November 17, 2005	Thursday	Shawwal 14, 1426

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Pakistani Briton to be extradited to US WASHINGTON, Nov 16: US officials on Wednesday appreciated Britain’s decision to extradite a Briton of Pakistani origin to the United States to face charges of supporting terrorists and money laundering....		Remittances to add $356bn by ’25: WB WASHINGTON, Nov 16: The World Bank predicted on Wednesday that a three per cent increase in the work force in high-income countries by 2025 could raise global real income by 0.6...
Syria yet to respond to Hariri probe request: UN BEIRUT, Nov 16: A top UN official said on Wednesday the commission investigating former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri’s murder had still not received an official response from Damascus about UN demands to interrogate Syrian officials at the panel’s Lebanon base....		Concern in Europe over CIA prisoner flights MADRID, Nov 16: Concern widened on Wednesday in a clutch of countries in Europe and north Africa over the use of their airports by US intelligence officials to transfer suspected Muslim extremists....
China finds first cases of bird flu among humans BEIJING, Nov 16: China announced on Wednesday its first human cases of bird flu, saying the H5N1 virus had killed one woman, likely claimed the life of another girl and infected one boy who has since recovered....		US to inspect Iraqi detention centres after abuse charges BAGHDAD, Nov 16: The commander of US-led forces in Baghdad said on Wednesday that Iraqi detention centres would be inspected, following reports of prisoner abuse at a clandestine interior ministry lock-up in the capital....
Bush urges Beijing to allow more ‘freedoms’ KYOTO, Nov 16: President George Bush urged China on Wednesday to move further to allow political and religious freedom, and he held up Taiwan as a model for Asia of a free and democratic society....		US to keep control of Internet TUNIS, Nov 16: The United States will keep control of the domain-name system that guides online traffic under an agreement on Wednesday seen as a setback to efforts to internationalize one of the pillars of the Internet....
The ‘trust deficit’ in Dhaka THE only positive decision taken by the 13th summit of Saarc nations in Dhaka was to accept Afghanistan’s request to join the regional organization as its eighth member....		New thinking on Kashmir: text of Mirwaiz’s speech NEW DELHI: The head of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has proposed a United States of Kashmir to involve all provinces of the disputed region....
How Delhi slept as Naxalites armed NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, shortly after assuming power, that the Naxalites have “the potential to pose an even graver threat than militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.”...		Fresh uranium conversion by Iran alleged VIENNA: Iran on Wednesday started a new round of converting uranium ore into the feedstock gas for making enriched uranium, a move likely to complicate diplomacy over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, diplomats alleged....
Meet the nine-year-old director BANGALORE: A chat with the nine-year-old Kishan from Bangalore. How old are you and what is the movie you are directing all about? I am nine and the movie I’m directing is about slum children....		Dhaka to get tough with militants DHAKA: The Bangladesh government has asked law-enforcers to root out members of suicide squads of the banned Muslim outfit, the Jamaatul Mujahideen, Bangladesh, which is blamed for carrying out frequent bombings in the country....
Ants eat into comatose patient’s eye KOLKATA: Pintu Chakraborty was in for a shock when he dropped in at Shambhunath Pundit Hospital on Monday morning. He had come to check on mother Gouri, 55, who had slipped...		MIT chapter in Kolkata KOLKATA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology will soon set up a chapter here. The renowned US university will send a team to work out the details in the last week of December, state finance minister ` Dasgupta has announced....
Purge hurting Iran, says Rafsanjani TEHRAN, Nov 16: A sweeping purge of officials by Iran’s new hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is badly damaging the country, political rival and top official Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned on Wednesday....		BD leaders split over how to fight militancy DHAKA, Nov 16: Quite puzzled by the failure to stop the repeated bomb and grenade attacks in the capital city and elsewhere in the country, the government seems to be divided...