February 4, 2006	Saturday	Muharram 5, 1427

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Hamas refuses to amend charter: Israel offered truce talks GAZA, Feb 3: Defying international pressure, the Hamas said on Friday it would neither recognise Israel nor change its charter calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, but might be willing to negotiate terms for a temporary truce....		US backs Muslims on caricature issue WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The United States backed Muslims on Friday against European newspapers that printed sacrilegious caricatures — a move that could help America’s battered image in the Islamic world....
No apology from Danish PM COPENHAGEN, Feb 3: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen met Muslim envoys on Friday to seek calm over the storm triggered by the publication of sacrilegious cartoons, but refused to apologise...		Paper regrets publication of cartoons COPENHAGEN, Feb 3: The Danish newspaper that enraged Muslims with irreverent cartoons said on Friday it would not have published the material had it known what the consequences would be....
Delhi not to reverse airport privatization NEW DELHI, Feb 3: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday vowed to press ahead with plans to privatise two airports despite a strike that has caused chaos at airports for three consecutive days....		Chavez reveals US ‘operation’ WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The United States expelled a senior Venezuelan diplomat on Friday in a swift tit-for-tat move against President Hugo Chavez, who has an increasingly antagonistic relationship with the superpower....
IAEA delays vote on Iran referral VIENNA, Feb 3: The UN nuclear watchdog deferred until Saturday a vote to report Iran to the UN Security Council over fears it is seeking atomic bombs, as the European Union lobbied developing nations to back the measure....		Bush was poised for war without UN: book LONDON, Feb 3: Fresh evidence that US President George Bush was determined to invade Iraq with or without UN approval emerged on Friday in an updated book from a prominent British expert on international law....
Freeloader on Turkish plane RIYADH, Feb 3: An airport loader somehow went asleep while loading luggage of returning pilgrims on a Turkish Airlines flight at Jeddah airport....		3,000-km range missile ready: India NEW DELHI, Feb 3: India on Friday announced it had completed all tests and was ready to deploy its latest nuclear-tipped missile, capable of striking targets at a distance of 3,000 kilometres....
Curfew in Indian town BHOPAL, Feb 3: Police fired tear gas and used batons on Friday to prevent Hindus from entering a religious site in central India sacred to both Hindus and Muslims, an official said....		Al Qaeda men escape from Yemen jail SANAA, Feb 3: Twenty-three suspected Al Qaeda members broke out of a prison in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday. A website quoted unnamed sources as saying the group escaped from...
Bush is wrong, and Chirac is right WASHINGTON: George Bush’s presidency still has three years to run, but this week’s state of the union address had an unmistakably ebb-tide air. Its tone — ‘chastened, deferential, modest’ in the...		Death penalty debate locked in stalemate CHICAGO: When Illinois halted executions six years ago, death penalty opponents thought they glimpsed a way to abolish capital punishment across the United States. But since then, none of the 38...
Olmert — heir to troubles: Acting Israeli prime minister JERUSALEM: He has been pictured lately in the Israeli cabinet room next to a large, empty chair — the one where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon usually sits....		Reality show crosses an ethical line LONDON: In discussions over what broadcasting’s ultimate depravity would be, the consensus has usually settled around two scenarios: the televising of an execution, and a gameshow in which cardiac patients compete for a transplanted heart....