March 15, 2006	Wednesday	Safar 14, 1427

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Bush blames Iran for Iraq bomb explosions WASHINGTON, March 14: US President George Bush, stepping up a war of words with Iran, accused it of contributing to ever-deadlier roadside bombs used against US-led forces and civilians in Iraq....		Moscow, Tehran resume talks MOSCOW, March 14: Russia held confidential talks n Moscow with Iran on Tuesday on a compromise proposal for resolving the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program. Russia made clear in the talks...
US charge against China, Russia UNITED NATIONS, March 14: The United States on Tuesday accused China and Russia of blocking agreement on a statement by the United Nations Security Council that Iran must suspend uranium enrichment activities, US Ambassador John Bolton said....		China, India will usher in ‘Asian century’: Wen: Taiwan warned over independence move BEIJING, March 14: China and India will usher in a ‘new Asian century’, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday, as he expressed hopes the world’s two most populous countries would build on their improving relations....
Judge threatens to revoke Moussaoui’s death penalty ALEXANDRIA (USA), March 14: Prosecutors on Tuesday fought to save the death penalty trial of Al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui as a judge weighed whether to throw out the case because of coaching of witnesses by a government lawyer....		70,000 besiege Thai PM’s office BANGKOK, March 14: Tens of thousands of protesters blockaded Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s office on Tuesday to demand he step down, as military leaders distanced themselves from his warnings of emergency rule if violence breaks out....
Milosevic’s widow allowed to visit Serbia BELGRADE, March 14: A Serbian court on Tuesday revoked an arrest warrant for the widow of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, clearing a major legal hurdle to holding his funeral in Belgrade....		China likely to buy Australian uranium SYDNEY, March 14: Australia expects to sign an agreement soon to sell uranium to China after negotiations aimed at preventing its use in nuclear weapons, the government said on Tuesday....
US ‘buildup’ in Caspian alarms Russia MOSCOW, March 14: Russia cautioned the United States on Tuesday against raising its military presence in the strategic Caspian Sea region bordering Iran, saying buildup of forces from ‘outside would destabilise the region....		Maoists launch blockade in Nepal KATHMANDU, March 14: The first day of a week-long Maoist rebel road blockade in Nepal left highways across the nation deserted, piling fresh pressure on Nepal’s King Gyanendra who seized power 13 months ago....
Israel plans to annex West Bank area TEL AVIV, March 14: Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited the Jewish settlement of Ariel deep in the West Bank on Tuesday, and the Haaretz newspaper said he plans to announce that Ariel will eventually become part of Israel....		Two militants killed in Syria DAMASCUS, March 14: Syrian security forces killed a wanted militant and his bodyguard in a raid near Damascus on Tuesday. The agency said the two men, members of Jund al Sham...
Bush is now as unpopular as his father WASHINGTON: Teaching the history of revolutions has been easy at Harvard this semester. As if to illustrate exactly how these strange historical upheavals work, the university has obligingly staged a revolution of its own....		Europe-US convergence thinner than it appears: UN session on Iran GENEVA: As the United States began making the case in the UN Security Council this week for what its Ambassador John Bolton calls “painful consequences” if Iran continues with its controversial...
US needs a dose of Russian medicine, says Gorbachev LONDON: Twenty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev unveiled perestroika and with it the beginning of the end of the cold war, forcing what was then the world’s second superpower to take stock of the gap between its grand designs and crumbling infrastructure....		BP drugs may combat Alzheimer’s: study CHICAGO: Medications used to combat high blood pressure appear to be linked to a lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published on Monday....
Islamic banking getting popular in Gulf DAMASCUS: Islamic banking, once a curiosity, is growing phenomenally, grabbing the lion’s share of business in key markets such as the Gulf, the head of an organisation tracking the system said on Tuesday....		Guantanamo prisoners denied justice LONDON: The coincidental release of Michael Winterbottom’s prize-winning film about the young men from Tipton, Road to Guantánamo, and Moazzam Begg’s book, Enemy Combatant, predictably brought the US and British spin...
David Irving barred from speaking to media LONDON: The jailed British Holocaust denier David Irving has been banned from talking to the press after he continued to question the Holocaust from his cell and said he was a victim of Jewish persecution....		Human toll from bird flu crosses 100 BAKU: The worldwide human toll from bird flu has crossed 100 with the death of three people in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, health authorities here said on Tuesday....