November 12, 2005	Saturday	Shawwal 9, 1426

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Film shows US used chemical weapons: Falluja fighting THE Italian state television network, RAI, has broadcast a documentary that contains footage and testimony proving that the American military has used chemical weapons in Iraq, including in civilian areas, according to a report on the World Socialist Website....site....		North Korea N-talks back to stalemate BEIJING, Nov 11: North Korea said on Friday it would not start dismantling its nuclear weapons programme until the United States lifts sanctions on eight Pyongyang companies, bringing six-way nuclear talks back to stalemate....
Jordan hotel bombers were Iraqis, says Al Qaeda AMMAN, Nov 11: Al-Qaeda said on Friday that four Iraqis, including a husband and wife team, carried out suicide bombings against luxury hotels in Jordan that devastated one of Washington’s staunchest Middle East allies....		France on riot alert for holiday weekend PARIS, Nov 11: France was on alert on Friday for a possible upsurge of violence as the country headed into a long holiday weekend, two weeks after rioting first broke out in a run-down suburb of Paris....
Palestinian militants condemn Jordan bombings GAZA, Nov 11: Among the first to condemn the suicide bombings in Jordan were Palestinian militants anxious to show they have no sympathy with Al Qaeda’s choice of targets, even if the group was emulating their own bomb-belt tactics....		The Message director Akkad passes away DUBAI, Nov 11: Hollywood Arab film director Moustapha Akkad has died in hospital from wounds sustained in this week’s hotel bomb attacks in Jordan, Arab television stations said on Friday....
Rice urges unity amid violence in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 11: The United States will stay committed to what it hopes will be an inclusive Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday, but violence flared even as she touched down in the Iraqi capital....		BD deploys 30,000 troops for Saarc DHAKA, Nov 11: More than 30,000 troops have been deployed in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka for this weekend’s summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), the police chief said on Friday....
Elbaradei searched at Boston airport NEW YORK, Nov 11: The head of International Atomic Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei, recipient of Nobel Peace prize this year, was pulled out of line at Logan airport in Boston and...		A gesture of both peace and resistance: Ahmed’s gift of life JENIN: For once, the circumstances of a young boy’s death from an Israeli bullet are not in dispute. The army concedes that one of its soldiers shot 12-year-old Ahmed Khatib in...
We have only weeks to save the survivors: Victims of earthquake LONDON: When the first TV news images came through of the earthquake in Pakistan, the world clocked off. Desperate appeals from the UN yielded a fifth of what was needed....		Migrants drive Russia’s economy MOSCOW: Fuad, an illegal migrant from Azerbaijan, is thinking of going home after five years’ work as a loader and brick-carrier in Moscow’s booming shadow economy....
Bulgarian nurses in the dock SOFIA: Zorka Anachkova still recoils with horror when she recalls the indictment. Issued by a Libyan court in 2000, it charged her daughter Kristiana and four other Bulgarian nurses with intentionally infecting 426 children with the HIV virus....		Singapore overcomes water woes SINGAPORE: Singapore, which is turning to desalination and waste-water technology to wean itself off water imports from neighbouring Malaysia, is now using its expertise to win a bigger slice of the $600 billion global water business....