July 18, 2005	Monday	Jumadi-us-Sani 10, 1426

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Emergency declared in Muslim provinces: Unrest in Thailand BANGKOK, July 17: Thailand declared emergency rule across virtually the whole of its Muslim south on Sunday in a surprisingly tough move to reign in a raging insurgency....		Indonesia, rebels agree formula for Aceh peace HELSINKI, July 17: Indonesia and Aceh rebels will sign a truce on Aug 15 after agreeing on Sunday a formula for ending the 30-year-old conflict that has cost 12,000 lives in the province devastated by last December’s tsunami....
Nato will cover south Afghanistan in 2006 KABUL, July 17: Nato forces aim to take command of security and reconstruction work in southern Afghanistan early next year and hope to take responsibility for the entire country within two years, a top Nato officer said on Sunday....		UNSC expansion: deal sought UNITED NATIONS, July 17: As representatives of the African Union and the foreign ministers of G-4 countries met Sunday afternoon to hammer out a compromise deal on the two competing resolutions...
Turkish police probe minibus bombing IZMIR (Turkey), July 17: Turkish police increased security at tourist resorts on Sunday as investigators sifted through the wreckage of a minibus ripped apart by a bomb that killed five people, including a British and an Irish woman....		It’s paranoia, not Islamophobia LONDON: Britain can take pride in how it has been trying to make a reality of political and legal equality for its 1.6 million Muslim citizens over recent years....
Palestinians fear more land loss after Gaza pullout ESLA (West Bank): Mohammed Abdel-Karim, a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank, watches in trepidation as Israel sinks roots deeper into the occupied territory just as it is preparing to pull out of the Gaza Strip....		Iraqis helpless against wave of suicide attacks BAGHDAD: A few Iraqis suspected the fuel truck that pulled up between a market and a mosque. But, as so often, they had no time to act before the suicide bomber...
Scientists decode 3 parasite genomes WASHINGTON: Three parasites that sicken or kill millions of people in the developing world every year have been genetically sequenced and are giving up clues that could be used to fight them, scientists said last week....		A simple but lethal device LONDON: Police suspect that the explosive used in last week’s attacks in London was a compound known to chemists as “mother of Satan”. It is simple to make and has been...
Clean hands slash disease risk: study PARIS: Poor countries can make headway against two killer diseases by the simple, low-cost method of encouraging citizens to wash their hands with soap, according to a study....		Kyrgyzstan president asks US to quit base MOSCOW, July 17: Kyrgyzstan’s newly elected President Kurmanbek Bakiyev repeated on Sunday his call for the United States to pull out of the base in his country it has been occupying since 2001....
Israel kills 2 Hamas activists GAZA CITY, July 17: Two militants were shot dead by Israeli troops on Sunday, as Israel carried out a fresh air strike and threatened a wide-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip unless Palestinians halted rocket attacks....		Three die in BD scrapmetal blast CHITTAGONG, July 17: Three people died and four others were seriously injured on Sunday when a shell which had been sold off as scrap metal exploded at a dealer’s workshop in south eastern Bangladesh, police said....