December 1, 2005	Thursday	Shawwal 28, 1426

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Delhi dragging feet on Islamabad’s proposal: US Congressmen meet Kashmiri leaders NEW DELHI: Central information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, the Indian government’s pointperson for Kashmir, was present at a closed-door meeting organised by the US embassy with Kashmiri leaders, including All-Parties Hurriyat Conference chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on self-governance for Jammu and Kashmir....		What really ails Amitabh? MUMBAI: The suspense over superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s illness continued on Day 2 as the first family of Bollywood made no announcement to fans and media. Even as the actor was put...
BD court seeks report on blast probe DHAKA, Nov 30: The High Court of Bangladesh on Wednesday ordered the government to submit reports on the progress in the investigation into bomb attacks in different court premises starting from August 17....		Bangladesh needs concerted effort to fight extremism DHAKA: Bombs detonated again in the court premises reportedly by fundamentalists, claimed nine innocent lives in Bangladesh on Tuesday, giving a clear message that the jihadis, out to set up a...
UN disputes India’s Aids figures NEW DELHI, Nov 30: India’s health minister defended on Wednesday government figures showing a 95 per cent slide in the annual growth of HIV infections after the UN AIDS chief called the numbers ‘plainly impossible’....		US army planting stories: paper WASHINGTON, Nov 30: The US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by US soldiers in an effort to polish the image of the American mission in Iraq, a US newspaper reported on Wednesday....
Norwegian oil deal with Kurds irks Sunnis BAGHDAD, Nov 30: Sunni leaders in Iraq voiced anger on Wednesday over a Norwegian company’s oil deal struck exclusively with Kurds in the north and warned such projects could deepen sectarian divisions....		China, S.Korea call for scrapping Japan summit TOKYO, Nov 30: A Japan-China-South Korea summit may be cancelled for the first time in six years due to Chinese and Korean anger over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to a war shrine, a newspaper said on Wednesday....
EU warns Blair against ‘reverse Robin Hood’ BRUSSELS, Nov 30: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Britain on Wednesday not to reverse the legend of Robin Hood by robbing poor new east European members to pay the rich in the European Union’s budget....		US move worries United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30: The United Nations could face a debilitating financial crisis if United States manage to block the world body’s two-year budget until management reforms are agreed, according to a senior UN official....
Shiv Sena is dying out MUMBAI: No one would have imagined that the frail cartoonist in the corner of the Free Press Journal’s office would one day have such an important role to play in the politics of Maharasthra....		Freed children put Delhi to shame NEW DELHI: Child welfare officers are struggling to decide what to do with 470 boys liberated in the largest ever raid on factories employing children in Delhi....
Political pact with Maoist rebels checks Gyanendra KATHMANDU: An alliance between Nepal’s mainstream political parties and Maoist rebels brings hope of resolution to a crisis, brought on by King Gyanendra’s Feb 1 assumption of direct rule, citing the...		UK sends letter to US over CIA flights LONDON, Nov 30: Britain has written to US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice over claims that the CIA used European Union airports to transport terrorist suspects, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday....
Woman receives first face transplant PARIS, Nov 30: Surgeons in France said on Wednesday they had performed the world’s first face transplant on a 38-year-old French woman who lost much of her lower face in a dog attack....		Saddam as election candidate? AMMAN, Nov 30: Iraqis have asked Saddam Hussein’s defence team to mull the possibility of fielding the ousted president as a candidate for future elections, one of his lawyers said in remarks published on Wednesday....
Mixed reaction to Bush’s plan NEW YORK, Nov 30: President Bush’s Temporary Worker plan which he espoused in speeches on Monday and Tuesday promises to bring all the undocumented immigrants ‘out of the shadows’ and into...		Iran-EU talks in two weeks ANKARA, Nov 30: Preliminary talks between Iran and the European Union over Tehran’s nuclear programme will begin in Turkey in mid-December, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in Ankara on Wednesday....
US library evacuated WASHINGTON, Nov 30: The main building of the US Library of Congress was evacuated on Wednesday morning after a ‘suspicious door’ was detected and two people felt faint, Capitol police said....		Guantanamo inmate BERLIN, Nov 30: A Turkish man held since 2002 in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay can keep his German residency status despite being out of the country for longer than six months, a German court ruled on Wednesday.—Reuters...