September 2, 2005	Friday	Rajab 27, 1426

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

Evacuation stopped after lawlessness: Thousands died in US storm: senator NEW ORLEANS, Sept 1: Authorities suspended an evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday after a shooting at a military helicopter and US President George Bush urged ‘zero tolerance’ for lawlessness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....		‘It’s the Third World’ BATON ROUGE, Sept 1: Stretched relief services flailed away at a vast refugee crisis developing, unbelievably, within US borders, following a human exodus from Hurricane Katrina. Scenes emerged of desperation, deprivation and human agony, which Americans are used to seeing only on their television screens from the world’s hotspots...
US urged to review Kyoto stand BERLIN, Sept 1: A German conservative policymaker said on Thursday climate change had played a role in Hurricane Katrina and urged the US to join other nations in the Kyoto treaty,...		Bush under fire over Katrina response WASHINGTON, Sept 1: President George Bush, already under fire over the invasion of Iraq, tried on Thursday to dismiss criticism of his response to Hurricane Katrina as political grandstanding that undermines national unity....
EU warns Iran could be hauled before UN NEWPORT (Wales), Sept 1: The European Union warned on Thursday that it may have to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear plans after what it claimed Tehran had breached an accord with the European bloc....		Thai Muslims flee unrest to Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK, Sept 1: About 130 Muslims have abandoned their homes in Thailand’s troubled south, where suspected separatist militants killed a Muslim teacher and a Buddhist policeman on Thursday, to seek refuge in Malaysia....
Stench of death hangs over Iraq bridge BAGHDAD, Sept 1: The stench of death hovered over a Baghdad bridge on Thursday as bodies continued to surface of people who had fallen to a watery end in the Tigris River during a stampede of Shia pilgrims....		Turkey rejects EU plea on Cyprus ANKARA, Sept 1: Turkey defied on Thursday mounting European Union pressure to open its ports and airports to Cypriot ships and planes, saying they would remain closed despite the imminent start of Ankara’s EU entry talks....
UK engineer, interpreter kidnapped KABUL, Sept 1: A British engineer and his Afghan interpreter were kidnapped when gunmen attacked a convoy in western Afghanistan and killed three police escorts, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday....		600,000 evacuated in China SHANGHAI, Sept 1: China evacuated nearly 600,000 people as powerful Typhoon Talim slammed into the eastern coast on Thursday after barrelling across Taiwan, where it left two dead and dozens injured....
Al Qaeda says it carried out London attacks DUBAI, Sept 1: Al Jazeera television on Thursday aired snippets of a video tape attributed to Al Qaeda, in which it said the network’s number two Ayman al Zawahiri claims responsibility for the July 7 London bombings....		Rotblat dies at 96 LONDON, Sept 1: Joseph Rotblat, a scientist who worked on the atomic bomb but went on to win the Nobel peace prize as a leading campaigner against nuclear weapons, has died at the age of 96, his organisation said on Thursday....
Actress reveals family’s ordeal VENICE, Sept 1: American actress Patricia Clarkson has revealed her private family anguish after Hurricane Katrina devastated her home city of New Orleans, where her politician mother has remained working, holed up in a city hotel....		Che’s family plans to fight use of photo HAVANA: With his picture on rock band posters and baseball caps, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is firmly entrenched in the capitalist consumer society that he died fighting to overturn....
Egypt’s poor wait for benefits of growth CAIRO: Egypt’s economy is growing at its fastest pace in years, exports are surging and the bourse is booming, but there is little sign yet of an economic revival in the poor suburbs and crowded slums of the capital....		Scepticism envelops carve-up of Congo firms KINSHASA: When new heads were appointed to Congo’s state-owned businesses, cartoonists in the crippled central African country went into overdrive, churning out caricatures of greedy politicians carving up cakes....
First Shakespeare play in 25 years delights Afghans KABUL: Afghanistan’s first public performance of a Shakespeare play in a quarter-century raised delighted laughter from a packed house this week, with most of the audience having never seen live theatre before — much less men and women acting together....		‘Europe’s last dictatorship’ spurns reform LONDON: Hopes that Belarus, dubbed ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’ by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, would be the next domino to fall following pro-democracy revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine collided with reality this week....
Ancient and modern man lived at the same time: study LONDON: Did Neanderthals and the first ancestors of modern man ever meet? The argument has raged among archaeologists and palaeontologists for decades. Now a group of scientists claim to have proof...