October 15, 2005	Saturday	Ramzan 10, 1426

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Bush cited Pakistan, S. Arabia as posing ‘particular problems’ NEW YORK, Oct 14: President Bush cited Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as posing ‘particular problems’ in a conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair two months before the invasion of Iraq,...		Kashmiris accuse Indians of apathy SALAMABAD, Oct 14: After pulling his three daughters out of the rubble of his house and burying them, Mohammad Sadiq sat down in his village in occupied Kashmir and waited for help to come....
US soldiers deprive Iraqis of food during siege: UN investigator’s report GENEVA, Oct 14: A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday accused US and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities as they try to flush out militants....		Bush aide spends four hours at CIA leak inquiry WASHINGTON, Oct 14: US President George Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, testified at length on Friday before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s identity,...
7 workers killed in BD accident DHAKA, Oct 14: Workers at Bangladesh’s Export Processing Zone went on a rampage on Friday after seven garment factory workers were killed in a road accident near the zone....		Abdullah says he’s working to reduce oil prices WASHINGTON, Oct 14: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, in his first interview since coming to power, said he is working to trim high oil prices, which cause ‘tremendous’ damage to other countries,...
Iraqis vote on charter today BAGHDAD, Oct 14: Sunni religious figures urged their followers on Friday to vote ‘No’ in Iraq’s constitutional referendum, even though a Sunni party has broken with the rejectionist camp to support the US-backed charter....		Daniel Craig to be first blond Bond LONDON, Oct 14: His name is Craig, Daniel Craig. The English actor was named as the next James Bond on Friday, ending months of speculation over who would take over from Pierce Brosnan on Her Majesty’s secret service....
10 die as rains lash US east coast NEW YORK, Oct 14: Eight straight days of heavy rains in northeastern United States, covering states from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to New Hampshire have resulted in a deluge...		Picasso’s work to be auctioned STOCKHOLM, Oct 14: One of Pablo Picasso’s early paintings, “Guitar and Score on a Pedestal Table” from 1920, will go under the hammer in Sweden in November, a Stockholm auction house said Friday....
Referendum will change little in Iraq BEIRUT: Iraqis will vote on Saturday in a referendum that is billed as decisive for their political future, and by extension crucial for restoring order in their violence-wracked country....		Camp X-ray reeks of unpleasant memories CAMP X-RAY (Guantanamo Bay): The prisoners are gone. Camp X-ray is empty. A huge banana rat stares at the media team that enters the narrow cell where the inmates lived....
Elusive trail of Aids funds to NGOs JOHANNESBURG: Where have the billions of dollars poured into Africa to fight Aids gone? A lot of this money is channelled through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) mainly to pay for life-prolonging drugs...		A great writer and champion of the oppressed: Nobel laureate Pinter LONDON: When Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1969, his wife described the news as a catastrophe. For Harold Pinter, even though it means an inevitable invasion of...
Trinidad, Jamaica fight crime wave PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad): Soaring murder rates, kidnappings and exploding trash bins have two Caribbean tourist playgrounds on edge, with business owners pleading for police protection and foreign governments warning travellers to be wary....		Stuck in the clay of messy coalition BERLIN: The good news is Angie. The bad news is her government. Unfortunately, the bad is likely to subvert the good. Even if this lady chancellor is made of iron, a...
Thatcher casts a long shadow on her party LONDON: Margaret Thatcher celebrated her 80th birthday on Thursday, a date that coincided interestingly with the closing date for nominations for the Tory party leadership. It says much for her political...		Magazine to espouse Muslim cause LONDON: Britain’s first Muslim lifestyle magazine has gone mainstream, with its editor eager to boost the self-confidence of an embattled community and counteract negative stereotypes after the London suicide bomb attacks....