January 4, 2006	Wednesday	Zilhaj 3, 1426

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

Strict health, security checks for Haj pilgrims JEDDAH, Jan 3: Saudi authorities are working hard to ensure Haj pilgrims are disease-free and pose no threat to the country’s security. The director of the health control centre at Jeddah’s...		Moscow restores gas supply to Europe MOSCOW, Jan 3: Russia restored natural gas supplies to its crucial European customers on Tuesday after they felt the squeeze of an ongoing price war with Kiev, while Ukrainian officials flew to Moscow for talks to resolve the crisis....
Floods claim 57 lives in Indonesia JEMBER (Indonesia), Jan 3: Rescuers on Tuesday combed through debris and mud for victims of flash floods that inundated villages in Indonesia’s East Java as the death toll rose to 57, officials said....		15 die as German rink collapses BAD REICHENHALL (Germany), Jan 3: Up to 15 people, including children, were killed or feared dead after the roof of a skating rink in southern Germany collapsed in heavy snow, police and officials said on Tuesday....
Egypt to expel 645 Sudanese CAIRO, Jan 3: Egypt plans to expel 645 Sudanese, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, despite contrary assurances to the United Nations’ refugee agency following the killing of at least 27 refugees last week when police broke up a protest....		13 trapped in US coal mine TALLMANSVILLE (USA), Jan 3: Rescuers in the United States on Tuesday drilled into a coal mine where 13 miners have been trapped for more than 24 hours, but the company said...
Castro plotted JFK murder: film BERLIN, Jan 3: A German documentary to be aired this week claims to have found new evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald shot US president John F....		Sharon family got $3m as bribe: TV JERUSALEM, Jan 3: Israeli police have evidence which allegedly shows Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s family received a bribe of three million dollars from an Austrian billionaire, Channel 10 television reported on Tuesday....
Malaria kills 3 million in Africa every year LONDON: The numbers are impossible to digest. Three million people a year die from the disease, most sufferers contract it two or three times a year and, whenever they do, are...		Arab world divided over significance of changes CAIRO: Arabs from Egypt to Iraq went to the polls last year and protested in the streets of Cairo and Beirut. Western media said a region used to authoritarian rule was going through a democratic spring....
Islam turns into a hot topic in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR: Islam tops Malaysia’s long list of “sensitive subjects” that are forbidden from being raised in public but, over the last two weeks, it is as if nothing else can be discussed....		S. Africa’s economic boom leaves the poor behind JOHANNESBURG: Sam Khumalo works feverishly in the muggy heat, sifting through mounds of garbage for empty bottles and other materials for recycling as flocks of black-faced sacred ibis circle hungrily above....
Cuba shows impressive growth figures HAVANA: After registering impressive economic growth in 2005, Cuba now faces the challenge of devoting greater resources to improving the population’s quality of life, but without disregarding the need to fully develop the country’s productive base, economists say....		Clamour for reform drowned in Syria DAMASCUS: The posters at the bus stops show either the Syrian flag or a large, simple portrait of the president, Bashar al-Assad. There are no words, for the message is well understood: support the regime....
Screening for lung diseases NEW YORK: New research suggests that genetics may make people susceptible to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and reduced lung function. If so, then a family history of these disorders should place individuals in the high-risk category....		What’s in euro’s name? RIGA (Latvia), Jan 3: The single European currency will be called the ‘eiro’ in Latvia, the government in the new European Union member state voted on Tuesday, brushing off appeals from...
2 Palestinians stopped from campaigning JERUSALEM, Jan 3: Israeli police stopped two leading candidates from canvassing in occupied east Jerusalem on the first day of the Palestinian election campaign on Tuesday, prompting new threats to cancel the whole ballot....		Bush support drops among soldiers: poll WASHINGTON, Jan 3: Support for President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy has fallen among the US armed forces to just 54 per cent from 63 per cent a year ago, according...