August 24, 2005	Wednesday	Rajab 18, 1426

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Attack on US centre leaves six dead in Iraq: Saddam appears in court BAQUBA, Aug 23: A suicide bomber killed a US soldier, an American contractor and four Iraqi security guards at a joint coordination centre in a town north of Baghdad on Tuesday....		Moscow to end aid to ‘revolutionary’ allies MOSCOW, Aug 23: Moscow is to stop giving economic perks to its ex-Soviet neighbours, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying on Tuesday, in a message to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova they may have to pay for their new pro-Western stance....
US links concessions to Libya with democracy WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The United States indicated on Monday that it might offer more concessions to Libya if the once pariah state moved further to address weapons, democracy and human rights concerns....		Main points of Iraq’s draft constitution BAGHDAD, Aug 23: Iraq’s draft constitution brings in a federal system of government with Islamic law as ‘a principal source of legislation’ and enshrines the principle of sharing oil wealth equitably....
US softens stand on N. Korea WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The US negotiator in talks on dismantling North Korea’s suspected atomic arms programme predicted on Tuesday the sides can overcome a key difference over Pyongyang’s right to develop peaceful nuclear power....		Howard under fire for excluding Muslim radicals from talks CANBERRA, Aug 23: Australian Prime Minister John Howard met Muslim leaders on Tuesday to try to prevent the kind of attacks that have hit other Iraq war allies, but came under fire for excluding radical groups from the talks....
China, Russia simulate naval blockade BEIJING, Aug 23: Chinese destroyers, submarines and fighter planes were coordinating on Tuesday with a Russian missile destroyer and anti-submarine vessels in ongoing war games simulating a naval blockade, state media said....		Preacher urges US to assassinate Chavez WASHINGTON, Aug 23: Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has urged the US government to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who he said was a ‘dangerous enemy’....
Sunnis face a choice: Bush DONNELLY, Aug 23: US President George Bush on Tuesday urged Iraq’s Sunnis to embrace the blueprint as the way forward. Asked about the possibility that Sunni rejection of the document would...		How the G8 lied to the world about aid LONDON: World leaders are now preparing for the millennium summit to be held in New York next month, described by the UN as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to take bold decisions”....
Spain gets first married priest MADRID: Spain’s conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy has ordained the country’s first married priest, a former Anglican minister from Zimbabwe with two grown children. Evans David Gliwitzki, 64, kissed his wife after...		No colonial hang-ups as Malays rush to learn English TAMPIN (Malaysia): It is three o’clock in the afternoon on a normal weekday in this small town, about 110 kilometres south of the national capital, and Hafsiah, 9, and her brother...
Israelis continue building houses in West Bank AZARIYA (West Bank ): On the ragged edge of this hillside Palestinian village, shopkeeper Akram abu Shamsieh gazed in the direction of Maale Adumim, the West Bank’s largest Jewish settlement, a...		Arabs fear spread of federalism in ME AMMAN: As Kurds and Shias in Iraq push for a federal constitution, fears are rising in the Arab world that the urge to create separate states could spread in countries with religious and ethnic minorities, analysts said....
UK police modify story about Brazilian LONDON: Scotland Yard acknowledged on Monday that Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a suicide bomber, had done nothing unusual before he was shot by officials after entering a London subway last month....		Japan to make first 3-D TV TOKYO: Japan is to spend millions of pounds developing the world’s first 3D virtual reality TV, hoping to change the way films and major sporting events are seen by viewers at home....