January 31, 2006	Tuesday	Muharram 1, 1427

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Hamas asks donors to keep funding PA RAMALLAH (West Bank), Jan 30: Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas both appealed to foreign donors on Monday to lift threats to cut vital aid to a new Palestinian government that the Islamic militant group is set to form....		Ahmedinejad congratulates Hamas leader TEHRAN, Jan 30: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday telephoned Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to congratulate him for the radical movement’s win in Palestinian general elections, official media said....
Iraq goes on high security alert for Muharram KARBALA, Jan 30: Thousands of security personnel were being deployed in southern Iraq on Monday to stop insurgents’ attacks on Muharram gatherings as militants carried out attacks on local and foreign forces in the area....		India test-fires short range missile BHUBANESHWAR (India) Jan 30: India test fired a short-range suface-to-air missile on Monday, the third launch in three days, a defense ministry official said....
EU warns Riyadh of WTO action: Blasphemous cartoons BRUSSELS, Jan 30: The European Commission has raised the prospect of WTO action against Riyadh if the Saudi government supported a boycott of Danish products because of blasphemous cartoons, a spokesman said Monday....		Saudis want moderate stance on Israel RIYADH, Jan 30: US ally Saudi Arabia believes militant group Hamas should moderate its stance towards Israel, but its victory in Palestinian polls could create pressure for more Saudi funding, officials and analysts say....
London police chief admits errors LONDON, Jan 30: London’s police chief Ian Blair told a newspaper on Monday his force made errors in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man whom officers mistook for a suicide bomber....		Georgia closes airspace to Russia TBILISI, Jan 30: Georgia has closed its airspace to Russian military aircraft, officials said on Monday, adding a new irritant to relations still raw from a dispute over gas supplies....
Kabul will need aid for 10 years: Karzai LONDON, Jan 30: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed into talks on Monday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai ahead of an international donors’ conference aimed at preventing his country sliding back to chaos....		First bird flu victim in Iraq SULAIMANIYAH, Jan 30: Iraq confirmed on Monday its first case of bird flu, saying a teenage girl who died earlier this month in Kurdistan had succumbed to the deadly H5N1 virus....
Cold-wave in Europe continues WARSAW, Jan 30: Freezing weather continued to take its toll across Europe, with the number of dead in Poland rising above the 200 mark since the start of winter....		NAM troika backs Iran over N-issue JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30: South Africa, Malaysia and Cuba have affirmed Iran’s right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes ahead of crunch talks in Vienna on Tehran’s atomic programme....
India’s left parties want recall of US envoy NEW DELHI, Jan 30: India’s left parties on Monday asked the government to demand the recall of US ambassador David Mulford for commenting on New Delhi’s stand on Iran’s nuclear programme and the country’s economic policy....		Mahmoud Abbas is the only bridge to Israel and the West RAMALLAH: For Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who recently completed his first year in office, an already challenging tenure just became significantly more difficult....
How the US fell out of love with its cars NEW YORK: For John McVeigh, making cars was not just a job; it was his shot at the American Dream. He had left Glasgow a young, wide-eyed man at 21 and...		Chinese New Year festival reunites families TANQIU VILLAGE (China): On almost every other day, Cai Weilan wakes up hundreds of miles away in a cramped factory dormitory, facing another long shift making sweaters for strangers across the ocean....
Opec investors mature, keep petrodollars at home VIENNA: Thirty years of experience have turned Opec countries into sophisticated investors, who pile their record amounts of petrodollars into a range of assets, increasingly in the Middle East, rather than the United States....		Hamas will make a deal LONDON: A so-called expert was asked on the BBC’s Arabic service last week what he thought Hamas should do now it is likely to be the government in the Palestinian territories....
Google and my red flag WASHINGTON: A Chinese publisher expressed interest in my recent book on the World Bank — provided that certain passages were deleted....