October 23, 2005	Sunday	Ramzan 18, 1426

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Alarm grows over scale of disaster ISLAMABAD: Alarm has grown over how to cope with a disaster now considered among the most difficult faced by the modern world. Two weeks after an earthquake ripped across northern Pakistan an epic tragedy is unfolding....		Bird flu virus found in Britain, Croatia LONDON, Oct 22: A parrot imported from Latin America has become the first bird to die of avian flu in Britain, bringing the danger of the deadly virus much further west...
Three killed in Egypt riots ALEXANDRIA, Oct 22: Egyptian Muslims and Coptic Christians traded barbs on Saturday over deadly riots sparked by a play deemed offensive to Islam, despite a public display of unity ahead of elections next month....		Iran vote crucial to India-US N-accord NEW DELHI, Oct 22: US Congressmen discussing a change in American laws to enable nuclear gate-crasher India to get Washington’s support in civilian nuclear energy projects will keenly watch New Delhi’s vote at the IAEA board meeting on Iran next month....
Sistani backs Arab League’s initiative NAJAF, Oct 22: Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said on Saturday his mission to foster dialogue and ease sectarian tension in Iraq had won crucial backing from the top Shia leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani....		Syria to ‘cooperate’ with UN over Hariri report DAMASCUS, Oct 22: Syria pledged on Saturday to cooperate with the international community following a UN report on the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri that implicated top Syrian figures and raised the threat of international sanctions....
Saddam’s province rejects constitution BAGHDAD, Oct 22: Only one Sunni-dominated province so far has rejected the draft Iraqi constitution with a majority of more than two-thirds, electoral officials said on Saturday as they presented partial results from the Oct 15 referendum....		CIA leak case: prosecutor’s move alarms White House WASHINGTON, Oct 22: In the clearest indication to date that criminal charges against top White House officials may be in the offing, the special prosecutor investigating the CIA leak case has...
Charges over corpses worry Rumsfeld VILNIUS, Oct 22: Accusations that US soldiers had burned the corpses of two Afghan guerillas to taunt the Taliban have damaged the American military, whether or not they are true, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said on Saturday....		China plans to close borders if flu detected HONG KONG, Oct 22: China will close its borders if it finds a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu there, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Saturday, while a defiant Taiwan said it would copy a patented antiviral drug....
US official visits N-plant in N. Korea SEOUL, Oct 22: The head of the US team that visited North Korea said on Saturday the full access it got to a sensitive nuclear site was a sign of Pyongyang’s...		Talabani not to sign Saddam’s death decree BAGHDAD, Oct 22: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who normally opposes capital punishment, said on Saturday he would not sign a death decree for Saddam Hussein if he were convicted, but that two vice presidents could sign in his place....
Palace and parties keep Nepal polarized KATHMANDU: Nepal’s strongman King Gyanendra named dates for elections earlier this month—and then enacted a law that hamstrings journalists’ reporting of politics. After he axed his appointed government and began ruling with a handpicked council on Feb....		Morocco — a nation stuck between fear and regret CASABLANCA (Morocco): He calls them the “citadels of death,” the prisons where he watched his friends die, one by one. He was tortured and starved until even the parasites abandoned his body....
Bird flu exposes West’s double standards BANGKOK: With hardly a hint of shame, voices from the Western world’s political establishment are exhibiting a view that seems to say that the lives of people in the developed world matter more than those that populate the South....		North, South divided by Korean language SEOUL: In North Korea, they ask whether you speak “chosun-mal”. In South Korea, they want to know whether you can converse in “hanguk-mal”. A different name for their ostensibly common language...