September 6, 2005	Tuesday	Shaban 01, 1426

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Israeli PM steps in to placate Palestinians: Plan for 3,000 homes JERUSALEM, Sept 5: Israel moved swiftly to quash a new row over its settlements on Monday, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office slapping down a minister who announced plans to build thousands of homes in the West Bank....		No plain sailing for Mubarak even if he wins election CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his ruling party have had a rough nine months since the first group of Egyptians came out on the streets shouting “Enough” to 24 years of authoritarian government....
Tragedy belies claims of equal opportunity: US hurricane ‘STUFF happens,” said the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, when called to respond to the looting taking place in Baghdad after the American invasion. “But in terms of what’s going on...		Bird lovers doubt origin of flu HONG KONG: Two Asia-based British ornithologists are ruffling feathers in the international health community over an issue that threatens not only their beloved birds, but also human beings: avian influenza....
Norway party warns voters of ‘dangerous Africans’ OSLO: The masked man in the picture aims a shotgun at the reader. “This man is of foreign origin!” says the text underneath. “It’s dangerous and a direct attack on us,”...		Sunni who died saving Shias hailed as hero BAGHDAD: A Sunni Arab teenager who died saving Shias during last week’s stampede in Baghdad, has been hailed as a hero whose sacrifice should unify Iraq....
Wreckage, bodies line Indonesian city’s street MEDAN, Sept 5: Burned bodies lay strewn among the scorched and mangled wreckage of the Mandala Airlines plane which crashed on Monday in a busy avenue in the Indonesian city of Medan, witnesses said....		Police urge residents to leave New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, Sept 5: Police on Monday urged the people of New Orleans deluged by Hurricane Katrina to leave the city, warning those who refused that they had powers to force their evacuation....
Russia opposes referral of Iran issue to UN MOSCOW, Sept 5: Russia said on Monday it opposed reporting Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, as signs emerged that European support for such a measure could be waning....		Hospitals in Tokyo get bomb threats TOKYO, Sept 5: Eleven university hospitals in Tokyo are on alert after receiving bomb threats in the run-up to Japan’s September 11 election, local media reported on Monday....
Encephalitis claims 480 lives in India LUCKNOW, Sept 5: The cries of wailing mothers filled hospital wards in northern India as the death toll from a Japanese encephalitis outbreak neared 480 on Monday....		3 die after explosion in Gaza GAZA, Sept 5: A huge explosion on Monday killed at least three people and destroyed three houses in a Gaza City suburb known as a Palestinian militant stronghold....
13 Taliban killed in raid KANDAHAR, Sept 5: Afghan and US forces searching for a kidnapped election candidate have killed 13 suspected rebels and arrested 44 others in a raid on a Taliban hideout, local officials said on Monday....		9 die as ’copter drops block on cable-car VIENNA, Sept 5: Nine people were killed and several others injured on Monday when a helicopter accidentally dropped a massive concrete block, which sent a cable-car crashing into a mountain in the Austrian Alps....
Paris fire: girls confess to arson PARIS, Sept 5: Three teenage girls have confessed to starting a fire in a Paris apartment block which killed 16 people over the weekend, police said on Monday....		Iraq’s interior ministry comes under attack BAGHDAD, Sept 5: Up to 30 gunmen in 10 cars fired on Iraq’s interior ministry at dawn on Monday, killing two policemen and wounding five, ministry sources said, in what appeared a carefully coordinated attack on a sensitive target....