August 7, 2005	Sunday	Rajab 1, 1426

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Shia leaders asked not to ‘impose will’: US warning on Iraq’s constitution BAGHDAD, Aug 6: Washington’s envoy in Baghdad delivered a warning on Saturday to Iraq’s Shia leaders not to use a new constitution to impose ‘discriminatory laws by majority rule’....		BD ready to join gas pipeline: Natwar DHAKA, Aug 6: India reopened talks with Bangladesh on Saturday over a proposed pipeline that would allow the energy-hungry country to import gas from Myanmar, with indications that both sides had reached an agreement....
Indian team to visit China for oil talks NEW DELHI, Aug 6: An Indian delegation will head to China next week to explore ways to cooperate in acquiring foreign energy assets to meet the soaring fuel needs of their fast-growing economies....		No breakthrough at N. Korea talks BEIJING, Aug 6: Marathon talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions will head into recess after failing to break a deadlock over Pyongyang’s demand for peaceful nuclear capabilities, delegates said on Saturday....
Manipur rebels block supplies GUWAHATI, Aug 6: India on Saturday airlifted food and drugs to the remote northeastern state of Manipur, where a tribal group seeking a separate homeland has blocked roads and cut off supplies, officials said....		3 suspects indicted in UK LONDON, Aug 6: Three more men were remanded in custody on Saturday over last month’s terrorist attacks in London, as the British capital remained on high alert almost exactly a month after the first deadly bombings....
Kurds reject ‘Islamic Iraq’ BAGHDAD, Aug 6: Iraqi Kurds on Saturday rejected suggestions the country should be proclaimed an Islamic state as the northern region’s autonomous parliament debated the country’s draft constitution ahead of a national conference on the issue on Sunday....		Fire in Paris Metro PARIS, Aug 6: A fire in the Paris Metro on Saturday caused light injuries to about 15 people, most of whom suffered from smoke inhalation, a fire official said....
Annan calls for efforts to fight N-proliferation UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6: Secretary General Kofi Annan warned on Saturday that without concerted action, the world faced a “cascade of nuclear proliferation” 60 years after the first atomic bombing in Hiroshima....		Gunmen kill 5 in Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Aug 6: Gunmen in a car killed five Afghan civilians including a woman when they sprayed their vehicle with bullets in an attack in the country’s southeast, an official said on Saturday....
Hiroshima — the top news story that wasn’t CARACAS: The atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago, on Aug 6, 1945, may have been the most crucial event of the 20th century....		EU N-strategy with Iran failing VIENNA: The European strategy to persuade Iran to pursue its nuclear energy programme without making fuel that could be used for atomic weapons seems to be failing as Iran insists on its right to fuel cycle work....
Israeli govt’s policy led to Arabs’ killings SHFARAM/RISHON LETZION: Leaders in the Arab-Israeli town where an extremist Jewish soldier murdered four people on a bus before being lynched, have said the killings resulted from years of official discrimination and vilification of Arabs....		Another Muslim uprising brewing in Dagestan MAKHACHKALA (Russia): A devout Muslim, Uzlipat Khanmagomedova had just awakened for dawn prayers when she heard a commotion outside her modest, two-story house on the outskirts of this provincial capital....
Turkey rebuffs French demands THE war of words between Turkey and France over Ankara’s EU aspirations turned increasingly ugly on Friday as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey criticised Paris’s political elite for saying...		Sniper saps US morale in Baghdad BAGHDAD: They have never seen Juba. They hear him, but by then it’s too late: a shot rings out and another US soldier slumps dead or wounded....
The bomb did not win the war THE idea that it was militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb in 1945 is now discredited. The first exhaustive examination of Japanese, Soviet and US archives, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, confirms...