September 16, 2005	Friday	Sha'aban 11, 1426

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

Qorei to face no-trust motion: Chaos in Gaza RAMALLAH, Sept 15: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faced a brewing political crisis on Thursday as he scrambled to quell chaos in Gaza following Israel’s withdrawal from the territory....		Israeli court declares barrier legal JERUSALEM, Sept 15: Israel’s top court on Thursday upheld the government’s legal right to build a barrier through occupied West Bank land, rejecting a World Court ruling that it violated international law and should be torn down....
Onus now on Palestinians, says Sharon UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that it was now the turn of the Palestinians to prove they want peace following Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip....		Power sought to detain suspects without charge: British govt proposes fresh anti-terror steps LONDON, Sept 15: Britain’s interior minister tried to rally support on Thursday for a raft of new anti-terror laws, including a controversial plan to hold security suspects for up to three months without charge....
Chandrika moots federal structure NEW YORK, Sept 15: Sri Lanka’s President Chandrika Kumaratunga has pledged to turn her embattled republic into a federal state and share power with minority Tamils in a bid to end...		Bush launches ‘international partnership’ to fight bird flu UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: President George Bush on Wednesday launched what he called a ‘new international partnership’ aimed at preventing avian influenza and other new strains of flu from becoming a murderous, global pandemic....
Guardian goes ‘tabloid’ LONDON, Sept 15: In a departure from its 184-year history, The Guardian, one of UK’s most respected newspaper, was launched in the tabloid format on Monday....		No compromise with terror: Indian PM UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: India will never compromise with ‘cross-border terrorism’ in Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an address to the UN summit on Thursday....
Villagers evacuated as oil well catches fire GUWAHATI, Sept 15: Hundreds of firefighters Thursday battled to control a towering blaze at a damaged oil well in northeast India as some 3,000 panicky villagers were evacuated from the danger zone....		Charity accused of training militants in BD DHAKA, Sept 15: Bangladesh’s intelligence agencies have accused an outlawed charity of having trained militants in the manufacture and use of bombs. In separate reports to the home ministry, two intelligence...
Mice stem cells used to repair sheep hearts LONDON, Sept 15: Embryonic stem cell research moved a step forward this week as French scientists reported they had used master cells from mice to repair heart damage in sheep....		Bush’s rating at record low WASHINGTON, Sept 15: President George Bush’s approval rating continued its downward spiral in two polls out on Thursday, reaching new lows on his performance in the ‘war on terror’ and Iraq, and on handling the Hurricane Katrina aftermath....
Merkel stands good chance of sitting at the chancellor’s desk in Berlin OSNABRUECK (Germany): The woman who wants to rule Germany stepped to a microphone on the packed main square of this industrial city and reminded the crowd of the nation’s woes....		The survival of the richest LONDON: As a consequence of the catastrophe that occurred in New Orleans, people in the US and throughout the world have started to re-examine the record of the present leaders of the first world superpower....
The routine of atrocity SEATTLE: Waking from an unpleasant dream before 5am, not by first light finding a crack in the drapes, for it’s 15 minutes or so too early for that, the roused sleeper’s hand moves on an instinctive tour of the bedside table....		Soaring oil prices fuel smuggling in Cambodia PHOUM KOMPONG (Cambodia) As night falls over the watery wastes of the Cambodia-Vietnam border, the petrol people start their day. Rainy season floods give the Mekong Delta smugglers myriad routes through...
— and of the poorest MORUNGOLE (Uganda): After Betty Lokol’s two-year-old son died of hunger, she was ready to do whatever the village witch-doctor said. He advised the 25-year-old Ugandan mother to smear ochre mud on her forehead and on her three surviving children....		Balancing between Syria and West BEIRUT: The new Lebanese government is undergoing a series of internal and external tests during the current transitional period. No sooner do they finish one test then they are faced with another....