August 26, 2005	Friday	Rajab 20, 1426

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EU3 initiate move for early IAEA meeting: Iran’s nuclear plan VIENNA, Aug 25: France, Britain and Germany are preparing to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog’s governing board to send Tehran to the Security Council for possible sanctions, diplomats said on Thursday....		Dhaka goes ahead with Saarc preparation DHAKA, Aug 25: The government of Khaleda Zia is going ahead with its preparations to hold the twice postponed 13th Saarc summit scheduled for November 12 and 13, brushing aside that...
4 Iraqi ‘terrorists’ were treated in hostage deal: Italian Red Cross’s revelation ROME, Aug 25: The Italian Red Cross treated ‘four presumed Iraqi terrorists’ at its Baghdad hospital in order to secure last year’s release of two kidnapped Italian aid workers, a senior Red Cross official was quoted as saying on Thursday....		Iraq is America’s Boer war STANFORD: If you want to know what London was like in 1905, come to Washington in 2005. Imperial gravitas and massive self-importance. That sense of being the centre of the world,...
British police shed light on bomber’s ‘missing hour’ LONDON, Aug 25: As British police probe the final hour of one of the four London bombers, reports on Thursday claimed he ate a snack at a McDonald’s and left frantic phone messages for his accomplices before blowing himself up....		Singh was forced to convert: HR group WASHINGTON, Aug 25: A North American human rights group has claimed that Sikh convict Manjit Singh was forced in Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore, to convert to Islam....
Colombia helping Afghans fight drug trafficking WASHINGTON, Aug 25: The US Senate has arranged for Colombia to help Afghanistan fight drug trafficking. The two countries were brought together in the drug wars by House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J....		Ingushetia head hurt in attack, guard dies VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia), Aug 25: The head of the regional administration in Russia’s Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya, was injured in an attack on Thursday that killed one of his bodyguards, Russian officials said....
US govt weighed nuking China: tape BOSTON, Aug 25: Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons....		Hackers probe Pentagon websites: report WASHINGTON, Aug 25: US Defence Department websites are probed hundreds of times a day by hackers, but so far no classified site is known to have been penetrated by hackers, a spokesman said on Thursday....
New exhibit at London Zoo — humans LONDON, Aug 25: London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition on Thursday — eight humans prowling around the place. The ‘Human Zoo’ is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolick throughout the bank holiday weekend....		UK parents lose right-to-life appeal for baby LONDON, Aug 25: The parents of gravely ill baby Charlotte Wyatt lost their latest court appeal on Thursday in their battle to force doctors to do all they can to keep their daughter alive....
Silver-bullet solutions obscure young Muslim voices THOUGH the headlines change daily, in the aftermath of last month’s attacks one question remains constant: how can we prevent the atrocities reccurring? Currently, the spotlight falls on young British Muslims,...		Fatwas spur debate on Islam in Indonesia JAKARTA: Ever since Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority, the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) issued eleven fatwas or edicts against liberal Islam, a fierce debate has been raging in the world’s most populous Muslim nation on what constitutes an Islamic society....
Beslan will never forget its school tragedy BESLAN (Russia): Little Alyona Tskayeva glances at the picture of her dead mother and sister then looks around for something more interesting. Her grandmother, Klara Gasinova, puts it back on the...		Walesa feels ‘Poland is safe now’ GDANSK (Poland): It was 6 a.m. and Lech Walesa was late for an appointment with history. He was supposed to be at the Gdansk shipyard, rallying workers to go on strike and defy Poland’s Soviet-controlled communist government....
Sufism is a uniting force in Iraq SULAIMANIYA: Ahmed Jassem, a Shia from Iraq’s holy city of Kerbala, sticks knives into the bodies of his mostly Sunni followers. They say they feel no pain, standing silently as the blades pierce their skin....		Malaysia agonizes over race policy LENGGENG (Malaysia): For decades, Yeow Kim Kin and his fellow ethnic Chinese have been the engine of the Malaysian economy. Born in China, 64-year-old Yeow has been running his grocery shop...