October 8, 2005	Saturday	Ramazan 3, 1426

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200 on hunger strike at Guantanamo: ICRC terms situation serious GENEVA, Oct 7: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday the situation was serious inside the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp, where a number of prisoners are on hunger strike....		White House lists 10 ‘foiled Al Qaeda plots’ WASHINGTON, Oct 7: President George Bush on Thursday said the United States and its partners had foiled at least 10 ‘serious’ Al Qaeda plots since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, plus...
US Congress holds hearing on India’s Dalits WASHINGTON, Oct 7: The US Congress held an unprecedented hearing on Thursday on India’s Dalits, once known as the ‘untouchables’, describing it as a key human rights issue....		Iran fears an emboldened IAEA after Nobel prize TEHRAN, Oct 7: The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN atomic watchdog and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei has left Iran fearful of facing intensified pressure over its nuclear programme....
Israel hails Nobel choice as warning to Iran PARIS, Oct 7: World leaders hailed Friday’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN nuclear watchdog and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei. Even Israel, which neither admits nor denies having nuclear weapons, welcomed the Nobel committee’s decision....		IAEA helps spread of N-arms: Greenpeace PARIS, Oct 7: Green activists voiced outrage after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the UN watchdog had unwittingly helped the spread of atomic arms by promoting civilian nuclear power....
2 sets of Indian twins await operation NEW DELHI, Oct 7: The US neurosurgeon who hopes to separate two Indian girls who are joined at the head is also willing to operate on a second set of Siamese twins from southern India, a hospital official said on Friday....		Two jailed for anti-Muslim remarks SINGAPORE, Oct 7: Two ethnic Chinese men on Friday became the first bloggers in multi-racial Singapore to be punished under the city-state’s tough anti-sedition legislation for posting anti-Muslim remarks on the Internet....
Bali plotter in Philippines, say Moros ZAMBOANGA (Philippines), Oct 7: Indonesian militant Dulmatin, who has a 10 million dollar US bounty on his head, is hiding out in the Philippines, a spokesman for a separatist group said on Friday....		Don’t be defeatist: the power of protest is alive LONDON: George Monbiot in one of his columns in the Guardian looked at some of the wide range of repressive measures increasingly being used to undermine the public’s right to protest....
White House losing ground: Prisoner treatment WASHINGTON: Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the US Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the ‘humane’ treatment...		Development: voluntary work as industry BANGKOK: In the Philippines, non-profit and volunteer organizations are a 1.2 billion US dollar industry, with expenditures reaching 1.5 per cent of GDP. They employ five times more people than huge...
As Turkey reaches out, Kurdish politicians look back DIYARBAKIR (Turkey): Despite a dramatic overture from Turkey’s prime minister and deep fatigue among minority Kurds weary of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands, Kurdish politics remains dominated by men more acquainted with conflict than with conciliation....		The ‘hard-to-reach’ communities of UK LONDON: Twenty years ago I was employed as a youth worker on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London, when it erupted over the death of Cynthia Jarrett during a police raid....
UK hackers jailed in worm plot LONDON: Two British hackers were jailed on Friday for helping to spread a computer worm which affected thousands of machines around the world, including some at the US Department of Defence....		Final status talks on Kosovo UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended to the Security Council on Friday that international talks begin on whether the province of Kosovo should be given independence or remain a part of Serbia....
Lankan woman in suicide attempt COLOMBO: Doctors failed to save the life of a woman who set herself ablaze in the compound of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader’s private residence....		Lankan elections COLOMBO: The two main contenders for Sri Lanka’s presidency, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Friday filed nomination papers for the Nov 17 elections....