February 15, 2006	Wednesday	Muharram 16, 1427

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Israel has ‘annexed’ Jordan Valley: HR group’s finding Occupied JERUSALEM: Israel has effectively annexed the Jordan Valley — about a third of the occupied West Bank — by barring almost all Palestinians from entering the region, an Israeli human rights group said on Monday....		UN asks US to shut down prison at Guantanamo UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14: Five UN human rights experts recommended the United States close down Guantanamo Bay after concluding the forced-feeding of detainees and other interrogation techniques amounted to acts of torture, according to a draft report obtained on Monday....
Court dissolves panel set up by Gyanendra: Ex-Nepal PM freed after ruling KATHMANDU, Feb 14: Nepal’s jailed former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was freed from prison on Monday after the supreme court dissolved the controversial anti-graft panel which jailed him, striking a blow to King Gyanendra....		Saddam says he is on hunger strike BAGHDAD, Feb 14: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein on Tuesday told the court trying him that he and his co-defendants have launched a hunger strike....
Cheney broke law, says Texas dept WASHINGTON, Feb 14: Vice President Dick Cheney was given a warning citation on Monday for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing him to shoot upland game birds....		Sharon’s son jailed for breaking campaign law TEL AVIV, Feb 14: Omri Sharon, the disgraced son of Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was on Tuesday sentenced to nine months in prison on corruption charges over financing his father’s party leadership campaign....
Scholar helping US on N-deal WASHINGTON, Feb 14: The man appointed to assist the Bush administration’s chief negotiator for India-US nuclear deal firmly believes that Washington needs to recognize India as a nuclear power....		Italian minister puts cartoon on T-shirts ROME, Feb 14: Italy’s Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with the anti-Islam cartoons in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government....
‘US agents in India’ for Al Qaeda hunt WASHINGTON, Feb 14: Clandestine US intelligence operatives have been working in deep cover within India to help track down Al Qaeda operatives and other terrorist groups, media reports said on Tuesday....		German film on Dresden bombing confronts taboos BERLIN: Germany’s first fictional film about the Allied bombing of Dresden was screened on Monday on the 61st anniversary of the firestorm, in a fresh sign the country is finally confronting its own wartime suffering....
A political blueprint for Iraq Washington: From the moment the US decided to remove the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein and help Iraqis establish a representative government, one of our key challenges has been enabling the...		Assad’s defiant message DAMASCUS: A year after the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, Syria is sending a defiant signal to the world by naming as vice-president a man who rarely shies away from verbal confrontation with the West....
Basra council cuts off ties with UK mly BASRA: Basra provincial council on Monday suspended relations with the British following new claims of abuse of Iraqis by UK troops, British military officials said....		DNA test of Joan of Arc PARIS: History contends that the ashes of Saint Joan of Arc were gathered from the pyre on which she was burned alive and tossed into the river Seine....
Comedians take aim at Cheney gaffe WASHINGTON: US comedians and satirists have seized upon Vice President Dick Cheney’s quail hunting accident, in which he fired shotgun pellets at a lawyer friend Harry Whittington....		Smuggling of human head MIAMI: A Haitian national who packed a skull in her suitcase on a flight to Florida’s Fort Lauderdale airport was charged with “smuggling a human head.”...