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/ 27 October 2003
Former Mpumalanga premier-turned-businessman Mathews Phosa has been elected to the provincial African National Congress’s list of provincial and national candidates for next year’s elections, SABC Radio News reported on Monday. The ANC also announced on Monday that President Thabo Mbeki heads the North West’s national candidates nominations list.
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/ 27 October 2003
A series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital on Monday killed 26 civilians and eight policemen and wounded 224, interim Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ibrahim said. All five bombings across the Iraqi capital, including that at the headquarters of the International Committee for the Red Cross, were suicide attacks.
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Baghdad
Baghdad attack targets US hawk
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/ 27 October 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that Israel has no plans to kill Yasser Arafat but blamed the veteran Palestinian leader for the deaths of thousands of civilians. ”I don’t see any plans to kill him although the man is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews, mostly civilians,” said Sharon.
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/ 27 October 2003
Rescuers in a flooded mine in southern Russia raced against time on Monday to reach 13 men believed trapped in an airpocket with no food and air likely to run out within a day or two. Fears mounted over the fate of the 13, cut off from another group of 33 who were also trapped by the water but were rescued on Saturday.
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/ 27 October 2003
A Libyan newspaper, banned for two weeks for attacking Lebanese Shiite parties and some Arab governments, reappeared on newsstands on Monday with a new editor. Az-Zahf Al-Akhdar, an ideological journal of the Revolutionary Committees, was banned on October 13 for publishing several articles attacking the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and leader of the Shiite Amal party
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/ 27 October 2003
The leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party youth brigade have had themselves tested for HIV/Aids at the party’s headquarters in Durban. The group said it had taken "the bold step of having ourselves tested" in line with a resolution taken by the IFP youth brigade conference held in Ulundi at the end of August.
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/ 27 October 2003
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) will not succeed without sound, well-regulated financial markets, FirstRand Banking Group CEO Paul Harris said on Monday. "The African renaissance … won’t happen unless the continent develops its soft infrastructure," Harris said.
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/ 27 October 2003
Judge Joos Hefer should subpoena members of the intelligence agencies to testify before him, Hefer commission evidence leader Kessie Naidu argued on Monday. ”We should leave the ball fairly and squarely in the agencies’ court,” Naidu said.
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/ 27 October 2003
The South African government’s silence on the persecution of the owners and staff of the Zimbabwean newspaper The Daily News by the authorities in that country, is scandalous, Democratic Alliance spokesperson Graham McIntosh said on Monday.
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/ 27 October 2003
Wildfires fed by hot Santa Ana winds have flared into gigantic waves of flame that devoured entire neighbourhoods, choked skies over southern California with ash and killed 13 people in the state’s deadliest wildfire tragedy in a half-century.