November 13, 2005	Sunday	Shawwal 10, 1426

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UN investigators grill Lebanese president on Hariri murder BEIRUT, Nov 12: United Nations investigators probing the murder of Lebanon’s former billionaire premier Rafiq Hariri have interrogated pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, heightening pressure on the embattled regime in Damascus....		Diplomatic memoirs cause controversy: Secrecy is vital, UK ambassadors told LONDON: The head of Britain’s diplomatic corps has ordered ambassadors and senior officials to keep their silence after leaving office, warning that tell-all books such as the one published this week...
ME meeting ends inconclusively after Egypt’s objection MANAMA, Nov 12: A Middle East reform conference promoted by the United States ended in confusion on Saturday without a final declaration after Egypt tried to introduce language which Washington said would restrict aid groups....		Nepal’s king seeks Saarc’s support DHAKA, Nov 12: Nepal’s King Gyanendra sought on Saturday to win regional support for dismissing the government and taking power, saying security had improved under his rule....
Saarc award conferred on Ziaur Rahman DHAKA, Nov 12: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday gave the first Saarc award for 2004 to Bangladesh’s former president, Ziaur Rahman, for his key role in the creation of the alliance....		Iran rejects EU proposal TEHRAN, Nov 12: Iran on Saturday insisted upon its right to enrich its own uranium, rebuffing an EU proposal that Russia should perform the sensitive atomic fuel work to allay fears Tehran is seeking atomic arms....
Ezzat Ibrahim dies BAGHDAD, Nov 12: Ezzat Ibrahim al Duri, the number two in former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s government, died on Friday. There was a 10-million-dollar US bounty outstanding on Mr Duri, 63, who was said to be gravely ill with leukaemia....		Management guru Drucker passes away WASHINGTON, Nov 12: Peter Drucker, the business management visionary whose humanist ideas deeply shaped the way the modern corporation is run, died at the age of 95 in his home in Claremont, California, on Friday....
Annan’s surprise visit to Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 12: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan flew in to Baghdad on a surprise one-day visit on Saturday, his first since US-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein ....		A hunger eating up the world SANTAREM (Brazil): A smoky haze blurs the frontier between the world’s mightiest forest and its biggest threat: the humble soya bean. The four-month burning season in the Amazon is when the...
Zarqawi widens battle front BERLIN: Why has Osama bin Laden gone silent? While his lieutenant in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has not only stepped up the insurgency there but also claimed responsibility for three suicide...		Tamil Tigers not ready for long-term agreement COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s presidential frontrunners both promise lasting peace with the Tamil Tigers if elected at this month’s poll, but while their pledges strike a chord with ordinary voters, they may have misjudged the rebels....
After war, an empty peace in Balkans SARAJEVO: Ten years have passed since the internationally sponsored Dayton Peace Accords ended the bloody war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But lives remain disrupted, and thousands are still missing....		The secrets of the London Cage LONDON: Kensington Palace Gardens is one of the most exclusive, and expensive, addresses in the world: its stately row of 160-year-old mansions, built on land owned by the crown, is home to ambassadors, billionaires and princes....