December 29, 2005	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 26, 1426

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US sanctions Indian, Chinese firms: Arms supply to Iran WASHINGTON, Dec 28: The United States has imposed sanctions against six companies from China, two from India and one from Austria for supplying Iran with military equipment and technology, the State Department said on Tuesday....		EU launches first navigation satellite MOSCOW, Dec 28: The European Union launched its first Galileo navigation satellite on Wednesday, moving to challenge the United States’ Global Positioning System (GPS)....
Secret idea to treat Saddam in Britain revealed LONDON, Dec 28: British diplomats secretly discussed the idea of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein undergoing a back operation in Britain 30 years ago, official files released on Thursday showed....		‘Rendition’ began in Clinton era: agent BERLIN, Dec 28: The CIA’s controversial ‘rendition’ programme to have terror suspects captured and questioned on foreign soil was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US agent told a German newspaper....
Civil war threatens to engulf Sri Lanka COLOMBO: Following the killing of a Tamil member of Parliament on Saturday midnight and the killing of a total of 28 Sri Lankan soldiers in the past three weeks, peace facilitating...		Middle class drives India’s consumption boom NEW DELHI: Shaminder Sharma saunters out of a glitzy shopping mall in an eastern suburb of India’s capital, pushing a shopping cart with ready-to-eat meals and juice cartons among her other monthly groceries....
Nepalese leaving for greener pastures KATHMANDU: Nearly 23,000 people left the troubled kingdom of Nepal between mid-November and mid-December, the highest number on record, the media here has reported....		Rights groups worried over BD militants’ threats DHAKA: A journalists’ rights group, Reporters Without Borders, has expressed deep concern over threats to Bangladeshi reporters by Muslim extremists waging a deadly bombing campaign to impose Islamic law....
Advani recalls visit to Pakistan MUMBAI: Careful not to give away all that he has to say to his party before stepping down from the top post on Dec 31, BJP chief L.K....		A ‘princess’ in tsunami wedlock PORT BLAIR: After the storm, the rainbow. From the debris and destruction of what has been one of India’s worst calamities has risen a story that touches the very depths of the heart....
Nepal to hold municipal elections KATHMANDU: Nepal’s royalist government will go ahead with its plan to hold long-delayed municipal elections early next year despite threats from Maoist rebels to disrupt the vote, a senior minister has said....		3 Britons kidnapped in Gaza GAZA CITY, Dec 28: Three members of a British family on Wednesday became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Gaza after being abducted near the Egyptian border, diplomatic and Palestinian security sources said....
Professor shot dead at Bangalore university BANGALORE, Dec 28: An unidentified gunman shot dead one man and wounded four other people with an automatic rifle at a top Indian science university on Wednesday before making an escape....		Ex-German diplomat taken hostage SANAA, Dec 28: A German family of five, including a former high-ranking diplomat, have become the latest foreigners taken hostage by tribesmen in Yemen, tribal sources said on Wednesday....
Iran reacts positively to Russian offer TEHRAN, Dec 28: Iran said on Wednesday it would ‘seriously and enthusiastically’ study a Russian proposal aimed at reducing international fears about its nuclear programme....		3 policemen killed in BD DHAKA, Dec 28: Members of an ultra-left group attacked a police camp in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing three officials of an auxiliary force. The attack took place in the Singra sub-district of Natore....