December 12, 2005	Monday	Ziqa’ad 9, 1426

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North Korea suspends N-talks ‘indefinitely’ SEOUL, Dec 11: North Korea’s foreign ministry has said six-nation talks on dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear programme have been suspended “for an indefinite period” because of US financial sanctions on the Stalinist state....		Iran blasts West’s furore over anti-Israel remarks TEHRAN, Dec 11: Iran’s foreign ministry said on Sunday it was surprised that President Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come in for yet more international condemnation for his latest anti-Israeli outburst....
Comedian Pryor dies at 65 LOS ANGELES, Dec 11: Richard Pryor, who helped transform comedy with biting commentary on race and often profane reflections on his own shortcomings, died on Saturday at age 65 after a long illness, his wife and associates said....		Dubai film festival opens DUBAI, Dec 11: Dubai’s international film festival opened on Sunday with a constellation of Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars attending the Middle East premiere of a Palestinian movie about suicide bombers....
Japan offers to host Lanka talks COLOMBO, Dec 11: Japanese peace envoy Yasushi Akashi on Sunday invited Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels to meet in Japan for talks to save their ceasefire, which is threatened with collapse after 31 people were killed in fresh violence....		Anti-WTO rally in Hong Kong HONG KONG, Dec 11: Hundreds of local civil society activists staged a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday to mobilize masses about the un-democratic proceedings of WTO negotiations....
BD on bomb alert ahead of anniversary DHAKA, Dec 11: Security forces went on special alert in the Bangladesh capital on Sunday after a bomb blast near the city’s diplomatic area wounded two people, police said....		Baathists urge Sunnis to vote in poll FALLUJA/RAMADI, Dec 11: Saddam Hussein loyalists who violently opposed January elections have made an about-face as Thursday’s polls near, urging fellow Sunnis to vote and warning Al Qaeda militants not to attack....
America breaches moral standards: ‘Rendering’ suspects to torturers LONDON: The word rendition was an odd one in the context. It seemed to imply long-standing procedures, an obscure diplomatic formality perhaps. It was some weeks later that I began to...		Whither Lebanon’s revolution? BEIRUT: In Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square, 11 photographs hang on a wooden wall, showing hundreds of thousands of anti-Syrian protesters thronging the city’s streets after the February assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Al Hariri....
Unlikely candidate leads in Chile PUERTO AISEN (Chile): The candidate faced the hard women of this rugged Patagonian town. They were angry about the fate of their sons and husbands, a dozen lost in recent years to drownings, suicides, street crime....		‘Tsunami: a word everyone learnt forever’: An aid director’s letters to his children LONDON: As Toby Porter, emergencies director for Save the Children, travelled around Asia after the tsunami he felt ‘a darkness descend’ as the death toll rose....