November 30, 2005	Wednesday	Shawwal 27, 1426

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30,000 US troops may quit Iraq next year; Baghdad official’s interview BAGHDAD, Nov 29: Iraq’s national security adviser said on Tuesday up to a fifth of the US troops in the country could withdraw early next year as the performance of local security forces improves....		Bush opposed to immediate pullout EL PASO, Nov 29: President George Bush warned on Tuesday that withdrawing US troops from Iraq immediately would be a ‘huge’ and ‘terrible mistake’. Mr Bush said the US strategy in...
Karzai urges Omar to speak on murder KANDAHAR, Nov 29: Taliban leader Mullah Omar should confirm if the group was behind the murder of an Indian worker last week so Afghanistan can know its ‘enemy’, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday....		Six Muslim suspects arrested in France PARIS, Nov 29: French anti-terrorist police on Tuesday arrested six suspected Muslim extremists, including a prison guard, as part of an investigation centred on money-laundering, sources close to the case said....
Russia slams US, Nato influence in C. Asia MOSCOW, Nov 29: A senior Russian official hit out on Tuesday at the US and NATO presence in the former Soviet Central Asian states, accusing Washington of inflaming tensions in the...		Mufti shot dead FALLUJAH, Nov 29: Gunmen in several cars shot dead an influential Sunni religious scholar outside his mosque in Fallujah on Tuesday. Hamza Abbas al Issawi, a mufti, was coming out of...
Climate change in Europe has no parallel: agency PARIS, Nov 29: Europe is facing the worst climate change in five millennia as a result of global warming, the European Environment Agency (EAA) warned in a report issued on Tuesday....		Spain defies US, seals arms deal with Venezuela CARACAS, Nov 29: Spain signed an arms deal on Monday with Venezuela to supply military transport aircraft and patrol boats to Caracas, as both governments dismissed objections by the United States....
US nearing 1,000th execution WASHINGTON, Nov 29: The United States will likely reach this week the grim milestone of 1,000 executions of convicts since 1976, although capital punishment is declining with fewer juries choosing death sentences....		Is Iraq war the most foolish in 2,000 years?: No way out for Americans LONDON: There is a remarkable article in the latest issue of the American Jewish weekly, Forward. It calls for President Bush to be impeached and put on trial...
Putin poised to stamp control on city govt MOSCOW: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been steadily snuffing out potential challenges to his power and now he is preparing to storm the most stubborn bastion yet: Moscow’s feisty city government....		Thai PM looks to the heavens as popularity wanes BANGKOK: Nine months after winning a second landslide election, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is losing his lustre amid a string of corruption scandals and mudslinging by a former business associate....
Saddam’s character traits flash up in court BAGHDAD: Saddam Hussein shuffles into court. His voice, one that once struck fear into Iraqis, is weaker. But the hard-edged character that raised him from street fighter to president was still very much on display....		A ray of hope for paralysis patients BEIJING: When Leo Hallan woke up in a hospital and found out he was paralysed from his chest down from a motorcycle accident in 1976, he thought his life was over....
Rajapakse sticks to unitary state COLOMBO, Nov 29: Despite a hard hitting speech by Tiger rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran on Sunday insisting on a Tamil homeland and self-determination, President Mahinda Rajapakse has stuck to his initial...		Powell aide blasts Cheney NEW YORK: A top aide to former secretary of state Colin Powell has again launched a stinging attack on US Vice President Dick Cheney over abuse of prisoners by US troops....