August 16, 2005	Tuesday	Rajab 10, 1426

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Palestinians set parliamentary poll for Jan 21 RAMALLAH (West Bank), Aug 15: Palestinian parliamentary elections, the first to be contested by the Islamic militant group Hamas, will be held on Jan 21, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday....		Netherlands accepts date of Indonesian independence THE HAGUE, Aug 15: At the 60th anniversary of Japanese capitulation and the end of the Japanese occupation of then Dutch colony Indonesia, Foreign Minister Ben Bot said on Monday that...
Diplomacy key to resolving Iran issue: US SINGAPORE, Aug 15: Diplomacy will remain the most important means of convincing North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programmes, a senior US official said here on Monday....		S. Lanka slain minister cremated COLOMBO, Aug 15: Sri Lanka’s assassinated foreign minister was given a state funeral on Monday as Colombo vowed to honour a truce despite blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the murder and demanding a review of the peace process....
11 killed in Vietnam HANOI, Aug 15: Eleven people, including two children, were killed when a train ploughed into a bus that was trying to cross the tracks in central Vietnam, police said Monday....		Bermuda contemplates upward expansion HAMILTON (Bermuda): In a rare collective pause for reflection, the people of this prosperous mid-Atlantic island are debating whether they want to bust their own boom....
Ordeal of abandoned kin of ANC fighters MOROGORO (Tanzania): When Monica Mathe married her South African husband, she also married his ideals, embracing the beliefs of an exiled member of the anti-apartheid African National Congress....		Gaza settlers beg protesters to let history unravel NEVE DEKALIM SETTLEMENT (Gaza Strip): “In the name of the residents of Neve Dekalim, please let the lorries through!” yelled a harried-looking settler through a loudspeaker, pleading with a seething mass...
Hard times at the Russian port city PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (Russia): To drive the coastal highway of this port city on the Bering Sea, or to go out to its airport, is to navigate an obstacle course of potholes and bounce past blocks of crumbling apartment buildings....		Labour Party needs Cook’s optimism LONDON: The reaction to Robin Cook’s death shows that he was much more than a great parliamentarian and a reforming minister. In this age of public disaffection there are not many...
The storm troopers have to be curbed LONDON: There are two views about the propriety of the way in which the Gate Gourmet employees — at the heart of the Heathrow disruption — behaved....