December 3, 2005	Saturday	Shawwal 30, 1426

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Iran to buy missiles, other weapons from Russia MOSCOW, Dec 2: Russia plans to sell more than one billion dollars worth of tactical surface-to-air missiles and other defence hardware to Iran. Moscow is already at odds with the West...		League rejects BD govt’s talks offer DHAKA, Dec 2: Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Friday invited the opposition parties to a ‘national dialogue’ over measures to tackle ‘religious militancy’, but the Awami League immediately rejected the invitation....
EU agrees to include India in N-project BRUSSELS, Dec 2: The European Union agreed on Friday to include India in a 10-billion-euro project to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor that in the long-run could provide virtually unlimited, cheap and clean energy....		Arab nations suspicious of US motives: poll WASHINGTON, Dec 2: Arab nations are acutely suspicious of the Bush administration’s ‘democracy’ agenda in the Middle East and believe the US invasion of Iraq has made the region less secure, said a poll released on Friday....
US eases post-9/11 curbs on sharp items WASHINGTON, Dec 2: US authorities on Friday loosened restrictions imposed after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks that barred passengers from taking sharp objects such as scissors into airplanes....		1,000th execution carried out in US RALEIGH, Dec 2: Double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment when he was put to death by lethal injection on Friday....
French face transplant woman recovering LYON, Dec 2: A 38-year-old French woman was recovering well after receiving the world’s first partial face transplant, and doctors said on Friday she was happy with her new face and had thanked them for their work....		Al Jazeera chief trails the memo LONDON: I have lost count of the number of accusations levelled against Al Jazeera and the incidents of harassment to which it has been subjected since it was founded in 1996....
Succession a taboo subject in N. Korea PYONGYANG: Whatever you do, don’t ask a North Korean who will lead the nation after Kim Jong Il. Succession is a taboo subject here, as are Kim’s three sons, their names, ages and whereabouts....		Will Clark’s presence help Saddam? BAGHDAD: High-profile American lawyer Ramsey Clark came to the aid of Saddam Hussein, formally joining his team of attorneys. But while the former US attorney-general may have found the ultimate platform...
Architect fiddled with safety figures TOKYO: Until the scandal broke, Hidetsugu Aneha was just an anonymous architect, running a small Tokyo-area firm that carried out the mundane but crucial calculations to determine how much reinforced steel...		The Russians are coming PARIS: Russia passes a milestone on its road to recognition as a world power in January when it takes over the year-long presidency of the G8 group of large, industrialized nations for the first time....
Annan spurns US proposal on budget UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2: UN chief Kofi Annan on Friday rejected a US proposal for a temporary UN budget, pending resolution of the stalemate over a planned reform of management practices in the world body....		Don’t squint while you read this WASHINGTON, Dec 2: People who squint while staring at computer screens also blink less than normal, which dries and irritates their eyes, researchers said this week....