November 29, 2005	Tuesday	Shawwal 26, 1426

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Witness says testimony against Syria was false DAMASCUS, Nov 28: A Syrian witness who has accused the son of Lebanon’s slain former prime minister of bribing him to testify falsely to a UN murder inquiry, said on Monday his testimony was the main evidence against Syria....		Gandhi’s killer dies MUMBAI, Nov 28: Gopal Godse, the last surviving member of the five-man group convicted in the 1948 assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Sunday after a prolonged illness, his son Nana Godse said....
Call for more Hindu babies sparks fury NEW DELHI, Nov 28: A leading Hindu hardliner has angered women and Muslims by pressing Hindus to have as many children as they can to avoid being swamped by Muslims....		EU members warned of sanctions: CIA camps BERLIN, Nov 28: EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini threatened sanctions on Monday for any EU nation found to have allowed secret CIA prison camps to operate on their soil....
Primaries suspended in Gaza GAZA CITY, Nov 28: A primary election organized by the ruling Palestinian party Fatah was halted throughout the Gaza Strip on Monday amid ‘serious violations’ and outbreaks of violence, officials and witnesses said....		Bush to press for immigration reforms NEW YORK, Nov 28: President George Bush plans to tackle the contentious illegal immigration issue which has divided the Republican party. At meetings planned for Tuscan (Arizona) and El-Paso (Texas) Mr...
134 killed in China mine BEIJING, Nov 28: An explosion ripped through a state-owned colliery in northeast China, killing 134 miners and trapping 15 underground, just days after Chinese leaders called for vigilance to prevent major accidents....		Dawood linked to Al Qaeda WASHINGTON, Nov 28: Dawood Ibrahim, one of the most wanted men in India, is working closely with groups like Al Qaeda and Lashkar-i-Taiba, says the US News and and World Report magazine in its latest issue....
CNN sacks operator NEW YORK, Nov 28: A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the weekend by The news network, which allegedly defended a mysterious giant ‘X’ appearing over Vice President Dick Cheney’s face during an interview last week....		3,000 homeless after Iran quake TEHRAN, Nov 28: Iranian rescue workers handed out blankets, food and water on Monday to survivors of a powerful earthquake on a Gulf island that killed 10 people and forced villagers to spend the night in tents....
Four teachers marry driver RIYADH, Nov 28: Four Saudi women teaching in a remote village school have married their driver so they can live closer to work, Al Watan newspaper said on Monday....		3 pilgrims shot dead in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 28: Four aid workers — two Canadians, a Briton and an American — were kidnapped in Iraq and three British pilgrims were killed in a bus shooting on Monday in a new surge of violence against foreigners....
After 23 years in hiding, brothers face new Iraq BAGHDAD: When, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, brothers Saad and Ibrahim left their family home in the leafy middle-class Baghdad neighborhood of Karada for the first time in two decades, they promptly got lost....		Film fair aims to bridge divide DUBAI: Dubai’s international film festival opens next month, featuring films meant to bridge East-West differences in the presence of stars led by Morgan Freeman and Greek-French cult director Costa-Gavras....
AIDS challenge in Africa is daunting LONDON: Since HIV/AIDS was first diagnosed nearly 25 years ago, more money has been put into combating this disease than probably any other in human history....		A severe blow to Bal Thackeray MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray once told the Times of India that he must be the most lonely man in the world. Even though he has thousands of followers, he said that he felt lonely....
Greenhouse gases a nuisance for Canada OTTAWA: This should be a proud moment for Canada, where a major conference to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change treaty opens on Monday....		Nicosia’s street symbolizes change NICOSIA: Rusty barbed wire, abandoned buildings and military checkpoints are visible symbols of the Mediterranean island’s decades-long partition but moves to reopen a major shopping street in Cyprus’s divided capital are bringing signs of change....