December 6, 2005	Tuesday	Ziqa’ad 3, 1426

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Quake survivors face choices of life and death DHANA: The first snows marched across Dhana like an invading army. The icy wind howled across the mountain hamlet; homeless families huddled around small fires as temperatures plunged....		Saddam says he is ready to die: First witness appears in court BAGHDAD, Dec 5: Saddam Hussein said he was not afraid to die and aggressively took on the court trying him on Monday, bullying a witness who described the horrors of his rule, including a meat grinder for human flesh....
France terms move unilateral rejection: Iran’s decision on enrichment LJUBLJANA, Dec 5: Iran’s insistence on enriching uranium on its own soil amounts to a ‘unilateral’ rejection of a Russian proposal to resolve a nuclear standoff with the West, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Monday....		US talking to Sunni groups with guerilla ties: Hadley WASHINGTON, Dec 5: US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad is talking to Sunni groups in Iraq with ties to guerillas about joining the political process, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on Sunday....
BJP expels Uma Bharti NEW DELHI, Dec 5: The Bharatiya Janata Party expelled on Monday a firebrand nun for challenging the party’s leadership. The expulsion of Uma Bharti marked the latest storm to shake the BJP....		Gays start applying for legal status in Britain LONDON, Dec 5: After years of campaigning for equal rights in Britain, gay couples applied on Monday to give their partnerships legal status for the first time....
Bush govt will pay both at home and in Iraq: Propaganda and bribery LONDON It seems such a tiny, insignificant thing. Why worry about planting a little propaganda and bribing a few journalists when your men in the field are dying day after day? “This is war,” says the Pentagon....		Uproar over abuse of women PENANG (Malaysia): A video clip of a naked female in a locker room, forced to perform repeated squats in front of a woman in police uniform and arms akimbo, has sparked an uproar in Malaysia that may not easily die down....
New row breaks out over face transplant PARIS: New questions were raised on Sunday over France’s pioneering face transplant operation when a leading medical ethics professor said the surgery had been conducted with undue haste, as it emerged...		North Korea dreams of oil-funded security BEIJING: Its capital Pyongyang lies nearly dark at night for lack of power, but North Korea could be sitting on enough oil to revive its moribund economy and fuel Chinese-style reforms, analysts and geologists say....
Arab enrolment jumps in West Bank settler college ARIEL (West Bank): Every day, Nida Hussein takes a trip that for most Palestinians would be unthinkable — a two-hour bus ride from Jerusalem to a Jewish settler college in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....		A funeral, not a wedding TWENTYNINE PALMS (California): Just a week ago, Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Martinez had called his mother from Iraq with exciting news. “He said, ‘Mom, go to Zale’s and buy a carat-and-a-half diamond — I’m coming home,’ “ Kelly Hunt said....
Netanyahu calls for ‘bold action’ JERUSALEM, Dec 5: Israel should take ‘bold and courageous’ action against Iran’s nuclear programme, similar to its 1981 air strike on the main Iraqi atomic reactor, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday....		Osama visited US in ’78, says weekly WASHINGTON, Dec 5: Osama bin Laden may have visited the United States as a young man, long before declaring jihad against America and its allies, the New Yorker magazine reported in its latest edition....
Annan sacks official UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5: The United Nations on Monday said that Carina Perelli,the head of the United Nations’ Electoral Assistance Division, would receive a dismissal letter from Secretary General Kofi Annan on charges of mismanagement and sexual harrasment....		Allawi stands by claim on assassination BAGHDAD, Dec 5: Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi on Monday stood by a claim that he was nearly assassinated in a mosque in Najaf and suggested unidentified foreigners may have been involved....