July 30, 2005	Saturday	Jumadi-us-Sani 22, 1426

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China’s talks with Bhutan worry India NEW DELHI, July 29: Bhutan has held talks to discuss its border issues with China and the move has become a worrying prospect for India, the Indian Express said on Friday. The report, which also said Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuk would visit India next week...		US presents DPRK with ‘evidence’: Links with A.Q. Khan NEW YORK, July 29: The Bush administration has for the first time presented North Korea with specific ‘evidence’ behind American allegations that it secretly obtained uranium enrichment technology from the founder...
Vientiane meeting urges Myanmar govt to free Suu Kyi VIENTIANE, July 29: The Asia-Pacific region’s main security forum called on Myanmar’s military junta on Friday to speed up its planned transition to multi-party rule, saying it was concerned about the lack of democratic reform....		Discovery crew unhappy with Nasa HOUSTON, July 29: Discovery’s commander said on Friday that the shuttle’s crew had been surprised and disappointed to find that Nasa had not ended the foam debris problem that caused the Columbia disaster two years earlier....
Radio host suspended for vilifying Islam WASHINGTON, July 29: A radio station in the US capital suspended a talk show host on Friday for repeatedly saying that “Islam is a terrorist organization.”...		Millions of dollars missing in Iraq: US begins investigation WASHINGTON, July 29: A special auditor tracking billions of dollars spent by the United States to rebuild Iraq said on Thursday he has found millions of dollars worth of fraud by US officials and companies....
US unsure of Mahmood’s role in hostage crisis WASHINGTON, July 29: The United States has concluded that Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was a leader of the movement behind the 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran but...		China terms Japan’s threat blackmail UNITED NATIONS, July 29: China on Thursday termed as “blackmail” the Japanese foreign minister’s remarks that Japan may be forced to cut off its UN contribution if it is not elected as the permanent member of the UN Security Council....
Lawmakers press Bush over Iraq pullout plan WASHINGTON, July 29: Republicans and Democrats said on Thursday that setting a timetable for US troops to leave Iraq would send a message to the world, not to militants there....		Bomb caused train blast in India: police LUCKNOW, July 29: Police in India said on Friday that an explosion in a train that left 13 people dead and dozens wounded was caused by a bomb planted in a toilet....
Rice adjudged most powerful woman NEW YORK, July 29: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the world’s most powerful woman, beating out a host of presidents, celebrities and chief executives to top Forbes magazine’s global ranking of feminine clout....		Egypt must tolerate its opposition CAIRO: Something extraordinary happened here the other day. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is an illegal organization, joined leftwing activists for a demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak....
Russians want oil money flowing their way MOSCOW: Most Russians want new oil money spent on social projects, a new survey shows. The economy of Russia, the second largest exporter of oil after Saudi Arabia, is riding high on a boom in oil prices....		Japan embarks on journey to study birth of life TOKYO: Japanese scientists are preparing to dig deep inside the Earth for the first time in human history to unlock the mysteries of life in an attempt to figure out how civilization came to be and how to save it....
Australia to breed test-tube sharks SYDNEY: The endangered grey nurse shark is its own worst enemy, its young eat each other in the womb, so Australian scientists have a radical rescue plan to artificially inseminate and breed the ocean predator in test-tubes....		Muslim settlers fear persecution in Assam MOIRABARI (India): For more than two months, Sarifa Begum has been a virtual prisoner in her small neighbourhood on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam....
Titanic shipyard to be revamped BELFAST: In 1989 Harland and Wolff, the company that built the Titanic and whose giant yellow cranes still dominate Belfast’s skyline, closed the doors on a dockside building that was its headquarters for more than a century....		Terror centre has shifted to Iraq: expert SINGAPORE: Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the epicentre of international terrorism and escalated the threat of Muslim extremist violence around the globe, security expert Rohan Gunaratna said on Friday....
Train blown up in Baghdad BAGHDAD: Insurgents set off a huge blaze when they blew up a train carrying petroleum products in Baghdad on Friday. The attack was the first such incident in Iraq, railway spokesman Jawad al Kharsan said....		India violated airspace: BD DHAKA: Three Indian jets on Friday allegedly violated Bangladesh’s airspace and entered 12 kilometres inside Patgram frontier in the northern district of Lalmonirhat, a Bangladeshi official said on Friday....