October 7, 2005	Friday	Ramazan 2, 1426

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Taliban men, warlords leading in some areas: Afghan election results KABUL, Oct 6: War-scarred Afghanistan took another step on Thursday towards forming its first parliament in more than three decades when the first provisional results from last month’s landmark vote were released....		Nato to boost contingent KABUL, Oct 6: Nato will send thousands of more troops to Afghanistan, boosting the total in the country to 15,000, the alliance’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday....
Blair warns Iran against ‘interference’ in Iraq LONDON, Oct 6: British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran against interfering in Iraq on Thursday, saying London suspected explosives used to kill British troops there may have come from the Islamic republic....		White House threatens to veto defence bill WASHINGTON, Oct 6: The White House on Thursday renewed a threat to veto a 440 billion dollar defence funding bill after the US Senate defied President George Bush by inserting anti-torture language into the legislation....
US govt accused of favouritism: Katrina contracts WASHINGTON, Oct 6: Top officials who managed US reconstruction projects in Iraq have been hired by some of the same big companies that received those contracts and which are now involved in a rush of deals to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina....		‘God told Bush’ to invade Iraq LONDON, Oct 6: US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details released on Thursday....
Post-9/11 steps ‘deterred’ immigrants SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6: The post-9/11 security measures have had a far greater impact on legal immigration to the United States than on illegal entry, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center....		CIA not to punish ex-director WASHINGTON, Oct 6: CIA Director Porter Goss has said that he will not order disciplinary reviews for the agency’s former director George Tenet and other officials who have come under fire for their performance before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001....
3 strikes foiled, says Bush WASHINGTON, Oct 6: The United States has foiled three Al Qaeda strikes on its soil since the Sept 11 attacks in 2001, President George Bush said on Thursday in a major speech....		Muslim shot dead in Lanka COLOMBO, Oct 6: A Muslim man was killed in Sri Lanka on Wednesday when unidentified men opened fire in a Muslim-dominated region. Police suspect fighters belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were behind the shooting in Kalmunei....
Wrong foreign policy affecting Britons AS BLOODSHED mounts each day in Iraq, what prospect is there that British ministers will be held accountable for the illegal invasion and occupation that triggered this carnage? If past precedents are anything to go by, not much....		‘Demolition Man’ evades police in Indonesia KUTA (Indonesia): Minutes after a car bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta last year, the Malaysian militant known as the “Demolition Man” was stopped by a traffic cop....
Palestinians trying to wean children away from war GAZA: “Freedom for Palestine!” chants 9-year-old Ahmad Abu Sharia in a Gaza Strip refugee camp, as he listens to a small radio bringing news of Israeli air strikes....		Tied up in Russian red tape? Send greetings MOSCOW: Rude, unhelpful, and often corrupt: it’s the widely held image of the Russian bureaucrat and it strikes fear into the heart of Western investors touching down in Moscow to cash in on a booming economy....
China faces shortage of planes BEIJING: Minutes before a flight packed with 50 passengers was scheduled to take off from southern China’s Guangzhou city to Beijing, blackouts twice plunged the cabin into darkness....		Diabetes drug lowers heart risk: study PARIS: Actos, a drug that is widely prescribed for Type 2 diabetes, also appears to lower the risk of dangerous cardiovascular problems among diabetics, according to a study published in the latest edition of The Lancet....