November 15, 2005	Tuesday	Shawwal 12, 1426

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‘We were wrong’ over Iraq: Hadley WASHINGTON, Nov 14: A top White House aide has admitted that the US was “wrong” about presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but insisted that President George W....		Maoists storm jail in India, free 350 JEHANABAD, Nov 14: About seven hundred heavily armed Maoist rebels stormed a jail in Bihar on Sunday night, killing two people and freeing about 350 prisoners, including many fellow guerillas....
4 killed as Nato convoy attacked in Kabul KABUL, Nov 14: At least four people, including one German soldier from the Nato-led peacekeepers, were killed in two car bomb attacks by Taliban fighters in the Afghan capital on Monday, officials and witnesses said....		Three held in Srinagar over Delhi blasts SRINAGAR, Nov 14: At least three people were detained on Monday in held Kashmir in connection with New Delhi’s bombings, following the arrest of the alleged mastermind last week....
French govt extends emergency powers for three months PARIS, Nov 14: The French cabinet on Monday approved a three-month extension of emergency police powers to subdue the wave of suburban unrest that has swept the country, as President Jacques...		Blair hints at pullout from Iraq next year LONDON, Nov 14: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that talk of withdrawing troops from Iraq next year was ‘entirely reasonable’ as long as a pullout would not leave the country in a ‘security vacuum’....
Russia to help Uzbekistan against ‘threats’: Putin, Karimov sign pact MOSCOW, Nov 14: Russia and Uzbekistan on Monday signed a pact committing the two ex-Soviet allies to helping each other in situations that posed a security threat to either of them....		US-EU spat could break up Web: experts TUNIS, Nov 14: A tense dispute over US control of the internet in the run-up to the World Summit on the Information Society could eventually lead to the break-up of the global network and hamper seamless browsing, officials warned on Monday....
Enayetullah laid to rest DHAKA, Nov 14: Bangladeshi journalist Enayetullah Khan, editor of the Dhaka-based daily New Age and the weekly Holiday, was laid to rest in Dhaka on Monday with state honours....		Sydney N-plant was militants’ target: police SYDNEY, Nov 14: Police indicated on Monday that Australia’s only nuclear reactor may have been a target of Muslim militants arrested last week on charges of plotting a major terrorist bombing....
Congress urged to support US-India deal WASHINGTON, Nov 14: The Federation of Indian Associations in the United States has asked the International Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives to back the Bush administration’s decision of transferring civilian nuclear technology to India....		Lawyer flees Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 14: A lawyer representing two of Saddam Hussein’s co-defendants has fled Iraq and is seeking asylum in Qatar following an attempt on his life, according to a letter he has written to the leader of the Gulf state....
Enemies of media to share UN spotlight KATHMANDU: At least two enemies of media freedom will share the spotlight at this week’s United Nations meeting dedicated to making the information age accessible to all people of the world....		Parliament is a new concept in Afghanistan KABUL: Bloodstains still marred the basement walls last year when construction crews began renovating the building tapped to be this nation’s temporary Parliament house. A former government structure most recently used...
Depleted force ill at ease over Iraq war LONDON: Former Territorial Army (TA) soldiers have spoken out about how the Iraq war has compelled them to leave the service. An average of 500 men and women a month have...		Is Indian SC no longer a champion of civil rights? NEW DELHI: Law Minister H. R. Bharadwaj’s outburst last week conveyed his anguish at the diminishing role of the Supreme Court as the last frontier of civil liberties....
N.Ireland murals tell story of a changing society BELFAST: Change in Northern Ireland may be so slow it appears imperceptible, but the writing is on the wall for one of the most negative of its cultural traditions — murals glorifying paramilitary violence....		Scientists warn of plague outbreak OSLO: Warmer, wetter weather brought on by global warming could increase outbreaks of the plague, which has killed millions down the ages and wiped out one third of Europe’s population in the 14th century, academics said....