August 4, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-us-Sani 27, 1426

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Iran puts off plan to resume N-work TEHRAN, Aug 3: Iran said it hoped to resume work at a uranium conversion plant by early next week, backtracking from an earlier plan to restart on Wednesday, but still rejecting Western appeals to keep the project frozen....		Tehran asks Delhi to make decision soon: Gas pipeline NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Iran told India on Wednesday to make up its mind soon, amid fading prospects, about a troubled gas pipeline project via Pakistan, because there were other buyers waiting, including Iraq....
Army seizes power in Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 3: Mauritania’s army said on Wednesday it had seized power to end the ‘totalitarian’ regime of President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya, who is out of the country, and planned to rule for up to two years....		Guerillas using more powerful bombs: US WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Guerillas are using more powerful, armour penetrating bombs in attacks like those this week that killed 21 US marines in western Iraq, a US general said on Wednesday....
World’s first dog cloned SEOUL, Aug 3: Man can now reproduce his best friend — South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they had created the world’s first cloned dog. Woo-Suk Hwang and his team of...		UK women advised not to wear veil LONDON, Aug 3: A leading moderate Muslim in Britain on Wednesday advised women against wearing the veil for safety reasons in the aftermath of the London bombings....
Manmohan takes a cue from Bush NEW DELHI: India, under the Global Democracy Initiative, appears to have accepted the American definition of democracy and agreed to work together to assist “societies in transition” to become more “open and democratic.”...		Taj may turn into no-fly zone LUCKNOW: In order to prevent militant attacks on shrines and monuments of national and international importance, the Uttar Pradesh government has proposed to turn them into no-flying zones....
India, US not ganging up against China: Manmohan NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that a milestone accord signed by India and the United States to access civilian nuclear technology was not a military alliance aimed against China....		Man confesses to murder that didn’t happen MIAMI, Aug 3: A Florida man confessed to a murder that never happened, hoping it would persuade his wife to leave him, a Miami newspaper, the Ocala Star Banner, reported on Wednesday....
100 dead in Sudan violence KHARTOUM, Aug 3: Riots that erupted in the Sudanese capital following the announcement of former southern rebel leader John Garang’s death have left almost one hundred people dead, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday....		West caught in fight among Muslims: US DALLAS, Aug 3: The West has been caught up in a fight within Islam that pits religious militants against the large majority of Muslim moderates, United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday....
US accused of suppressing Hiroshima film WASHINGTON, Aug 3: As the world prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Saturday, some American media experts see uncomfortable echoes between the...		Earth ‘air’ on Moon PARIS, Aug 3: The Moon’s soil is impregnated with nitrogen that came from Earth’s atmosphere, according to Japanese scientists writing on Thursday in Nature, the weekly British science journal....
Nepal: at war with whom? KATHMANDU: Few people were likely surprised when the king’s government jailed former Prime Mminister Sher Bahadur Deuba last week. He was three times premier in an era that the monarch says...		India to take lead in tsunami early warning system PERTH: India was on Wednesday selected to take the lead in implementing a tsunami early warning system for Indian Ocean countries after the devastating December waves that killed more than 200,000 people....
Rains douse Mumbai’s dream to become Shanghai MUMBAI: India’s dream of turning its financial hub, Mumbai, into another Shanghai was washed away by the city’s worst rains on record that left dead bodies and animal carcasses floating on the flooded streets....		Vigilantes ‘causing casualties’ in Nepal KATHMANDU: Nepal’s use of vigilante groups to protect villages from Maoist rebels has led to increasing civilian casualties, Amnesty International said on Wednesday in a report which also alleged “systematic and routine” torture by troops....