September 5, 2005	Monday	Rajab 30, 1426

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Thousands killed, admits US govt: Bodies’ collection begins WASHINGTON, Sept 4: A top US federal official admitted for the first time on Sunday that thousands of people died in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the southern United States....		Saddam awaits tough trial BAGHDAD, Sept 4: For decades he ruled with an iron fist, his image ominipresent and his very name a source of fear. But ousted military dictator Saddam Hussein is now a...
Iraq hits out at Arab response to stampede BAGHDAD, Sept 4: Iraq’s parliament criticized fellow Arab states on Sunday for failing to mourn 1,000 Shia pilgrims crushed in Baghdad last week, while some had found time — and money — to help Americans hit by Hurricane Katrina....		Nine killed in Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Sept 4: A candidate in Afghanistan’s Sept 18 elections was killed on Sunday when he stepped on a landmine outside his home, the second candidate to die violently in two days, police said....
S. Arabia has 9,000 Aids cases: official RIYADH, Sept 4: Saudi Arabia had almost 9,000 cases of HIV/Aids at the end of last year. Dr Khaled Mirghalani, an official at the health ministry, said of the 8,919 cases...		Former PM of Nepal detained KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Former Nepali Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala was detained on Sunday along with dozens of other political activists when police used tear gas to disperse a crowd at a pro-democracy demonstration, witnesses said....
Moammar Qadhafi’s makeover: from US foe to its ally LONDON: As it struggles to combat terrorist networks, the Bush administration quietly has built an intelligence alliance with Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi, a onetime bitter enemy the United States had tried for years to isolate, topple or kill....		Tent protest: icon or eyesore?: Aboriginal issues CANBERRA: The rundown aboriginal protest embassy in the centre of Canberra’s political district is an eyesore and that’s exactly how the inhabitants like it. “It sits there in silence, but it’s...
Europeans find petrol prices taxing PARIS: As they grapple with soaring petrol prices in France, Serge Poitevieau, a cafe owner, and Frederique Usher, an unemployed but well-heeled young woman, have dramatically different perspectives and radically different solutions....		S. Africa’s SABC battles image of state mouthpiece JOHANNESBURG: Things certainly have changed at South Africa’s public broadcaster, once the mouthpiece of the apartheid government. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) now runs stories that are highly critical of...
Mira Nair’s lab gives boast to film industry in east Africa KAMPALA: Geresom A. G. Musamali had never been to a cinema before he was chosen to join an unprecedented screenwriting course at a house on a hill overlooking the Ugandan edge of Lake Victoria....		Death of US justice sets stage for new battle WASHINGTON: William Rehnquist, chief justice and a leading conservative voice on the US Supreme Court, died late on Saturday from thyroid cancer, setting the stage for a new political battle for President George W....
Hurricane shatters world view of US power LONDON: People around the world cannot believe what they’re seeing. From Argentina to Zimbabwe, front page photos of the dead and desperate in New Orleans, almost all of them poor and black, have sickened them and shaken assumptions about American might....