سانچہ:In the news
- U.S.-led occupation of Iraq: Witnesses and hospital officials say that 22 Iraqis, among them children, women and youth, were killed in a U.S. air strike in a residential neighborhood in Fallujah.
- Leaders of 25 countries agree on a draft European Constitution for the European Union at the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels. Croatia is accepted as a candidate for joining the EU.
- Kidnapped hostage Paul Johnson is beheaded by militants linked to Al Qaeda.
- Vladimir Putin says that Russia had warned the United States several times before the 2003 invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein was planning terrorist attacks against the U.S.
- Colombia's left-wing FARC rebels claim responsibility for the massacre of 34 coca farmers found dead earlier this week.