February 6, 2006	Monday	Muharram 7, 1427

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Israel agrees to transfer revenue to Palestinians JERUSALEM, Feb 5: Israel agreed on Sunday to make a crucial payment of about $54 million to the Palestinians, but officials said future transfers will be halted once Hamas militants form the next Palestinian government....		Billions stolen from PA coffers, says AG GAZA CITY, Feb 5: The Palestinian attorney general said on Sunday a corruption investigation has concluded that senior officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA) may have stolen billions of dollars of public funds....
Karzai to seek ‘more’ help from Pakistan WASHINGTON, Feb 5: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that he would seek ‘more in-depth’ cooperation from Pakistan in the fight against terrorism when he visited Islamabad on Feb 15....		UK plans to begin troop pullout from Iraq this year: paper LONDON, Feb 5: The British government has drawn up a secret plan to begin withdrawing 2,000 soldiers _ a quarter of its total forces _ from Iraq this spring, a newspaper reported Sunday....
Denmark urges Arab states to stop protests: European presidents deplore attacks COPENHAGEN, Feb 5: Denmark on Sunday called on Arab leaders to help curb an escalation of Muslim anger over the cartoon issue....		US Muslims show muted reaction NEW YORK, Feb 5: The Muslim community in the United States is uncharacteristically silent over the publication of sacrilegious cartoons in European newspapers. Observers ascribe the response to a timely condemnation by the Bush administration of the caricatures....
Mly option open on Iran, says Rumsfeld BERLIN, Feb 5: US Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said on Sunday all possibilities are still open in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, including military action, a German newspaper reported....		Priest shot dead in Turkey ANKARA, Feb 5: An Italian Roman Catholic priest was shot dead in his church in the Turkish Black Sea city of Trabzon on Sunday. CNN Turk television said police were looking...
Bush to propose Russia N-partnership: paper WASHINGTON, Feb 5: President George Bush will propose funding for the creation of an atomic energy partnership with Russia in his upcoming fiscal budget, according to the New York Times....		AL threatens to resign from parliament DHAKA, Feb 5: Awami League president Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday her party was considering moving the parliament over the opposition’s proposals for reforms in the caretaker administration and the election commission....
Shutdown on Lanka’s national day COLOMBO, Feb 5: Sri Lanka’s northeast came to a standstill on Saturday – the country’s independence day — in response to a call by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for a shutdown to protest ‘atrocities’ committed by the army....		Al Qaeda leader held in Iraq: TV BAGHDAD, Feb 5: Police have arrested the fourth-ranking figure in Al Qaeda in Iraq, state television said on Sunday, while officials are investigating whether the group’s leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had fled to neighbouring Iran....
Iraq coloured the debate over Iran VIENNA: The bruising diplomatic wars that preceded the US-led invasion of Iraq three years ago cast a long shadow over the debate on whether to report Iran to the UN Security Council and slowed efforts to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme....		Manchester and the socialist revolution LONDON: Jonathan Schofield is sitting at one of the most important tables in the history of the world. “Parts of the communist manifesto were written right here,” he says....
The era of mind control is near LONDON: Brain scientists are on a roll. Concern about rising levels of mental distress have resulted in unprecedented levels of funding in the US and Europe....		Car worship is killing the railroad LONDON: Even by his own standards of incoherence, George W Bush pulled a cracker when he declared Americans to be ‘addicted to oil’ and thus managed to be wrong twice in three words....