August 8, 2005	Monday	Rajab 2, 1426

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Israeli govt approves Gaza pullout JERUSALEM, Aug 7: Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned in protest on Sunday as the cabinet approved the first phase of evacuations from settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip....		Russian sub crew rescued PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (Russia), Aug 7: Seven exhausted Russian sailors returned to dry land on Sunday after a dramatic operation by a British undersea robot freed their mini-submarine three days after it became trapped on the Pacific Ocean floor....
3 killed, 9 hurt in India blasts GUWAHATI, Aug 7: A string of blasts and attacks by rebels in Assam on Sunday left three people dead and at least nine injured as violence escalated ahead of the country’s Independence Day celebrations on August 15, police said....		Casualties in Iraq hit Bush’s standing WASHINGTON, Aug 7: US President George W. Bush took a political beating this weekend after a second opinion poll, taken after a spike in US casualties in Iraq, showed a sharp drop in public support for his Iraq policy....
US-UN relations on a collision course UNITED NATIONS: As the United Nations gets ready to mark its 60th anniversary at a summit meeting of world leaders next month, the United States may be heading towards a political confrontation course with the world body....		Robin Cook A lifetime passion for politics LONDON: It is somehow fitting that Robin Cook’s most memorable parliamentary performance in a political career that spanned three-and-a-half decades should have come in a resignation speech....
Landslides, rain kill 11 in India NEW DELHI, Aug 7: At least 11 people were killed in landslides or other accidents following heavy rain in north India and hundreds made homeless when their houses were submerged by an artificial lake, a report said on Sunday....		Mauritania frees jailed Islamists NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 7: Mauritania’s new army rulers ordered the release on Sunday of around 20 Islamic activists jailed by ousted President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya. The detainees were part of a...
S. Africa mines struggle to upgrade apartheid hostels RANDFONTEIN (South Africa): South African gold miner Remaketsi Lekoala misses his wife and five children. When he started work at the Cooke gold mine west of Johannesburg 18 years ago, he...		Barbie comes back to Taiwan TAISHAN (Taiwan): Barbie is making a comeback in a small town in Taiwan that used to churn out the blonde plastic dolls for top US toymaker Mattel nearly 20 years ago....