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/ 26 October 2003
A wildfire has leaped through dense housing tracts in the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains in California, destroying more than 200 homes, threatening 1 000 others and forcing thousands of people to flee under a sky thick with smoke and tinged orange-red by flames.
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/ 26 October 2003
Two strong earthquakes shook a remote region of northwestern China’s desertlands, killing at least eight people, the government said on Sunday. The quakes — magnitudes 6,1 and 5,8 — hit Gansu province within seven minutes, and damage to reservoirs left a large patch of land in danger of flooding.
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/ 26 October 2003
The hotel in Baghdad where United States Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz was staying was hit on Sunday morning by explosive projectiles in an attack that wounded at least three people. Details were sketchy, but Wolfowitz, who was staying at the Al Rasheed hotel, was said not to have been injured.
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/ 26 October 2003
Police in Zimbabwe on Saturday arrested at least 18 Daily News workers and shut down the embattled paper only hours after it reappeared on the streets after a month-long government ban. The paper resumed publishing a day after a court ruled it be issued with an operating licence.
Daily News must be given a licence
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/ 26 October 2003
The trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, set to resume next week, has been postponed for the second time. The marathon trial, which started in February this year, was supposed to see Tsvangirai being cross-examined by state lawyers on his role in allegedly plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 26 October 2003
It is almost 10 years since apartheid ended and the government has published its draft review of its first decade in power to hold up a mirror to its own performance. It is good in parts, patchy in others: for example, there are more poor households than in 1994 when the African National Congress was voted in.
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/ 26 October 2003
In theory it should be the greatest mismatch in the history of sport. If they were boxers, any sane doctor wouldn’t even let them get in to the ring togther. But this afternoon, under the roof in Melbourne, it’s Jonny Wilkinson versus Earl Va’a. The millionaire takes on the pauper. The obsessive kicker against a man who practices "perhaps an hour a week".
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/ 26 October 2003
Redemption arrived for Irish rugby Sunday, four long years and 80 agonising minutes after their most harrowing World Cup defeat. Ireland held on for a thrilling 16-15 victory over Argentina at Adelaide Oval, avenging the loss that knocked them out of the 1999 tournament.
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/ 26 October 2003
Late tries by Iain Balshaw and Phil Vickery spared England the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history on Sunday as the hotly favoured stars scrambled a 35-22 victory over Samoa in easily the best game yet of the championship. The Samoans led 10-0 early and 16-13 at halftime.