October 26, 2005	Wednesday	Ramzan 21, 1426

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Mly action against Syria ‘last resort’, says Bush DUBAI, Oct 25: President George Bush said on Tuesday military action was a last resort in dealing with Syria and he hoped Damascus would cooperate with a probe into the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik al Hariri....		Court orders return of Mahmudabad property NEW DELHI, Oct 25: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the restoration of all properties to the Indian son of the late Raja of Mahmudabad, who had migrated to Pakistan in...
Spotlight on Cheney in CIA leak investigation WASHINGTON, Oct 25: Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff first learned about the CIA officer at the centre of a leak investigation in a conversation with Cheney weeks before her...		Florida reeling from Wilma’s rampage MIAMI, Oct 25: Southern Florida was reeling on Tuesday after enduring a four-hour assault by Hurricane Wilma that killed at least four people, cut power to millions of homes and caused billions of dollars in damage....
Flu pandemic inevitable: EU expert COPENHAGEN, Oct 25: A human influenza pandemic provoked by bird flu or another virus will surely hit Europe at some point and the EU needs to prepare for the ensuing public health crisis, a disease control expert said on Tuesday....		Saddam defence seeks UN action BAGHDAD, Oct 25: A group of former foreign leaders backing the defense of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein called on Tuesday for a UN probe into the murder of an attorney working for one of his fellow accused....
US toll in Iraq now 2,000 BAGHDAD, Oct 25: The US military death toll in Iraq passed 2,000 with the announcement on Tuesday that a soldier had died in a Texas hospital of wounds from a bomb....		West looking for Russian support : Iran’s referral to UN VIENNA: The United States and the European Union will hold off taking Iran before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program until they get Russia to back them and may...
Quebeckers want a parting of the ways: Canadian province is restless again QUEBEC CITY: A decade after a referendum on whether Quebec should break away from Canada failed by a whisker, the pro-independence movement in the French-speaking province is anxious to try its luck again....		Rosa Parks: an activist who sparked a change in race relations WASHINGTON: According to legend, on December 1, 1955, a tired black woman in Montgomery, Alabama, sat in the ‘for whites only’ front section of a bus and started the civil rights movement....
Americans feel invasion was wrong: poll WASHINGTON, Oct 25: For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq invasion was the ‘wrong thing to do’, according to a poll published on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....		Avalanche of zany brainwaves LONDON: The Home Office is about to announce yet another scheme to deal with criminals and antisocial behaviourists. Mind you, there hasn’t been a new idea for some days, so we’re in urgent need of one....
Inequalities are driving events in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM: Having witnessed events in Birmingham over the past few days, I see an alarming picture emerging. Not only have there been two deaths, scores of people injured and property damaged,...		Germans are going to miss Fischer BERLIN: One of Germany’s most colourful politicians of the last two decades, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, has abruptly pulled the plug on his electrifying career....
Black rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies at 92 DETROIT, Oct 25: Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man sparked a revolution in American race relations, died on Monday....		BBC to launch Arabic TV channel LONDON, Oct 25: The BBC World Service is closing 10 local language radio services, mostly to eastern Europe, to pay for a new Arabic-language satellite television channel....
Hariri panel faced threats: Mehlis UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25: The chief UN investigator probing the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri said on Tuesday that his team had received several “threats”....		Govts urged to respect prisoners’ faith UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25: An independent UN expert on Monday called on all nations to respect and protect the rights of prisoners to freedom of religion....