March 8, 2006	Wednesday	Safar 7, 1427

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US has ‘opened Pandora’s box’: Khalilzad BAGHDAD, March 7: The United States conceded on Tuesday that the occupation of Iraq had opened the Pandora’s box and the country could yet descend into civil war....		General shot dead in Baghdad: Shrine blown up in Tikrit BAGHDAD, March 7: One of the highest-ranking generals in Iraq’s new, US-trained army was shot dead in Baghdad on Monday. Major General Mubdar Hatim al Dulaimi, commander of all Iraqi forces...
UK to begin pullout in weeks: official LONDON, March 7: Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview published on Tuesday....		US rejects Russian proposal on Iran VIENNA, March 7: Stiff US opposition and a refusal by Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment appeared on Tuesday to doom a Russian compromise designed to head off UN Security Council action on Tehran’s atomic programme....
Guantanamo detainee accused of having digital watch ONE of the main allegations against one of the detainees being held at the US military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay is that he had in his possession a watch of...		Kofi Annan unveils reform plan UNITED NATIONS, March 7: Amidst concern by developing countries and UN employees over management reforms, Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday unveiled a ‘far-reaching overhaul’ of the world body ranging from...
Tel Aviv threatens to target Haniyeh AL QUDS, March 7: Israel could target Hamas leaders, including Palestinian prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh, if the militant group resumes attacks in the Jewish state, Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Tuesday....		Iranians infiltrating Iraq: US WASHINGTON, March 7: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran on Tuesday of sending Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq, and warned Tehran it was ‘an error in judgement’....
Acceptance of draft sought UNITED NATIONS, March 7: The UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson said on Monday that he is ‘encouraged’ by support for the proposed Human Rights Council from five Nobel Peace Prize...		Thailand enters new political territory BANGKOK: Nobody really knows how the political crisis threatening Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will play out. With the urban middle classes in revolt and Bangkok rife with rumours of a...
Ending war in Yemen is a tough task SANAA: Yemen has freed more than 600 Shia rebels as part of an amnesty that it hopes will end three years of fighting in the north of the country....		Peacemakers lose hope of ending Cyprus divide NICOSIA: After decades of braving insults, harassment and even violence in their efforts to bring rival communities in Cyprus together, peace activists on the divided Mediterranean island finally admit they are demoralised....
World has forgotten Bosnian war’s victims BELGRADE: “When I gave birth to her, I didn’t want to see her...but on the second day, when I took her to my breast, I realised that she was the only beauty remaining in this world and so I kept her.”...		Join Brazil and ‘plant’ oil BRASILIA: The 21st century will be marked by a crucial debate: how can we make economic and social development compatible with the preservation of our natural environment? The challenge is faced...
New technologies can help counter global warming WASHINGTON: New industrial technologies and novel financial ideas can help the fight against global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to scientists and climate experts gathered here by the World Bank....		Kuwait becomes gas producer KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait, which already sits on 10 per cent of global oil reserves, has finally entered the club of gas producers after unveiling the discovery for the first time of huge quantities of natural gas....
UK troops shot at policemen, say Iraqis BASRA: An Iraqi security official on Tuesday accused British soldiers of shooting and wounding four Iraqis, among them police officers, in the southern port city of Basra....		Plane looted at Swedish airport STOCKHOLM: Police partly evacuated Sweden’s second biggest airport on Tuesday because of a suspect package found after armed robbers made off with valuable goods being unloaded from a plane....
Sheehan, three others arrested NEW YORK: Four anti-war activists, including Cindy Sheehan, accompanying a group of Iraqi women were arrested by New York police at the US Mission to the United Nations on Monday afternoon...		Japanese oppose woman monarch TOKYO: Thousands of people gathered under a huge rising sun flag at a Tokyo stadium on Tuesday to protest against a proposal to allow women and their children to accede to Japan’s ancient Chrysanthemum throne....