August 22, 2005	Monday	Rajab 16, 1426

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Iraq war is similar to Vietnam: US senator WASHINGTON, Aug 21: Influential Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said on Sunday the longer the United States stayed bogged down in Iraq, the more it looked like another Vietnam....		Brotherhood asks people to vote out Mubarak CAIRO, Aug 21: Egypt’s largest opposition movement, the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, urged on Sunday its supporters to vote out incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the September 7 presidential poll....
Iraq defends death penalty ahead of executions BAGHDAD, Aug 21: The Iraqi government on Sunday defended its decision to reinstate the death penalty following a United Nations appeal for Baghdad to reconsider executing three convicted felons....		Ahmadinejad blasts West, liberalism TEHRAN, Aug 21: Iran’s President Mahmood Ahmadinejad put his proposed cabinet to parliament on Sunday, lashing out at the West and liberalism and promising a government that will “promote virtue and prohibit vice.”...
Earthquake rattles Japan TOKYO, Aug 21: An earthquake registering 5.0 on the Richter scale rattled northern Japan on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, officials said....		Taliban shoot dead cleric KANADAHAR, Aug 21: Taliban insurgents on Sunday shot dead a pro-government Muslim cleric and his companion in restive southern Afghanistan, an official said....
Vietnamese villagers make way for dam SON LA (Vietnam): Lo Van Huong’s house is better than most in his poor northern Vietnamese village, with rough concrete flooring, a refrigerator, fan, a quadruple bed for the whole family and a bamboo attic....		Shooting of Brazilian haunts commissioner LONDON: The week had started well. Last Monday morning, Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s most senior police officer, stood shoulder to shoulder with Home Secretary Charles Clarke and warned Londoners that it was impossible to rule out a third terrorist attack....
Addressing Palestinian economic bottleneck GAZA CITY: The Jewish settlers are leaving the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army is following them out. But neither event is going to make Ayoub El Jabda’s oranges look any better....		Turtles take to Italian hospital LAMPEDUSA (Italy): The island hospital is small, sparsely equipped and very often the patients are so large that they have to be tipped sideways to get them to the operating table....
Drought pushes Burkina Faso herders into poverty trap DORI (Burkina Faso): Goring the air with their horns and pawing the earth with their hooves, dozens of bony cattle file into a market in Burkina Faso to be sold under the anxious eyes of their owners....		Iraq ‘Pop Idol’ offers escape from daily grind BAGHDAD: When their electricity isn’t zapped by daily power cuts, Iraqis can pretend they live in a normal country with a normal cultural life by tuning into the Iraqi version of ‘Pop Idol’....
Brunei’s sultan marries Malaysian journalist KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21: Brunei’s fabulously wealthy ruler Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has married a 26-year-old former Malaysian television journalist, making her his second wife, reports said on Sunday....		Libya to free 131 political prisoners TRIPOLI, Aug 21: Libya would free 131 political prisoners, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, who heads a foundation dedicated to improving the country’s image....