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/ 23 September 2004
Free-to-air television station e.tv did not broadcast footage of the beheading of an American hostage in Iraq as reported on Thursday, the station said. The station’s editor-in-chief, Joe Thloloe, said on Thursday reports that stated his station had aired footage of the beheading in the manner that SABC1 did were not entirely correct.
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/ 23 September 2004
The South African government on Thursday welcomed the decision by the United States to lift sanctions against Libya and the European Union’s provisional approval for a partial lifting of sanctions. On Monday, US President George Bush released ,3-billion in frozen Libyan assets.
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/ 23 September 2004
Despite an outcry from the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), South Africa’s first National Fireworks Competition is set to go ahead, NSPCA spokesperson Christine Kuch said on Thursday. ”It makes me sick to the teeth,” Kuch said
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/ 23 September 2004
Iraq’s interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, thanked the United States on Thursday for liberating his country and said Iraq is on the path to success. ”We are succeeding in Iraq,” he told a joint session of Congress. The US has made ”enormous sacrifices” in Iraq, Allawi said, vowing that those ”sacrifices are not in vein”.
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/ 23 September 2004
Czechs are being offered two beers in return for their blood in an effort to recruit blood and bone-marrow donors. Anyone donating blood as part of the ”beer for blood” campaign taking place in Prague on Friday will receive two half-litre glasses of beer in return.
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/ 23 September 2004
Hurricane Ivan is making an encore appearance in the Gulf of Mexico, this time as a tropical storm that could come ashore along the coasts of Texas or Louisiana. After hitting Florida on September 16 as a hurricane, Ivan weakened and broke apart. Its remnants then swung southward, growing as they travelled over warmer waters.
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/ 23 September 2004
An anthrax outbreak that has killed close to 200 buffaloes, elephants and a hippo in Botswana has spread to Namibia, where it is posing a serious threat to livestock, officials said on Thursday. ”We have received reports that the disease has crossed into Namibia,” said acting wildlife district coordinator Obert Gwapela.
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/ 23 September 2004
With handpumps, latrines and the unimaginable luxury of electricity, the inhabitants of Cestos City in eastern Liberia are slowly rebuilding their ruined town under the shadow of epidemic illness. ”The war has destroyed everything we had,” said Emmet Kay, looking around him at the barren landscape that used to be a large village.
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/ 23 September 2004
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Thursday said trying to determine the fair value of the rand is akin to searching for the "holy grail". The fair price of the rand, he told business students at Wits University, is "the price that’s just traded". He said the price of a currency is "merely a price reflecting the value of goods and services in the international markets".
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/ 23 September 2004
Residents of a village in Limpopo marched to the Chamber of Mines in Johannesburg on Thursday, protesting against being ”forcibly removed” to make way for an Anglo Platinum mine. The community of GaPila, near Mokopane, was moved to Sterkwater to allow an Anglo Platinum mine to use the area, the protesters said.