December 28, 2005	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 25, 1426

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Shias, Kurds agree to bring Sunnis into govt ARBIL, Dec 27: Leaders of the Shia and Kurdish blocs that emerged triumphant in this month’s Iraqi election agreed on Tuesday to push ahead with efforts to bring Sunni and other parties into a grand coalition government....		Kashmir is not negotiable: BJP NEW DELHI, Dec 27: India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government on Tuesday of going soft on Pakistan’s alleged support for “cross-border terrorism in Kashmir”....
PLO leader spurns Spielberg’s appeal GAZA, Dec 27: The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said on Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg’s new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation....		Mass grave found in Gujarat AHMEDABAD, Dec 27: Villagers claimed a mass grave had been uncovered for victims of the 2002 communal killings in Gujarat, an official said on Tuesday. “Eight human skulls were unearthed....
Putin aide quits, says Russia no longer free MOSCOW, Dec 27: An outspoken aide to President Vladimir Putin resigned on Tuesday, saying he did not want to work for a state that had ended democracy and basic freedom....		Settlers build 13 outposts JERUSALEM, Dec 27: Jewish settlers set up 13 makeshift outposts in the West Bank on Tuesday in a show of strength as debate over the occupied territory, home to 2.4...
Book to narrate hippo-tortoise friendship NAIROBI, Dec 27: An unlikely friendship between a baby hippo that survived last year’s tsunami and century-old tortoise on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast is to be chronicled in a children’s book...		Kerry Packer dies SYDNEY, Dec 27: Kerry Packer, Australia’s richest man whose fierce business reputation dominated corporate Australia and whose companies control one of the nation’s major media groups, died in his sleep on Monday night, his family said....
Poles to stay in Iraq till Dec ’06 WARSAW, Dec 27: Poland will maintain troops in the international stabilization force in Iraq until the end of 2006 but will cut the number to fewer than 1,000, officials said on Tuesday....		UK media stopped from naming spy LONDON, Dec 27: The British government issued an order on Tuesday forbidding the domestic media from revealing the identity of a British spy reported to have helped torture terrorist suspects held in Greece....
Turks haven’t learned the British way of denying atrocities LONDON: In reading reports of the trial of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, you are struck by two things. The first, of course, is the anachronistic brutality of the country’s laws....		EU divided over last rites of constitution BRUSSELS: When a family experiences a bereavement, sensitive souls tend to tread carefully. Not so at Eurostar, which is taunting the Brussels elite at the end of a year that witnessed the death of their beloved EU constitution....
Iraq enters 2006 teetering between hope and chaos BAGHDAD: Iraq enters 2006 teetering between hope and chaos with ex-dictator Saddam Hussein on trial for crimes against humanity, after a year of horrific violence, alleged torture and three national elections....		Ukraine hits back in row with Russia MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine are on the brink of a political crisis over gas prices that symbolises the widening gulf between the two former Soviet countries....