October 11, 2005	Tuesday	Ramzan 6, 1426

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Merkel set to become Germany’s first woman chancellor BERLIN, Oct 10: Conservative Angela Merkel will become Germany’s first woman chancellor under a deal agreed on Monday that forces Gerhard Schroeder out of power, but gives his party great influence over the pace of economic reform....		AL convoy ambushed in Iraq BAGHDAD, Oct 10: Two Iraqi security guards were killed on Monday when gunmen ambushed an Arab League delegation with anti-tank rockets and heavy machineguns amid sharp criticism of the pan-Arab group over its role in Iraq....
Hope is fading for remote areas: UN ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: Veteran UN relief experts say there is little hope of those still trapped under the rubble of their earthquake-flattened houses in remote areas surviving until rescuers can reach them....		Tremor rumours spread panic SRINAGAR, Oct 10: Thousands of panicked people in occupied Kashmir fled their homes in darkness on Monday after mosques announced that huge new tremors were to hit the region....
Pakistanis desperate to reach home KUWAIT CITY: As he rushes to fly back home, Mohammad Azam prays desperately to God that his two sons have not died under the rubble of their school in Balakot....		No tools, no roads, little hope in Lamnian ISLAMABAD: In the remote quake-hit mountain village of Lamnian, most homes have been destroyed, there are no tools to sift through the rubble and residents are busy burying the dead....
Carpet-bombed towns ABOARD A MILITARY HELICOPTER: Seen from the air, whole towns in northern Pakistan look as if they have been carpet bombed. The military helicopter flew low over the areas worst hit...		A village of the homeless DACHI (India): Porter Abdur Rashid worked hard for years to build a modest mud and stone house for his family of 10 in occupied Kashmir. Now, he is faced with what...
London proposes ban on 15 Muslim bodies: Pakistani groups included in list LONDON, Oct 10: The British government on Monday published a list of 15 alleged ‘terror’ groups it has asked parliament to ban as part of a crackdown following the July bombings in London....		Capitalism causes disasters: Chavez CARACAS, Oct 10: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blamed global capitalism for Saturday’s earthquake in South Asia as well as for mudslides that have struck Central America and Mexico....
Nobel Prize for two gametheorists STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: Robert J. Aumann, an Israeli-US citizen, and American Thomas C. Schelling on Monday won the 2005 Nobel Economics Prize for using game theory to explain conflict resolution, the Nobel jury said....		Aid offer could help peace: analysts NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The announcement that Pakistan had accepted an offer of aid from India could help the peace process between the two countries, analysts in both countries said....
Team to assess damage at Srinagar shrine SRINAGAR, Oct 10: A team of architects will travel to Srinagar later this week to assess damage to the Hazratbal shrine caused by the earthquake, a minister said on Monday....		EU suspends bird imports from Turkey BRUSSELS, Oct 10: The European Union announced a ban on live bird imports from Turkey on Monday after an outbreak of avian influenza there, as Europe heightened its state of alert over the potentially deadly disease....
US says farewell to German air base FRANKFURT, Oct 10: The United States returned the Rhein-Main air base to Germany on Monday, ending a 60-year chapter of Cold War history with a brass band ceremony on the runway that lies opposite continental Europe’s busiest airport....		Lankan soldiers inhale toxic gas COLOMBO, Oct 10: Nine Sri Lankan army personnel were hospitalized after inhaling a poisonous gas. According to a military spokesman, the incident occurred on Sunday night when a gas cylinder lying...
Poor migrants work in Iraq’s nether world RAMESH Khadka began the journey to his slaughter in this valley of rivers, where green rice terraces march up the mountains like stairs toward the heavens....		Language translates into $1bn industry for new Europe ON the table of Charles Briffa’s study in the University of Malta is a copy of Poter u Glorja by Graham Greene. The Power and the Glory, to give it its...