August 25, 2005	Thursday	Rajab 19, 1426

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Mahmood promises ‘innovations’ to solve row: Tehran resumes N-fuel work; EU calls off talks TEHRAN, Aug 24: Iran wants negotiations over its nuclear programme to continue and is finalizing ‘innovations’ to resolve the dispute, President Mahmood Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday....		Guerillas attack police posts in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Aug 24: Dozens of guerillas armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked police checkpoints in western Baghdad on Wednesday in some of the heaviest street fighting the capital has seen in months....
Five killed in Najaf clash BAGHDAD, Aug 24: Violence erupted in Najaf on Wednesday as supporters of radical Shia leader Moqtada Sadr clashed with locals, killing five people, as efforts to push through Iraq’s constitution received a boost from the Kurdish parliament....		‘Radical’ Muslims told to leave Australia SYDNEY, Aug 24: Muslims who want to live under the Shariat were told on Wednesday to leave Australia. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia...
Manipuris plead for curbs on Indian army ANGTHA (India): Sanamacha’s mother collapses in tears as she strokes and clutches a photograph of her youngest son, sitting on the grass in his school uniform....		Need for girls’ education felt but schools are missing ISLAMABAD: Ghazala Bibi, 21, considers herself privileged to be studying for a bachelors degree even though she has to do it privately and from her home, a two-hour drive into the hills north-east of the national capital....
Israeli army to quit Gaza next month JERUSALEM, Aug 24: Israel said on Wednesday all its soldiers would be out of the Gaza Strip within a month, ending four decades of occupation after the historic pullout of Jewish settlers from the Palestinian territory....		US dismisses call to murder Chavez WASHINGTON, Aug 24: The Bush administration on Wednesday distanced itself from Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson saying that his call for assassinating Venezuelan president does not reflect official US policy....
London mayor applies ‘Mandela test’ to terror crackdown LONDON, Aug 24: London Mayor Ken Livingstone said he would apply a so-called ‘Nelson Mandela test’ to new British proposals announced on Wednesday to crack down on hardliners after last month’s deadly bombings....		Hundreds stranded as rivers burst banks in Europe BERNE, Aug 24: Rescue helicopters plucked stranded Swiss from roofs and balconies on Wednesday as rising water and strong currents prevented boats reaching homes in parts of Switzerland and more rain was forecast in coming days....
Lawmakers reject Iran president’s nominees TEHRAN, Aug 24: Iran’s parliament on Wednesday rocked President Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s fledgling government by rejecting four of his cabinet nominees, including the proposed new oil minister for OPEC’s second-largest crude producer....		41 die as Peru jet crashes in jungle LIMA, Aug 24: Forty-one people were killed and 59 escaped alive after a Peruvian passenger jet crashed during a severe storm in Peru’s northeastern jungle on Tuesday....
Four more suspects arrested in BD DHAKA, Aug 24: The law-enforcing agencies investigating last week’s blasts detained four more people at the Zia International Airport on Wednesday. Police said the suspects, whose identities were not disclosed, were...		11 Taliban killed KANDAHAR, Aug 24: Eleven suspected Taliban fighters, including a local commander, died in two separate raids by US and Afghan troops on Wednesday. Five Taliban were killed and two arrested during an operation in Chora district of strife-torn Uruzgan province.—AFP...
Rajasthan villagers accuse soft drink giant of guzzling water NEW DELHI: Beverage giant Coca Cola’s cup of woe never runs dry in India. The company has picked up yet another row with local populations over groundwater mining, this time in the largely desert state of western Rajasthan....		Mukhtaran hails LB polls MEERWALA: Last week, the women of Meerwala village infamous for a gang rape did something that gave the victim, Mukhtaran Mai, hope for the future....
Talks with Tigers greeted with scepticism COLOMBO: Although the Sri Lankan government and the separatist militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have agreed to hold direct talks in the wake of the Aug 12 assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, analysts are urging caution....		India Post tries to better image BANGALORE: The world’s biggest postal network, India Post, has sought the help of global consultants to spruce up the old-fashioned image of the 150-year-old organisation and become more competitive....
Tribal Jews determined to emigrate to Israel AIZAWL (India): Tribal Jews in India’s remote northeast said on Tuesday they would press ahead with their plans to emigrate to Israel despite the closure of their intended settlement in the Gaza Strip....		Political fatwa banned LUCKNOW: An influential Muslim seminary has said clerics should not issue religious edicts on political issues. The statement came nearly a week after one of the school’s own clerics triggered a...