August 13, 2005	Saturday	Rajab 7, 1426

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Israel considering giving up more settlements: PM JERUSALEM, Aug 12: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised the prospect on Friday that Israel could eventually...		India is as vital to US as Israel: report WASHINGTON, Aug 12: India is now the new China for high investment returns and the United States is beginning to see it as important an ally as Israel, says a recent investment report....
9/11 audio tapes made public NEW YORK, Aug 12: Dramatic and previously unreleased details of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on New York were made public on Friday following a court order that overruled the city’s...		Bush gets first look at vigil CRAWFORD, Aug 12: President George Bush got his first look at an anti-war vigil near his ranch on Friday as his motorcade took him by the protest site lined with small white crosses representing fallen American soldiers in Iraq....
BD’s energy resources under threat: experts DHAKA, Aug 12: An unholy alliance led by international lending agencies poses a threat to Bangladesh’s security. A group of left-leaning intellectuals sounded the warning at a conference on Friday....		Nasa probe blasts off for Mars CAPE CANAVERAL, Aug 12: An Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday and dispatched a sophisticated Nasa probe on a journey to Mars to look for water on Earth’s mysterious neighbour planet....
US lobbyist indicted on fraud charges MIAMI, Aug 12: A high-power lobbyist with close ties to a top Republican in the US Congress was indicted by a US grand jury Thursday on charges stemming from an alleged fraudulent real estate deal....		Lankan govt’s warning over tsunami aid COLOMBO, Aug 12: The Lankan government has told aid organizations to begin rehabilitation work in tsunami-affected areas before the end of the month or risk cancellation of land allotted to them....
Man arrested near UN HQ UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12: The New York police took a California man into custody at a parking garage near the UN headquarters on Thursday on a suspicion that he was carrying firearms and a container of gasoline in his car....		Ex-minister jailed AUGSBURG (Germany), Aug 12: Former German junior defence minister Ludwig-Holger Pfahls was jailed on Friday for two years on bribery charges stemming from an arms deal with Saudi Arabia....
Aga Khan gets Carnegie medal LONDON, Aug 12: The Aga Khan is among recipients of this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy....		It is not only Iraq that is occupied WASHINGTON: It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. Americans became familiar with that term during the Second World War....
World festival draws 15,000 activists: Youths swarm Caracas streets CARACAS: Over 15,000 young people from 144 countries around the globe have gathered in Venezuela for eight days of seminars, workshops and an ‘anti-imperialist tribunal’, along with a healthy dose of...		Attention hackers! Uncle Sam wants you LAS VEGAS: As scam artists, organized-crime rings and other miscreants find a home on the Internet, top federal officials are trolling hacker conferences to scout talent and talk up the glories...
Many go hungry in Niger MARADI (Niger): With her family’s stocks of millet long gone, Rachida Abdou tied her shrunken baby girl to her back and grabbed the emaciated hand of her seven-year-old son....		Germany’s new left upsets the apple cart BERLIN: Helmut Scholz is up for a fight — and the political establishment is running scared. The German left, he says, won’t be fooled again. Speaking in Berlin this week, the...