November 19, 2005	Saturday	Shawwal 16, 1426

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Rajapakse elected Lankan president COLOMBO, Nov 18: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse was elected president on Friday, beating opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe by a wafer-thin margin....		Iran cedes document to IAEA: Papers linked to A. Q. Khan VIENNA, Nov 18: The UN nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on Friday that Iran had given it a document that included partial instructions for making the core of a nuclear bomb....
More Muslim MPs needed, says Blair LONDON, Nov 18: British Prime Minister Tony Blair underlined the need for more Muslim MPs in the United Kingdom. In the meeting, held at the Little London community primary school with...		Old Jerusalem’s walls near collapse JERUSALEM, Nov 18: Large sections of the 16th century walls surrounding Jerusalem’s Old City are in danger of collapse unless they undergo immediate restoration, an Israeli newspaper said on Friday....
Anti-US protests mark APEC summit opening BUSAN (South Korea), Nov 18: Leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region held a summit on Friday to give new impetus to deadlocked trade talks and the fight against bird flu, as police clashed with anti-US protesters....		Roh slams Koizumi over war shrine visits BUSAN, Nov 18: South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun on Friday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for his visits to a war shrine, describing them as ‘provocation’ to Seoul....
UN conference turns spotlight on Web censorship TUNIS, Nov 18: A United Nations communications and technology summit, which ended on Friday with a pledge to expand the availability of the Internet, has turned the spotlight onto a dispute about censorship....		Prosecutor hints at new charges in CIA case WASHINGTON, Nov 18: Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation would involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case....
The march of liberty has been halted LONDON: The erosion of liberty. Four words sum up four years. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, we have seen an erosion of liberty in most established democracies....		A revolution in Israeli politics? LONDON: In the Middle East, the sensible position is pessimism. No one ever lost a bet by gambling that Israelis and Palestinians would keep fighting each other rather than make peace....
US Senate denies justice to Camp Delta hunger strikers LONDON: Fawzi al-Odah weighed just 44.5kg last week when his lawyer, Thomas Wilner, visited him in Guantánamo. In August 2002 he weighed 63.5kg. The young Kuwaiti is one of the hundred...		Bush to sound out Putin on democracy BUSAN (South Korea): President Bush, heading into a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, was prepared to register alarm about a new Kremlin campaign to tighten control over Russian democracy, US officials said....
Tamil Tigers ditch dove COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tiger rebels deliberately ditched the man who signed a truce with them and cleared the way for his hawkish rival to win the presidency in a calculated move that has dashed peace hopes, analysts said on Friday....		Pressure mounts on Blair to resign LONDON: At the heart of the British system of democracy is the concept of accountability. At the end of every parliament the governing party — and the prime minister — are accountable to the people for their stewardship of the country....
Charles takes action against tabloid LONDON, Nov 18: Britain’s Prince Charles took legal action on Friday against a tabloid newspaper that published extracts from his private journals. A spokesman for the heir to the throne said...		ATM yields no cash JOHANNESBURG, Nov 18: Four robbers used a bulldozer to try to smash open a cash machine in a South African shopping mall early on Friday but fled empty-handed when they were unable to open the safe....
Chechen PM in hospital after car crash GROZNY, Nov 18: Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov is in hospital after suffering serious injuries in a car crash in Moscow, officials said on Friday, days before a regional election....		UN officials refuse to visit Guantanamo UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18: Five independent United Nations human rights experts Friday rejected a United States invitation to visit its detention base in Guantanamo, Cuba, because the US Government did not...