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May 31, 2006 Wednesday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 3, 1427 Daewoo founder gets 10-year jail term SEOUL, May 30: Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo-Choong was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for fraud and embezzlement relating to the collapse of the firm under 82 billion... Iran ready for talks with US if it ‘changes behaviour’ PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), May 30: Iran said on Tuesday it wanted to resume nuclear negotiations with the EU and could even talk to Washington if its arch-foe ‘changes behaviour’.... Iraqi PM ridicules US troops for ‘mistakes’ BAGHDAD, May 30: Iraq’s new prime minister said on Tuesday his patience was wearing thin with excuses from US troops that they kill civilians by mistake.... Bombs, shootings kill 53 in Iraq BAGHDAD, May 30: Violence killed 53 people in Iraq on Tuesday. Twenty-two Iraqis were killed and 58 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a crowded popular market place at sunset in Husseiniya, just northeast of the capital.... Saddam witness says ‘executed’ people still alive BAGHDAD, May 30: A witness for Saddam Hussein appeared to dispute prosecution allegations that 148 people were executed after a failed assassination bid in 1982, telling the court on Tuesday that some of them were still alive.... Hamas MPs defy Israeli order JERUSALEM, May 30: A group of Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament and a minister in the Islamists’ cabinet rejected on Tuesday an order by Israeli authorities to resign or be expelled from occupied east Jerusalem.... Afghan parliament seeks culprits’ arrest KABUL, May 30: Afghanistan’s parliament demanded on Tuesday the arrest of those responsible for a deadly crash by a US military truck that set off the worst riots here since the... South Asia a major AIDS worry: UN GENEVA, May 30: The subcontinent is a major cause of concern in the global AIDS epidemic, with India alone accounting for two-thirds of HIV cases in the whole of Asia, according... Arrogance of US troops fed Afghan riot KABUL: Social frustration, anger at the arrogance of US troops and sheer criminality were fuel for the violent demonstrations that engulfed the Afghan capital, analysts said on Tuesday.... Arctic vault to protect seeds OSLO, May 30: A frozen ‘Noah’s Ark’ to safeguard the world’s crop seeds from cataclysms will be built on a remote Arctic island off Norway, the Norwegian government said on Tuesday.... Bollywood backs Aamir in dam row MUMBAI, May 30: Bollywood has come out fighting for leading actor Aamir Khan whose latest film has been blackballed by cinemas fearing mob violence because of the actor’s comments about a controversial dam.... EU court bars passenger data transfer to US LUXEMBOURG, May 30: The EU’s top court scrapped on Tuesday a decision forcing airlines to give data about European passengers to US authorities as part of their post-September 11 security crackdown.... Japanese director Imamura dies at 79 TOKYO, May 30: Director Shohei Imamura, who portrayed modern Japan’s downtrodden in raw realism and eroticism and became the first Japanese to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes twice, died of cancer here on Tuesday.... Iraqi PM threatens action in Basra BAGHDAD, May 30: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki said on Tuesday he will overrule squabbling parties in his coalition and present parliament with his personal nominees for two key security posts if they fail to agree this week.... Man drowns trying to save toy boat MIAMI, May 30: A Florida man drowned after jumping onto an inflatable raft and paddling out to the middle of a lake to try to retrieve a stalled, radio-controlled toy boat.... Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics LONDON: Britain’s largest lecturers’ union has voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel’s apartheid policies.... The silent tsunami of east Africa LONDON: Sahara peeped at me from behind her mother. She had just come out of hospital where she had been treated for malnutrition. All her family’s cattle and goats had died in the north Kenyan drought.... Coalition of the erring WASHINGTON: Imagine where British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be if he hadn’t joined with President Bush in prosecuting the Iraq war. It’s hard to resist imagining an alternative universe after... Hollywood to remake Bollywood film NEW DELHI: After decades of borrowing from western movie scripts, Bollywood is poised to have one of its biggest films remade in Hollywood. Munnabhai MBBS, starring Sanjay Dutt, a hit about... US deploys 1,500 troops WASHINGTON, May 30: The US military has deployed about 1,500 additional troops to Iraq to back up US and Iraqi forces trying to restore order in western Al Anbar province, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday....

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