February 9, 2006	Thursday	Muharram 10, 1427

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US accuses Iran, Syria of stoking Muslim fury: Chirac slams media WASHINGTON, Feb 8: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday accused Iran and Syria of stoking Muslim anger against the West over the cartoon controversy....		Paper turned down Jesus cartoons COPENHAGEN, Feb 8: The Danish newspaper that first published the anti-Islam caricatures previously turned down cartoons of Jesus as too offensive, a cartoonist said on Wednesday....
Observers leave Al Khalil after riot AL KHALIL, Feb 8: A team of European observers on Wednesday pulled out of the West Bank city of Al Khalil (Hebron) after its offices were attacked in riots against the sacrilegious cartoons, a spokeswoman said....		Republican lawmaker calls for probe: Spying programme WASHINGTON, Feb 8: A Republican lawmaker whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency has broken ranks with the White House and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic spying programme, The New York Times reported on Wednesday....
France to accept Indian court order ALANG (India), Feb 8: France will take back asbestos from a decommissioned warship heading for an Indian shipbreaking yard if New Delhi asks, France’s ambassador said on Wednesday....		Bird flu spreads to Africa, kills Nigerian poultry KANO, Feb 8: The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread to Africa for the first time where it has killed poultry in northern Nigeria, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday....
Germans, Russian aid Iran make arms, say prosecutors BERLIN, Feb 8: Two German businessmen, a former Russian military officer and North Korea are among those helping Iran develop missiles that the West fears could one day carry nuclear warheads, diplomats and intelligence officials allege....		Yemen escape alarms Democrats WASHINGTON, Feb 8: Senate Democrats on Tuesday lambasted the Bush administration’s ‘totally inadequate’ response to the escape in Yemen this week of 23 Al Qaeda members....
Khaddam forms alliance with Brotherhood BEIRUT, Feb 8: Former Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam and the exiled leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood agreed on Wednesday to join forces to topple President Bashar al-Assad....		Royal command falls on deaf ears: Nepal holds municipal elections NEPALGUNJ: There are no political banners, no flags bearing party emblems and no campaign posters draped across the thoroughfares of Nepalgunj, a Nepali town on the grassy flatlands abutting India....
India’s infrastructure woes dampen growth MUMBAI: India needs to spend as much as $200 billion on boosting electricity supplies, running water, highways, ports and runways to bring its infrastructure to levels of other Asian nations....		Nepali teenager sings of revolution KATHMANDU: If there’s any truth to the old notion that Nepal is a country with one foot in the 16th century and the other in the 21st, then Rubin Ghandarba is its living embodiment....
Tobacco bill: a pipe of peace in Sri Lanka COLOMBO: A Buddhist monk, who tabled a bill in the Sri Lankan parliament to control the sale of tobacco and alcohol, says he is gratified at the wide support he has...		Lankan govt looking for changes in truce accord COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will seek to amend the ceasefire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels during negotiations in Geneva later this month despite opposition from the guerillas, official sources said on Wednesday....
Ambanis seek to ‘dispel confusion’ MUMBAI: With the legal agreement on the Reliance trademark more or less in place, the limelight will now quietly shift from the team of lawyers and finance wonks to the groups’ marketing folks....		Taliban offer reward ISLAMABAD: A top Taliban commander on Wednesday offered a reward of 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who kills the person responsible for the blasphemous cartoons...