November 22, 2005	Tuesday	Shawwal 19, 1426

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Iraqi leaders want timetable for foreign troop pullout: Arab League-sponsored talks CAIRO, Nov 21: Iraqi leaders put persistent differences to one side on Monday to agree their first joint statement on how to end conflict between their communities and achieving national reconciliation....		NAM to counter Western media: News network for developing nations on the card KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21: The Non-Aligned Movement is to set up a Malaysia-based alternative news network for developing nations to counter what officials have termed “discriminatory and distorted” Western reporting....
4 Hezbollah men killed in fighting with Israeli forces HASBAYA (Lebanon), Nov 21: Three militiamen from Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement were killed in fighting on Monday with Israeli forces on the volatile border between the two enemy states....		Sri Lanka swears in new premier COLOMBO, Nov 21: Sri Lanka’s new leader swore in a hawkish prime minister on Monday in a move that reinforced fears the government would take a hard line in any future peace negotiations with Tamil Tiger rebels....
Women in Europe hit worst by Aids: UN NEW DELHI, Nov 21: Young African Americans led the number of new HIV/Aids cases in the United States while the number of women infected via sex in Western Europe showed a sharp spike, a UN report released on Monday said....		EU move to open defence markets BRUSSELS, Nov 21: EU states promised on Monday to give each other’s firms greater access to military contracts in their closely-guarded national defence markets, in a potentially major step towards liberalisation of the sector....
Israel told to respect Muslim feelings over Al-Aqsa KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Monday urged Israeli authorities to be “cautious” amid fears the walls of the ancient Al- Aqsa Mosque in Al Quds’ Old City were crumbling....		Iraq FM says checking reports Zarqawi may be dead MOSCOW, Nov 21: Iraq has no confirmation but is checking reports Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi may have been killed during fighting in northern Iraq, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday....
Nigerian state governor flees UK dressed as woman YENAGOA (Nigeria), Nov 21: A Nigerian state governor charged with money laundering in Britain has escaped disguised as a woman and returned to his home state, where he enjoys immunity from prosecution....		‘Dutchman helped Saddam genocide’ THE HAGUE, Nov 21: A Dutch businessman sold chemicals to Iraq knowing Saddam Hussein would use them to carry out poison gas attacks that killed thousands of people, prosecutors told the start of his trial on Monday....
Indonesia clerics to fight militants in ‘war of ideas’ JAKARTA, Nov 21: A move by Indonesia’s mainstream Muslim groups to form a team to counter militant ideas, work with the police and review radical publications is an important step but must be more than just rhetoric, analysts said on Monday....		French justice system at the crossroads BOBIGNY (France): The defendants rose. Out of the smoke and fury of the past weeks, the phrase ‘French rioters’ took shape in two faces. Two names....
Philippine health service in crisis MANILA: The Philippines has become one of the biggest suppliers of healthcare workers in the world but the exodus of nurses and doctors in the last five years for higher paying...		Barbershop rises from the ruins BALAKOT: Surrounded by collapsed buildings and the din of relief trucks rumbling through this earthquake-battered town, Mohammed Fazal serenely goes about his work, whistling a tune under his breath....
‘Bulldozer’ Sharon smashes new path JERUSALEM: First Ariel Sharon remodelled himself, now Israel’s ‘Bulldozer’ aims to reshape the landscape of the Middle East forever. Sharon has shifted far enough left to form a centrist party with a platform of pursuing peace and giving up isolated settlements....		China’s welfare push BEIJING: Slowly but surely, China is executing a shift in tax and spending policies to help meet its goal of rebalancing growth from investment to consumption....