August 6, 2005	Saturday	Jumadi-us-Sani 29, 1426

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Over 222,000 evacuated as dams flood Indian states MUMBAI, Aug 5: Villages in western and southern India were evacuated on Friday with at least 222,000 people moved to higher ground as waters released from near-bursting dams flooded vast rural tracts, officials said....		EU favours Iran as transit route: Tehran’s claim over oil pipeline TEHRAN, Aug 5: Iran said on Friday the European Union had offered to back it as the main oil transit route from Central Asia to tempt Tehran to freeze its nuclear...
EU’s proposals: highlights BRUSSELS: Following are the highlights of a five-page summary of the proposals on the nuclear issue that were submitted to Iran on Friday:...		US launches fresh offensive in Iraq BAGHDAD, Aug 5: US and Iraqi troops backed by American fighter planes attacked guerillas in western Iraq on Friday, launching the latest in a series...
Garang crash may not have been an accident: Uganda YEI (Sudan), Aug 5: Uganda’s president said on Friday the helicopter crash that killed Sudanese vice president John Garang may not have been an accident, dropping a bombshell on thousands mourning the death of the ex-rebel leader in southern Sudan....		Toronto crash: plane landing termed unusual TORONTO, Aug 5: The Air France plane crashed in Toronto this week landed further down the runway than is normal for a jet of its size, and that’s one of many factors still being probed, investigators said on Friday....
Officials object to Israeli’s burial JERUSALEM, Aug 5: Plans to bury a young Jewish extremist who mowed down four Arab Israelis during a shooting spree on a bus were in limbo on Friday after a string of authorities all refused to sanction his burial....		Israeli ships diverted from Turkey JERUSALEM, Aug 5: Israel ordered four cruise ships headed for Turkey with 3,500 Israeli passengers to change course to other ports on Friday because of a security threat, officials said....
Sharon sleeps with loaded pistol: paper JERUSALEM, Aug 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sleeps with a loaded handgun under his pillow because of the threat of an assassination attempt by Jewish extremists opposed to the Gaza pullout, a newspaper said on Friday....		The birth of ‘mere terror’ LONDON: At the time, there was little immediate sense that something utterly extraordinary had happened, or that life had changed for ever. After August 6, 1945, popular newspapers wrote half nervously...
Spain confronts its past UCLES(Spain): In the shadow of a 16th century monastery, surrounded by fields of sunflowers, archaeologists dig for human remains, uncovering long-hidden evidence of the killing that followed Spain’s Civil War....		Britons see link between bombings, Iraq strife LONDON: Their prime minister doesn’t think so, but one month on, the vast majority of Britons see the conflict in Iraq as a major factor behind the London bombings....
Gaza evacuation is only short-term blow for Israel OFRA (West Bank): Yossi Rund is one of the few Jewish settlers who says aloud that he could accept Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to evacuate the Gaza Strip....		India killed 406 BD citizens: study DHAKA: The Border Security Force (BSF) of India and its citizens have killed 406 Bangladeshis along the frontier areas since January 1, 2000, reports Odhikar, a Dhaka-based human rights coalition....
Poor tribe forgoes riches NIXON (USA): Visitors to the eastern shore of Pyramid Lake 35 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada, can scan an area framed by a desert mountain backdrop and not see a hint of mankind....		Japan PM has burnt all his boats TOKYO: When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sprang to power in 2001 he pledged to reform his ruling party’s hide-bound ways or destroy it in the attempt....