December 11, 2005	Sunday	Ziqa’ad 8, 1426

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Polish PM orders probe into charges: CIA prisons WARSAW, Dec 10: Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said on Saturday he would order an investigation into allegations that the CIA detained suspected terrorists at secret prisons in Poland....		Papers reveal UK’s N-aid to Israel LONDON, Dec 10: Fresh and apparently incriminating documents have come to light under the Freedom of Information Act on the way Britain helped Israel obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tons of heavy water....
Explosives supplier held, claims BD govt DHAKA, Dec 10: Bangladesh’s elite security force said on Saturday it had arrested the main supplier of explosives to an extremist group waging a suicide bombing campaign....		Iceland is surprise Miss World winner SANYA (China), Dec 10: Miss Iceland Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir was crowned the surprise winner of the Miss World contest in a lavish ceremony watched live by millions across the globe on Saturday....
Gotovina transferred to Hague UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10: Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina was transferred on Friday to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, where he faces charges of committing...		US told Saudis about ‘Osama’s plan’ in ’98 NEW YORK, Dec 10: Three years before the Sept 11 attacks in the United States, Washington told the Saudi government that Osama bin Laden might be targeting civilian aeroplanes, according to...
US agrees to join talks on climate change: Kyoto pact extended beyond 2012 MONTREAL, Dec 10: Environment ministers agreed on Saturday to launch new, open-ended world talks on ways to fight climate change that will include Kyoto outsiders such as the United States and developing nations....		US has been using torture for decades LONDON: It was the “Mission Accomplished” of George Bush’s second term, and an announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location. But what was the right backdrop for the...
Myanmar Muslims barred from getting married BANGKOK: In Myanmar’s remote west, young men and women are subject to a form of discrimination, considered harsh, even for the military regime in this country....		Tourists unfazed by bird flu HONG KONG: The spread of bird flu in Asia does not appear to be putting off tourists but local officials are nervous, fearing a repeat of the SARS outbreak two years ago, which made parts of the region no-go areas....
‘Shades of Srebrenica’ cloud Nato’s Afghan mission BRUSSELS: The Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity in Europe since the Nazi era, cast a shadow over Afghanistan on Friday when the Dutch government demanded guarantees that its troops would not face a similar disaster again....		Schroeder draws fire for gas firm job BERLIN: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder drew fire on Saturday from opposition politicians and some commentators for becoming chairman of a gas company he helped launch last year with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
A big election story from a small Egyptian town DAMANHOUR (Egypt): When the light drains from the autumn sky and sinks into the fields, Damanhour could be any town of 300,000 people in the Nile Delta....		Lanka truce COLOMBO, Dec 10: Rri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse told visiting Japanese peace envoy Yasushi Akashi on Friday that there should be two separate entities to facilitate the peace process and to monitor the truce....