October 25, 2005	Tuesday	Ramzan 20, 1426

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UN Council to hold meeting on Syria: Pro-govt rally in Damascus WASHINGTON, Oct 24: The UN Security Council will meet at ministerial level to address a UN report that implicated Syria in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the State Department said on Monday....		Wilma paralyzes life in Havana HAVANA, Oct 24: Roaring seas in the wake of Hurricane Wilma sent massive waves crashing over Havana’s famed Malecon sea wall on Monday, flooding shoreline neighborhoods and paralyzing the city of two million....
NY Times at loggerheads with reporter WASHINGTON, Oct 24: A standoff between the New York Times and one of its star reporters has cast new doubts about US reporting before the Iraq invasion and alleged White House efforts to shape pre-war intelligence....		World Cup means life on the streets for SA’s poor JOHANNESBURG: The stench of human waste wafting through the gloomy lobby of a Johannesburg squat is unbearable, but resident Johannes Poto doesn’t seem to notice. Once he makes it past the...
Malaysia’s govt a model for Iraq: US KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24: US goodwill envoy Karen Hughes said on Monday that the power-sharing government in Malaysia, which includes representation from minority ethnic groups, is an ‘outstanding’ model for Iraq....		Misuse of cellphones worries BD DHAKA, Oct 24: Bangladesh’s home ministry on Monday asked law enforcement agencies to investigate allegations that outlaws were operating Bangladeshi cellphones in India without international roaming service....
Nineveh to decide Iraq’s constitution BAGHDAD, Oct 24: Two of Iraq’s 18 provinces have returned “No” votes to a constitutional referendum, the electoral commission said on Monday, possibly making Nineveh the swing province that could veto the US-backed charter....		Lawyers expect charges this week in CIA leak case WASHINGTON, Oct 24: Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be laying the groundwork for indictments this week over the outing of a covert CIA operative, including possible charges of perjury and...
Israel has grip on Gaza despite pullout: envoy JERUSALEM, Oct 24: Israel is acting as if it never withdrew from the Gaza Strip, stalling agreements with the Palestinians on issues such as access to the territory and links with the West Bank, an international envoy charged....		Israel kills Jihad leader TULKARM, Oct 24: Israeli troops killed a top militant in the Bank on Monday, while Gaza gunmen fired several rockets towards Israel in a flare-up of violence that threatened to unravel an eight-month ceasefire....
They are too young to understand: Psyche of Iraqi children BAGHDAD: Thirteen-year-old Mohammed Khalaf and his younger brother Ahmed had taken a break from their soccer game to collect candy from American soldiers when a suicide bomber turned his SUV onto the boys’ narrow street....		American lifeline to a devastated Guatemala SANTIAGO ATITLAN (Guatemala): When landslides smothered his village earlier this month, burying dozens of flimsy houses and hundreds of people under mounds of mud, Jose Mogollon, 70, and his wife, Antonieta,...
Europe is not working, agree Blair and Brown LONDON: This week Hampton Court Palace, gloomy Tudor scene of so many intrigues in past centuries, will briefly cease being a tourist stopover and once more become a centre of political skulduggery....		Importing carers exacerbates imperialism LONDON: The piles of cheap clothing on our high streets come with a high price tag. The westerners know about the low pay and poor working conditions of those producing these...
Khrushchevs meet Lenins MOSCOW: When Khrushchev met Lenin for the first time in Moscow, they discussed the dark clouds looming on the horizon. It was not politics that concerned them, but the weather....		Russians fume in mammoth traffic jams MOSCOW: Malkhaz Katamadze nudged his black Volga forward, stopped and sighed. He is one of the three million people who drive into Moscow every day and, like everyone else, he spends hours in traffic jams....