December 8, 2005	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 5, 1426

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Germany stands firm on ‘US mistake’: CIA case BERLIN, Dec 7: Berlin stood firm on Wednesday in an embarrassing diplomatic spat with Washington, insisting the United States had acknowledged a mistake in the case of a German man it...		Fears rise in Sri Lanka after lethal attacks JAFFNA: Standing amid the war-ravaged buildings of Sri Lanka’s government-held Jaffna enclave, soldiers like 26-year-old Saman say a string of attacks blamed on Tamil rebels is straining their patience — and a 2002 ceasefire....
Tehran shut down amid smog alert TEHRAN, Dec 7: Residents of the smog-choked Iranian capital were told Wednesday not to go to work or school for two days in an unprecedented government effort to stop Tehran from suffocating....		BJP rules out appeal by Uma NEW DELHI: A day after she was thrown out of the party, BJP on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of Uma Bharati “appealing” against disciplinary action with former PM Atal Bihari...
Officials told not to use torture, says Rice KIEV, Dec 7: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that US personnel were banned from using torture anywhere in the world, in an apparent attempt to quell a raging controversy over secret CIA prisons....		CIA moves prisoners to Africa WASHINGTON, Dec 7: The United States shut down two secret CIA prisons in Romania and Poland after a rights group reported their existence last month and has moved its detained terror suspects to North Africa, ABC news reported on Tuesday....
Climate change has transformed Canada: PM MONTREAL, Dec 7: Environment ministers from around the world heard a grim warning about the threat to the Arctic on Wednesday as they began three days of talks to climax a key conference on climate change here....		Shots fired inside plane at Miami MIAMI, Dec 7: Shots were fired aboard an American Airlines flight that landed in Miami on Wednesday and was immediately surrounded, according to police. Local news reports said the shots were fired by a US air marshall on the jet....
Florida jury acquits Palestinian NEW YORK, Dec 7: A jury in a Florida court on Tuesday acquitted a Palestinian professor and three co-defendants, on all 51 criminal counts. They were accused of operating a North American front for Palestinian terrorists....		Key official in China spill found dead BEIJING, Dec 7: The vice mayor and environment chief for China’s Jilin city has been found dead, a local official said on Wednesday, amid accusations he was involved in last month’s cover-up of a huge toxic spill....
India tests missile BHUBANESHWAR, Dec 7: India successfully tested on Wednesday a surface-to-air missile for the second time in five days from a coastal range in the east of the country, a defence official said....		US looks to India as new global ally WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is looking increasingly to India as a core ally as it seeks to engineer what could be a major diplomatic shift away from the power alignments forged after World War Two....
New Delhi lavishes praise on Bill Gates NEW DELHI: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates let India know how big he thinks. In a sound check ahead of a nationwide television interview on Wednesday he counted not one, two, three, but: “one billion, two billion, three billion.”...		Indians shine in US WASHINGTON: They are yet to get their drivers license, but they are already assured in their way around the world of science and maths. They are yet to wield a shaving...
Obesity hits rich Indians MUMBAI: India is facing an obesity crisis among its newly wealthy middle class as millions of its rural poor still struggle for enough to eat. As the country becomes richer, many...		SC relief for Lalu NEW DELHI: Barely a fortnight after his party lost the Bihar polls, RJD supremo and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday forcefully pointed out a flaw in the SC order relating...