September 4, 2005	Sunday	Rajab 29, 1426

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Katrina exposes the ‘Third World’ in US WASHINGTON: As thousands of people in New Orleans spend day and night without food, water or shelter, the news media and, doubtless, millions of ordinary citizens are wondering how state and...		Oil exports from Kirkuk halted after bomb blast: 19 policemen shot dead KIRKUK, Sept 3: All exports of Iraq’s Kirkuk crude oil through a major pipeline to Ceyhan on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast were stopped on Saturday after a bomb blast set the pipeline on fire, an oil ministry source said....
Muslim help sought to improve US image WASHINGTON, Sept 3: The top US official in charge of improving America’s image abroad has sought assistance from the Muslim community, despite growing criticism by American Muslims of some aspects of the ‘war on terror’....		Why did help take so long to arrive ‘IT IS incredible, the government had no evacuation plan ... the first power in the world and it left its own population adrift.” It will be particularly galling that the man...
Turkey threatens to abandon EU bid: Only full membership acceptable TURKEY has threatened to abandon “for good” its 40-year dream of joining the European Union if it is offered anything less than full membership. As the EU paved the way for...		Bush-Hu meeting called off WASHINGTON, Sept 3: President George Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao have agreed to call off talks planned here for next week in light of the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said on Saturday....
Racism charges hurled at Bush over disaster WASHINGTON, Sept 3: The ever-sensitive question of race in the United States has exploded into a furious debate over the government’s handling of the disaster unfolding in New Orleans....		Bush does not care about blacks: artist WASHINGTON, Sept 3: US hip-hop artist Kanye West accused President George Bush of not caring about black people on a live television fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina....
300 airmen sent back from Iraq, Afghanistan DOHA, Sept 3: Three hundred US airmen deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan have begun returning to Mississippi to help their families cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a spokesman for US Central Command Air Forces said on Saturday....		5 militants killed in Syria clashes DAMASCUS, Sept 3: Five members of a militant were killed on Friday in clashes with Syrian security forces who raided their village hideout. “Anti-terrorist forces on Friday evening entered in force...
Two Japanese, Briton die in Afghanistan KABUL, Sept 3: Two missing Japanese tourists and a British engineer were confirmed dead in Afghanistan on Saturday. Doctors matched the dental records with those of two bodies found earlier this week, officials said....		Chirac in hospital after vision problem PARIS, Sept 3: French President Jacques Chirac, 72, was hospitalized after suffering a minor vision problem that doctors said had been caused by a ‘vascular incident’, the main military hospital in Paris said on Saturday....
BD troops on alert along Assam border DHAKA, Sept 3: The government of Bangladesh on Friday enforced a red alert along the Chittagong Hill Tracts’ frontier with India to check an expected infiltration of activists of the United...		Lanka’s Muslim party seeks autonomous unit COLOMBO, Sept 3: The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has sought an assurance from the ruling party and the opposition that the community would be given an autonomous Muslim-majority administrative unit in the LTTE-dominated Eastern Province....
Slavery still prevalent in many parts of Niger NIAMEY (Niger ): When Ilguilas Weila left his village at age 7 to go to school in a distant town in southern Niger, other children’s parents asked a question that burned...		Muslim socialite splits Italian right ROME: A Muslim model with political ambitions is prompting Italians to confront the issue of how ready they are to let immigrants integrate into their society....
Global warming is dictator’s legacy A BUNGLED attempt to turn swaths of Indonesian peat swamps into rice plantations threatens to increase global warming on a massive scale, a scientist said. Susan Page, a geography researcher at...		Gaza begins first school year free of occupation GAZA CITY: Palestinian children started their school year on Saturday hoping that Israel’s withdrawal from the war-weary Gaza Strip meant they were free of the military raids that made their student days a nightmare....