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New Delhi’s police chief, who snared former South Africa cricket skipper Hansie Cronje for match-fixing in 2001, faces being fined for allowing mosquitoes to breed at his offices, an official said on Friday. His office was the subject of a sting operation by health workers fighting dengue fever.
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/ 17 September 2004
At least five policemen were killed and another 20 wounded, many of them policemen, when a suicide bomber smashed a powerful car bomb into a police patrol in Baghdad on Friday, the Health Ministry and police sources said. The suicide bomber rammed his car against a police vehicle, one of eight in a patrol.
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/ 17 September 2004
Tropical Storm Jeanne crept toward the Bahamas, drenching the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with rains that killed three people and carved out a path of destruction marked by damaged homes, flooding and toppled trees. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Karl has formed in the far eastern Atlantic.
Florida bears brunt of Ivan
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/ 17 September 2004
A Randburg engineer charged under weapons of mass destruction and nuclear energy laws has already told international authorities that he had no business dealings with Libya, the Vanderbijlpark Regional Court heard on Friday. Gerhard Wisser was questioned by German authorities last month.
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/ 17 September 2004
Drag queens are most welcome at Johannesburg’s 15th Gay Pride march next weekend, despite media rumours to the contrary, the organisers said on Friday. Metro police had earlier in the week said that drag queens would be prevented from marching, because it is illegal to disguise one’s appearance at a public gathering.
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/ 17 September 2004
At least 12 people were killed and 40 injured when a tanker truck exploded near the town of Kindia, east of the Guinean capital, corroborating sources said on Friday. The blast occurred overnight on Wednesday when the tanker truck crashed into a freight truck that was badly parked at the roadside and difficult to see in the dark, witnesses said.
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/ 17 September 2004
At least 44 people were killed on Friday as United States forces continued their relentless strikes against targets allegedly connected to al-Qaeda-linked extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi near Fallujah, medical sources said, adding that many of the victims were women and children.
Suicide car bombing kills five
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/ 17 September 2004
The African National Congress is scaring away prospective investors from South Africa with ”outlandish tirades” against so-called white capital, not seeming to realise that money knows no colour, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday in his weekly newsletter on the DA’s website.
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/ 17 September 2004
Three South Korean dog-meat lovers were facing a  000 lawsuit after cooking and eating their employer’s pedigree dog, a news report said on Friday. The men, all in their 50s and employed at a car-hire firm, killed and served up the dog in a traditional Korean soup dish during the employer’s absence from the company parking lot where the animal was tethered, Yonhap news agency reported.
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/ 17 September 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Thursday presented an application to split its radio and television services into public and commercial broadcasting. The split would see three radio stations (Metro FM, 5fm and Good Hope FM) and television channel SABC3 broadcasting commercially.