August 20, 2005	Saturday	Rajab 14, 1426

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Abbas hails Gaza pullout as ‘fruit of sacrifice’ RAFAH, Aug 19: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday hailed Israel’s historic Gaza pullout as the result of Palestinian sacrifice. With most of the 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza evacuated or empty, Mr Abbas told a crowd of jubilant supporters that the ending of 38 years...		Sunnis, Sadr oppose federalism: 3 party workers gunned down in Iraq BAGHDAD, Aug 19: Iraqi leaders expressed optimism on Friday that the final draft of a new constitution would be ready by the weekend even as leaders of the Sunni community warned that a federal system would be rejected at the polls....
AL vows to oust BD govt DHAKA, Aug 19: Dhaka turned into a city of processions on Friday, with the country’s different political camps staging protests over a series of explosions earlier in the week...		Republican senator calls for talks with Iran WASHINGTON, Aug 19: Republican Party foreign policy expert Sen. Chuck Hagel is calling for the United States to open talks with Iran’s new president and has dismissed President George Bush’s talk...
Police chief fears more bombings in London LONDON, Aug 19: Police have ‘an intuitive view’ of a link between the group that carried out the July 7 bombings in London and the one that tried but failed two...		Canada faces suit over missed assignment OTTAWA, Aug 19: A Canadian man whose diplomatic posting to India was stalled by security concerns threatened Thursday to sue the government to get reinstated. Bhupinder Liddar was appointed consul general...
The theatre of the cynical: Gaza settlers’ retreat LONDON: Contrast the world’s overwhelming coverage, especially on television, of the departure of Israeli settlers from Gaza with the minimal reporting of larger and more brutal evictions in previous months....		The most glaring scandal of all LONDON: The US Congress is incensed about a scandal. From 1996 to 2003 the UN’s oil-for-food programme allegedly enabled Saddam Hussein to misappropriate hundreds of millions of dollars....
A great political laboratory: Mexican immigrants in US CHICAGO: Former Chicago businessman and Mexican immigrant Timoteo Manjarrez recently decided to run for mayor in his hometown of Teloloapan, a poor city in the south of Mexico where he returned to live six years ago....		Has the ‘tipping point’ on Iraq been reached? WASHINGTON: Has the US public lost so much confidence in the George W. Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war that its current strategy — to the extent one actually exists...
Undercover police...online BEIJING: Floozie or role model, attention monger or free spirit? For months, China has been debating what to make of its latest Internet-born star, a young woman known nationwide as Furong Jiejie, aka Sister Furong....		Aishwarya in Tunisia for Hollywood venture MUMBAI: Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai is in Tunisia to film her first Hollywood venture, Roman sword-and-sandal epic The Last Legion in which she sheds her angelic image to play a Byzantine warrior woman on horseback, her agent said....
Palestinians in Lebanon feeling insecure BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees subjected to tighter checks recently by Lebanese troops around their camps in South Lebanon say they feel unfairly blamed for insecurity in Lebanon and fear no one will protect them if they disarm....		Boeing makes emergency landing BREST: A British Boeing 737 with 144 passengers on board made an emergency landing in northwest France late on Friday after experiencing a pressurization problem....