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Australians were on Monday urged to mark a minute’s silence if a convicted drug-trafficker is hanged in Singapore this week, amid growing resignation that the city state will go ahead with the execution. Church leaders and politicians from across the political divide have backed the call for a minute’s silence for Nguyen Tuong Van, found carrying 400g of heroin in Singapore en route to Australia in 2002.
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/ 28 November 2005
Myanmar’s military junta has extended pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest by six months, a Home Ministry official said on Monday. ”She was officially informed on the evening of Sunday, November 27,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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/ 28 November 2005
Two Britons were killed and three injured on Monday when gunmen attacked a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims south of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said, the day after four humanitarian workers were reported kidnapped. Also on Monday, a mortar shell fell in central Baghdad’s Green Zone and two others fell nearby.
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/ 28 November 2005
France coach Bernard Laporte says his team, which has recently beaten Australia and South Africa, must still improve to stand a chance of winning the 2007 World Cup. France beat South Africa 26-20 on Saturday at Stade de France to give Laporte a fourth straight win following comfortable successes against Tonga and Canada and a 26-16 win over the Wallabies.
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/ 28 November 2005
Spot platinum on Monday touched $1 000 an ounce for the first time since March 1980 on renewed fund-buying of the metal. A break through the $1 000/oz level for platinum should open up a move to $1 040/oz followed by $1 090/oz, technical analysts for JP Morgan wrote.
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/ 28 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s embattled leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has suspended its own leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, from his position, according to internal party correspondence. MDC vice-president Gibson Sibanda said the suspension is for misconduct charges.
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/ 28 November 2005
The Springboks arrived back in South Africa on Monday morning after a weekend that promised much but delivered little — except, perhaps, for a large dose of reality for the men in green and gold. The depleted squad slipped into the country under the radar before 7am on Monday.
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/ 28 November 2005
North West police exhumed a grave on Monday morning believed to be that of missing Constable Francis Rasuge and have confirmed that it is not hers. The man who claimed it was Rasuge’s grave will now face fierce interrogation, Senior Superintendent Pieter du Plessis said on Monday.
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Twenty-five million people have died from HIV/Aids in 24 years, more than three million of whom died this year alone, and at least 40-million people today have HIV, a rise of about five million over the past 12 months. With just a month left to go, the World Health Organisation’s goal of providing anti-retroviral drugs for three million poor people by the end of 2005 is poised to fall dismally short of the mark.
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/ 28 November 2005
”If you are going to go about in a spanking new Ferrari F430, you had better not be shy. There can be no more efficient way of getting noticed on a public highway, short of being Posh and Becks or dressing up as a hand of bananas. Heads turn, fingers point. At least, I think they were pointing,” writes Giles Smith.