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A powerful explosion went off outside the Australian embassy in central Jakarta on Thursday, killing up to nine people and injuring as many as 100 injured in the blast, sources said. Officials at the nearby MMC Hospital in the Kuningan district, home to many foreign embassies, said that five Indonesians had been killed, including an embassy security guard and driver, and 99 others were brought to the hospital for treatment.
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Parliament did not approve a court application to stop the Mail & Guardian publishing allegations of irregularities in the National Council of Provinces, it emerged on Wednesday. ”I mistakenly assumed that Parliaments’ presiding officers authorised this application. This was not the case,” said NCOP office manager Moroka Butcher Matutle.
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/ 9 September 2004
Stunned British and American scientists watched a seven-year dream fall to Earth on Wednesday at 240kph, potentially smashing the fruits of a -million mission. A parachute failed to open, and a capsule filled with particles trapped directly from the sun dropped like a stone from the edge of space and hit the muddy sands of the Utah desert with a thud.
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/ 9 September 2004
Two more men arrested in different South African towns in an international probe into weapons of mass destruction may appear in court on Thursday. This follows the sudden and unexplained withdrawal of charges against another accused in Vanderbijlpark on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2004
The South African government is denying thousands of Zimbabwean refugees their right to political asylum, says a report published on Thursday by Refugees International. ”Genuine refugees are prevented from getting asylum,” said Andrea Lari, a researcher for the organisation.
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Russia fired the first salvo of its response to the attack on the school in Beslan on Wednesday by saying that it reserved the right to make pre-emptive strikes against terrorist training camps outside the Russian Federation’s borders. At the same time the security services put a -million bounty on the heads of the two Chechen leaders it claims are behind the Beslan massacre, Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
Russia warns of terror strikes
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/ 9 September 2004
When examining the Fair Trade movement it is important first to understand the concept of social consciousness. Becoming socially conscious does not require a paradigm shift in lifestyle — joining a commune, hugging trees or lying down in front of bulldozers. What it does require is lateral thinking and that you ask a few earnest questions about the products you buy, and, in this case, the places you go to on holiday.
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/ 9 September 2004
Patrick Bond has written an unashamedly biased, at times coolly angry, account of what he perceives is the right-ward shift of the post-apartheid South African state, particularly under Mbeki, writes Anthony Egan of <i>Talk Left, Walk Right</i>.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday, bucking the weaker trend on world markets. Dealers said that banking and gold stocks were driving the bourse higher. At 11h53, the all share index was up 0,24%. The financial and banks indices were 0,73% and 1,28% firmer respectively. The gold mining index gained 0,64%
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The trial of the 14 foreigners accused of attempting to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea last March has thrust the notoriously repressive regime on to the international stage. However, while the spotlight shines into the rat-infested cell the alleged mercenaries share in the notorious Black Beach prison, the political prisoners arrested two years ago remain mouldering in the shadows.