September 26, 2005	Monday	Sha'aban 21, 1426

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Insurgency worse than anticipated, says Blair: Situation in Iraq BRIGHTON, Sept 25: Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday he was surprised by the ferocity of the insurgency in Iraq, but vowed to keep British troops there until Iraqi security forces could fend for themselves....		Iran threatens to end spot checks of N-sites TEHRAN, Sept 25: Iran threatened on Sunday to halt spot checks of its nuclear sites after the UN watchdog passed a resolution requiring Tehran to be reported to the Security Council over its atomic plans....
India, China to draft plan to end border row NEW DELHI, Sept 25: Asian giants India and China enter the toughest leg of their attempts to settle a decades-old border row as envoys of the two countries hold talks this...		N. Korea blasts draft US policy SEOUL, Sept 25: North Korea on Sunday denounced draft US military policy on the use of nuclear weapons and vowed “powerful” retaliation if it suffered a nuclear attack....
Indian kills himself, wife 4 children in UAE DUBAI, Sept 25: An Indian man slit the throats of his wife and four children, the youngest an 8-month-old baby, before killing himself in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah, a UAE newspaper said on Sunday....		Iraqi Al Qaeda claims suicide attack DUBAI, Sept 25: Iraq’s Al Qaeda wing said it had carried out Sunday’s suicide car bombing that killed 13 Iraqi police commandos, according to an Internet statement....
Azerbaijan police break up protest BAKU, Sept 25: Police in Azerbaijan on Sunday broke up a peaceful demonstration demanding free parliamentary elections and attacked a well-known opposition leader smashing the windows of his car....		US mulls military response to disasters SAN ANTONIO (Texas), Sept 25: US President George W. Bush, at a military briefing on Hurricane Rita, suggested on Sunday the armed forces should take over all government response efforts to some major natural disasters....
Journalist hurt in bomb blast BEIRUT, Sept 25: A prominent Lebanese Christian television journalist was seriously wounded on Sunday as an explosion ripped apart her car, in the latest in a string of bomb attacks in Lebanon....		Spin doctors on front lines BAGHDAD: It was the day after a particularly gruesome car bombing in downtown Baghdad, and Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba was selling optimism. At a news briefing in the fortified Green...
Delhi corrals its cows NEW DELHI: Letting tens of thousands of cows scavenge for garbage in the polluted streets of India’s capital is, to many Hindus, ‘no way to treat a sacred animal’....		Chernobyl report disappoints victims KIEV (Ukraine): When Anatole Hrytsak collapsed last October while out buying bread and two weeks later had both of his legs amputated at the knees, he was certain that the night of April 26, 1986, had finally caught up with him....
Second-hand clothes — a boon for Kenyans NAIROBI: Drayton Maina looks sharp behind the wheel of his car in a grey suit, colourful tie and shiny leather shoes....		US toxic lake poses serious risk BUTTE (Montana): Long before Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans with what officials describe as a dangerous toxic soup, Montana’s mining capital struggled to deal with a massive watery hazard....
Doctors fleeing Iraq’s violence BAGHDAD: One of Iraq’s most precious resources — doctors — are fleeing the country in increasing numbers, scared off by persistent violence and drawn to safer, better paying jobs abroad, officials say....		Tsunami victims get training, await tourists KHAO LAK (Thailand): Most hotels in Thailand’s tsunami-shattered Khao Lak beach resort are closed, the sea is filled with junk, but young Thais are being trained in tourism trades for when better times return....