February 23, 2006	Thursday	Muharram 24, 1427

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Bush warns of vetoing move against UAE deal: Control of ports WASHINGTON, Feb 22: US President George Bush on Tuesday threatened to veto any legislation delaying a controversial deal giving a United Arab Emirates company control of operations at six major US ports....		Britain in‘war against evil’, says Reid LONDON, Feb 22: Britain is facing a war against ‘evil Islamist extremists’, Defence Secretary John Reid said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday...
Egypt rebuffs Rice plea to stop Hamas aid CAIRO, Feb 22: Egypt rebuffed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s appeal on Tuesday for Arab states to deny direct aid to Hamas when it forms a government....		Muslims face big test: NYT NEW YORK, Feb 22: The international furore over the anti-Islam caricatures has pitted Muslims against Muslims as protests over the issue become more violent in some countries, said the New York Times in a report on Wednesday....
100 dead in US custody: body LONDON, Feb 22: Nearly 100 prisoners have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since Aug 2002, the Human Rights First organisation said on Wednesday ahead of the publication of their report....		Charles’s remarks against Chinese leaders stir storm LONDON, Feb 22: Britain’s Prince Charles intended to be hostile when he described China’s leaders as ‘appalling old waxworks’ in private diaries that he is fighting to keep out of the...
Annan pins hopes on HR council UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22: As deep differences on the balance of power in the United Nations surfaced among the G-77 group of 132 members from developing countries and Western nations, Secretary...		Iraqis counselled restraint AMMAN, Feb 22: Western and Muslim leaders urged Iraqis to exercise restraint after Wednesday’s bombing in Samarra of a historic shrine....
UK party to print cartoon LONDON, Feb 22: The far-right British National Party (BNP) said on Wednesday it would distribute leaflets showing one of the sacrilegious cartoons published by Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper — a move Muslim groups said would provoke protests and was ‘playing with fire’....		AL urges Hamas to recognise Israel BRUSSELS, Feb 22: Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa urged Hamas on Wednesday to recognise Israel by backing a 2002 Arab peace formula calling for independent Israeli and Palestinian states....
Talks with Iran not easy: Putin BAKU, Feb 22: Talks with Iran on a Russian plan to resolve international tensions over Tehran’s nuclear programme are not progressing easily, Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Wednesday....		Historian says he won’t be silenced LONDON, Feb 22: David Irving, a British historian who was jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust took place, said on Wednesday he had the ‘right to be wrong’ and vowed not to be silenced....
Lawyer fears secret evidence SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 22: Attorney Jihad Smaili has expressed concern that secret evidence and other post-9/11 legal manoeuvres will be used against KindHearts, whose accounts have been frozen by the Treasury Department....		US commander admits torture UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22: The military commander responsible for the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay confirmed a New York Times report that officials there last month turned to more aggressive...
Lanka talks off to rocky start CELIGNY (Switzerland), Feb 22: Sri Lanka’s warring parties ended a three-year deadlock in peace efforts by meeting on Wednesday at a peaceful Swiss chateau, but their ice-breaking talks got off to a rocky start....		India caught off guard by bird flu MUMBAI: India’s first confirmed cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza or ‘bird flu’ surfaced in western Maharashtra state, over the weekend, catching authorities unprepared and threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of poultry workers, in this populous, farming country....
Women in quake areas start speaking out ABBOTABAD: On a bitter cold afternoon, late January, about 600 women, quite a few with eyes barely showing through veils, trooped into a huge marquee to make their feelings known about the poor progress of rehabilitation after the devastating Oct....		Mine-clearing work in Tamil-controlled areas is a tough job KILLINOCHCHI: With a five feet rake in hand 32-year-old Lalithchandran ignores the scorching sun and concentrates on the job that he has been doing for the past three years – looking...
Sri Lanka truce talks and frosty handshake CELIGNY (Switzerland): A frosty hand-shake in this Swiss village marked the start of talks aimed at dousing war fears in tropical Sri Lanka where 60,000 people have been killed in three-decades of ethnic bloodshed....		India eyes 3 more Russian frigates NEW DELHI: Impressed with the sheer lethality of the three Talwar-class “stealth” frigates inducted into the Navy during 2003-2004, India is close to finalising another contract with Russia for three more such warships....