January 3, 2006	Tuesday	Zilhaj 2, 1426

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Russia ends gas blockade under EU pressure: Price row with Ukraine MOSCOW/BERLIN, Jan 2: Russia on Monday was forced to all but abandon a gas blockade against neighbouring Ukraine after European trade partners complained that their own supplies were being hit and warned Moscow that relations would suffer....		Nepal rebels end truce KATHMANDU, Jan 2: Nepal’s Maoist rebels said on Monday they have been compelled to end a four-month-old truce at midnight tonight and go on the offensive to defend themselves against government forces....
Egypt to deport 600 Sudanese KHARTOUM, Jan 2: Egyptian authorities are preparing to deport some 600 Sudanese, part of a group of nearly 2,000 people detained after police forcibly broke up a protest in Cairo, a Sudanese official said on Monday....		Afghan govt demands end to security barriers KABUL, Jan 2: The Afghan government will press ahead with a plan to require Western embassies, foreign military forces and security firms to remove security barriers in a bid to ease traffic congestion in Kabul, a spokesman said on Monday....
Turkish envoy’s motorcade attacked BAGHDAD, Jan 2: Gunmen attacked the convoy of the Turkish ambassador to Iraq in Baghdad on Monday, police said. A Turkish Foreign Ministry official said there were no casualties, although Iraqi...		Iran likens Zionism to fascism TEHRAN, Jan 2: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently called the Holocaust a “myth”, has likened Zionism to fascism and said Israel was created in order to expel Jews from Europe....
Sharon to scrap peace plan: report AL QUDS, Jan 2: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans eventually to scrap a US-led “road map” to peace with the Palestinians and instead seek Washington’s blessing for annexing occupied West Bank land, a newspaper said on Monday....		Economy in Iraq somersaults BAGHDAD: Taken as a whole, Iraq’s economic landscape remains wasteful and primitive, with a touch of the postmodern, a touch of the feudal and a heavy dose of tedious state bureaucracy that sucks up much of the country’s resources and energy....
Issues of war Lebanese want to forget BEIRUT: On this morning, as on every morning since October 17, 1985, Audette Salem cleaned the rooms of her son and daughter. She left his razor, toothbrush and comb as they...		The politics of global inequality finally comes of age LONDON: A year ago, we were told we had 12 months to make poverty history. So, in the bleary cold light of the new year, how does our achievement stack up?...
EU wary of Russia as energy partner BRUSSELS: European Union nations may look with increasing scepticism at Russia’s reliability as an energy partner after the resource-rich country cut gas supplies to Ukraine, but the bloc’s room for manoeuvre is limited....		Pitfalls of deceptive wildlife images JOHANNESBURG: A South African mugger fleeing the scene of his crime hides in a tiger enclosure. On the country’s coast, a woman attempts to be a good Samaritan by pushing a...
Growing up at Hitler’s retreat FRANKFURT: As the son of one of Hitler’s closest aides who spent much of his childhood at the dictator’s mountain retreat, Albert Speer knows more than most Germans what it is...		Thai soldier beheaded BANGKOK, Jan 2: Insurgents beheaded a Thai soldier in the Muslim-dominated south of Thailand on Monday morning and wounded three other soldiers in the latest attack in the restive region, police said....