the world economic order....
Imams being lured into US for trial, says paper SAN FRANCISCO, July 5: In the last year, the US Homeland Security officials have begun to use an immigration law granting foreign religious workers temporary visas into the US as a...		Hamas vows to resist disarmament attempt GAZA CITY, July 5: The Hamas on Tuesday warned the Palestinian Authority it would resist any attempts to disarm its militants after snubbing an offer to serve in a national unity government....
Srebrenica survivors tell tale of ordeal SREBRENICA(Bosnia-Hercegovina): Mevludin Oric, one of a handful of Muslim men who survived the 1995 mass executions in Srebrenica, believes he received the gift of life so he could testify about the horrors he had seen....		ANC rift to slow S.Africa’s reform JOHANNESBURG: The backlash over South African President Thabo Mbeki’s decision to sack his popular leftist deputy will slow crucial labour reform but not derail the government’s centrist economic policies, analysts say....
Hackers make way for criminals AMSTERDAM: Spotty teenage hackers who set off global email viruses are being replaced by serious online crooks whose stealth attacks don’t make headlines but cause more damage, security software makers said on Tuesday....		Kuwait faces pressure on rules of succession KUWAIT: Kuwait has a long-ailing emir and and even more ill crown prince, putting pressure on the Gulf oil state’s ruling family to clarify who is next in line for power....
Austria starts probe against Mahmoud VIENNA, July 5: Austrian prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether Iran’s president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna, the interior ministry said on Tuesday....		10,000 evacuated after fire DRAGUIGNAN (France), July 5: More than 10,000 people — many of them foreign tourists — were evacuated from six camping grounds on the French Riviera Tuesday as an intense forest fire...
UK plans Iraq pullout over 18 months: paper LONDON, July 5: Britain’s defence ministry has drafted plans for a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next 18 months and a big deployment to Afghanistan, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday....		Chernobyl victims heal in Cuba TARARA (Cuba): At a beach resort near Havana, children with bald heads and skin lesions splash with joy in the warm Caribbean sea. They are victims of radiation fallout from the...
Africa urges G8 to scrap debt SIRTE (Libya), July 5: African leaders urged the summit of rich nations opening in Britain on Wednesday to cancel debt owed by African governments, reform international trade and increase aid to fight poverty on the continent....		EU’s warning to Iran over N-arms plan WASHINGTON: The European Union will not accept a resumption of any nuclear arms activity by Iran, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douse-Blazy said on Tuesday after talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice....