February 22, 2006	Wednesday	Muharram 23, 1427

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Iran spurns Russian demand for enrichment freeze MOSCOW, Feb 21: Iran showed few signs on Tuesday that it was ready to strike a deal with Russia that could allay fears it wants nuclear arms and avert possible UN sanctions....		Complaint filed against editor OSLO, Feb 21: A Norwegian Muslim has reported to the police a newspaper editor who published the blasphemous cartoons, invoking a law last used in 1933 against a poet who called Christians cannibals....
Abbas asks Hamas to form govt GAZA, Feb 21: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked Hamas prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday to form a government, officials said. At a meeting in Gaza, Mr Abbas handed a letter...		200,000 birds culled in India: Flu virus NAVAPUR, Feb 21: More than 200,000 chickens were slaughtered by Tuesday after India’s first outbreak of bird flu as officials admitted some failings in systems for reporting the deadly virus....
French minister sees anti-Semitic link in Jew’s death PARIS, Feb 21: French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy denounced the torture and killing of a young Jewish man as an anti-Semitic crime on Tuesday and said police had found literature linking some suspects to Muslim causes....		Landslide: no trace found of school GUINSAUGON (Philippines), Feb 21: Rescuers on Tuesday dug down towards a buried school during their search for some 1,400 people entombed by a Philippine landslide, but said it was time to face the truth that the missing must now be dead....
Indian envoy optimistic WASHINGTON, Feb 21: There is a ‘clear convergence’ of interests between the United States and India on the nuclear issue and that’s why they would be able to sort out their...		Bush for building nuclear plants MILWAUKEE, Feb 21: US President George Bush on Monday warned that US dependency on oil left the country ‘hostage’ to countries that may be hostile and urged new nuclear plant construction by 2010....
Indian govt urged to cut ties with Denmark NEW DELHI, Feb 21: Several leading Indian politicians on Tuesday called upon the government to sever ties with Denmark to protest the publication of controversial cartoons....		US, India ready for crucial talks WASHINGTON, Feb 21: US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns left Washington for New Delhi on Tuesday for talks seen as a last-ditch effort to iron out differences between the US and...
Turkey slams Israel over sanctions ANKARA, Feb 21: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday criticised Israel’s use of economic sanctions against Palestinians for voting Hamas into power and defended Ankara’s decision to hold talks with the militant group....		Serb fugitive Mladic arrested? BELGRADE: Confusion surrounded the fate of top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic on Tuesday after the Tanjug news agency quoted a television station as saying that he had been arrested....
Hamas faces battle to govern in isolation OCCUPIED AL QUDS: Winning the Palestinian election now looks like the easy part for Hamas. The government it must set up in the next five weeks faces possible financial collapse, with...		David Irving paid heavy price for denying Holocaust LODON: David Irving’s court appearance in Vienna is the latest in a long line of legal battles in which the far-right historian has been involved stretching back almost 40 years....
Haiti — a country at boiling point LONDON: In his magisterial work The Black Jacobins, about the slave revolt in Haiti that led to the country’s independence, CLR James concluded “that the new nation survived at all is...		Spread of English ‘threatens UK, US’ LONDON: The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report....
Singer aims to fill ‘spirituality’ gap in pop CAIRO: A singer who has shot to fame in the Middle East with songs about Islam says his music is quenching a thirst for spirituality in pop....		France marks Verdun battle anniversary VERDUN (France): France on Tuesday marked the 90th anniversary of the start of the World War I battle of Verdun, the 10 months of mutual bombardment by the French and German...
Al Qaeda fighting to reinstate Taliban: Libi PARIS: The Al Qaeda network is waging jihad in Afghanistan in an effort to restore the Taliban government, an Al Qaeda operative said in an audiotape posted on Tuesday on the Internet....		Three indicted on terror charges NEW YORK: A US federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted three Muslim men in Cleveland, Ohio, on charges that they planned attacks to kill US soldiers in Iraq and other countries....