August 30, 2005	Tuesday	Rajab 24, 1426

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Israel to quit more WB settlements, says Sharon JERUSALEM, Aug 29: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that Israel would not hold onto all of its West Bank settlements, a week after overseeing the historic pullout of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip....		Iraq’s Sunni party calls for changes in charter BAGHDAD, Aug 29: One of Iraq’s biggest Sunni parties said on Monday that it might back the country’s constitution, but it urged changes to a text agreed by the Shia-dominated parliament....
Army official demoted for disputing Halliburton deal WASHINGTON, Aug 29: A top US Army contracting official who criticized a large, non-competitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq, has been demoted for what the Army called poor job performance, the New York Times said on Monday....		US town spared hurricane devastation NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29: Hurricane Katrina tore into Louisiana on Monday, although the massive storm appeared to spare low-lying New Orleans a feared deathblow and delivered much of its force to neighbouring Mississippi and Alabama....
100 bldgs being demolished in Dhaka DHAKA, Aug 29: Bangladesh work crews on Monday began bulldozing more than 100 high-rise buildings in Dhaka after authorities said they posed a danger to planes using the international airport. ...		‘Dirty bomb’ material found in Asia: paper SYDNEY, Aug 29: Australian nuclear experts working to prevent a ‘dirty bomb’ attack by terrorists have found large unsecured sources of dangerous radioactive material in Southeast Asia, a report said on Monday....
Kabul has cut opium output: UN KABUL, Aug 29: Afghanistan has reduced the production and cultivation of opium for the first time since the Taliban government fell in 2001, the United Nations counter-narcotics chief said on Monday....		Belgium to try 13 Muslims BRUSSELS, Aug 29: A Belgian court on Monday ordered 13 alleged militants suspected of indirect links with terror attacks in Casablanca and Madrid to go on trial here later this year, a spokesman said....
Nine airlines blacklisted BRUSSELS, Aug 29: Belgium and France have barred nine airlines from landing at their airports on safety grounds, officials said. International airline safety has become a more sensitive issue than usual...		Peanut paste helps fight Africa hunger MALAUNAY (France): Michel Lescanne lifts the lid of a giant mixer that stirs peanut paste, sugar and a special vitamin mix into a sticky cream at his small village factory in northern France....
ME peace at the mercy of local actors FOR all the attention and resources the Bush administration has poured into the Middle East, the outcome of its two most critical initiatives is increasingly vulnerable to the sectarian passions, tumultuous...		Fallujah Sunnis mobilize to defeat constitution FALLUJAH: As the Sunni tribal chiefs file into the bullet-scarred headquarters of the US-led forces in the centre of Fallujah, it is immediately clear what they came to talk about....
Italian tourist island is magnet for immigrants LAMPEDUSA (Italy): “Do you know where you are? Lampedusa — it’s a little, little island.” Not the usual greeting to tourists at Italy’s most southern point, but the 123 people crouched on the dockside in the dark are not tourists....		Palestinians seek unity to free Arab lands BEIRUT: Palestinian factions and civilians raised assault rifles and danced in the streets at refugee camps in Lebanon recently after Israeli settlers completed their pullout from their settlements in the Gaza Strip....
Beslan fears its tragedy will not be Russia’s last BESLAN: If there is one emotion stronger than Beslan’s grief, it is the town’s fear that its sacrifice was in vain, that Russia has failed to learn from its loss and is wide open to another such tragedy....		13 bodies found FALLUJAH: Iraqi police said on Monday they had found 13 bodies in three western towns, but they had no details of who they were or how they had died....