DAWN - International; July 06, 2007

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July 06, 2007	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 20, 1428

Israelis kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza GAZA CITY, July 5: Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinian fighters in fierce clashes on Thursday while ground troops backed by air power pushed into the Gaza Strip, stepping up pressure on the Hamas-run enclave....		Tamil Tigers remember suicide bombers COLOMBO, July 5: At least three people were killed in fresh violence in Sri Lanka on Thursday as the Tamil Tigers commemorated 322 suicide bombers who have blown themselves up in the past 20 years, officials said....

Party leader accuses Hasina of dictatorship DHAKA, July 5: The detained general secretary of Awami League, Abdul Jalil, has accused the party president, Sheikh Hasina, of running the party affairs unilaterally and decided to quit politics, if necessary....		Baghdad car bomb kills 17 at wedding BAGHDAD, July 5: A car bomb ripped through guests at a wedding party in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding the bride and groom, security and defence officials said....

Turkish government wins court challenge: Electoral reforms ANKARA, July 5: Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected demands to annul government reforms introducing the election of the president by popular vote, a major victory for the Islamist-rooted ruling party....		Landslide engulfs bus; 60 killed PUEBLA, Mexico, July 5: Rescuers pulled more bodies, including children, on Thursday from the wreckage of a bus swallowed by a landslide in Mexico which may have killed up to 60 people, local authorities said....

It’s a small world after all, say researchers BONN, July 5: The world is smaller than first thought, German researchers at the University of Bonn said on Thursday. They took part in an international project to measure the diameter of the world that showed it is five millimetres (0.2...		Return depends on fair trial: Thaksin TOKYO, July 5: Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Thursday he will only return to Thailand to face corruption charges if he can be sure of a fair trial....

Sarkozy in the hot seat with EU partners PARIS, July 5: French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be in the hot seat next week in Brussels where his plans to slow French momentum toward a balanced budget have unsettled some European partners....		Couples vying to get married on 7-7-7 LAS VEGAS, July 5: In Las Vegas you roll the dice and hope they come up seven: on Saturday thousands of newlyweds-to-be will descend on this desert city to gamble that the lucky number holds the key to marital bliss....

Investigators raid former French PM’s home PARIS, July 5: French investigators raided the home of former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin on Thursday after fresh evidence came to light in a dirty tricks scandal targeting President Nicolas Sarkozy....		Men are as talkative as women, says study CHICAGO, July 5: When it comes to yakking, men and women are equal opportunity offenders, according to a study published on Thursday that challenges the notion that women like to gab more than men....

Oldest DNA shows a warmer planet WASHINGTON, July 5: Scientists probed two kilometres through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record and discovered that the planet was warmer than believed during the last Ice Age, according to a study released on Thursday....		America should learn a lesson from Sarkozy WASHINGTON: The country is at a crossroads, a different kind of place from where we’ve been before. The special interests seem more reactionary and entrenched than ever, the bureaucracies much larger....

Running a car on veg-power LONDON: Do you want to slash your fuel bill? Well, why not run your car on vegetable oil as some people already do especially if they run older models of diesel,...		China using financial means to restrain its big polluters BEIJING: After a series of failed administrative campaigns to enforce pollution controls, China is now hoping to use financial means to restrain its big polluters. Forming a rare alliance, the...

Western forces unlikely to cut use of air power in Afghanistan BRUSSELS: Western forces are unlikely to curtail the use of lethal air power against Taliban forces in Afghanistan, despite a wave of civilian casualties threatening support for the mission, analysts and military sources say....		Summer fun missing in fear-filled Beirut BEIRUT: MPs are taking their summer holidays early and young Beirutis are taking to the rooftops of hip clubs as fear fills the air in the normally buzzing Lebanese capital.“We...

Pious Turks find their place in the sun ALANYA (Turkey): The Bera Alanya is a five-star hotel on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast where men and women have separate swimming pools and female customers enjoy freedoms they often do not find in the public sector....		Two-day-old baby found alive in grave HYDERABAD (India): A two-day-old baby girl was found alive in a grave in southern India on Thursday after she had been buried by her grandfather who did not want to bear the cost of bringing up a girl, authorities said....

British girl kidnapped in Nigeria PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria): Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in Nigeria on Thursday, police and witnesses said, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in the country''s main oil-producing zone....		India to send back paedophile to US CHENNAI: A convicted American paedophile who jumped parole and fled to Asia is expected to be sent back to the United States in the coming days, Indian police said on Thursday....

Russia refuses to extradite murder suspect MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday officially refused a request from Britain to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, the Russian prosecutor general''s office said....		Four villages burnt down in Assam NEW DELHI: Armed residents of India’s north- eastern state of Nagaland have burnt down villages in the neighbouring state of Assam, BBC reported. Two villagers were killed when hundreds of Nagaland...