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/ 27 November 2005
More than two dozen gay Arab men — arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding — could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said on Saturday. The interior ministry said police raided a hotel chalet earlier this month and arrested 22 men from the Emirates.
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/ 27 November 2005
An early winter cold spell brought heavy snowfall to parts of Europe over the weekend, paralysing public transport and roadways, toppling trees and cutting electricity to tens of thousands of households. Several people died in car crashes caused by the freezing weather conditions.
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/ 27 November 2005
There is no bigger name in gangsta rap than 50 Cent, the former crack dealer who survived nine bullets to become one of the bestselling names in American music. Now one of the most notorious mysteries in the music industry has apparently been solved after the man who wanted the singer dead has been named during a New York court case.
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/ 27 November 2005
George Clooney was adamant about one thing last week: he was not attacking the president in his gripping new film about the Middle East; he was slamming the entire geopolitical system. The debonair Clooney has clearly taken on an unlikely role: the new king of liberal Hollywood.
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/ 27 November 2005
Norway will call in extra air-traffic controllers for the Christmas rush as hundreds of thousands of tourists, primarily from Britain, take to the skies to visit Santa in Finland’s far north, Norwegian officials said on Thursday. Each year during the holiday season, dozens of special flights link the European continent to the Arctic village of Rovaniemi.
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/ 27 November 2005
Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country’s first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam’s regime. ”People are doing the same as [in] Saddam’s time and worse,” Ayad Allawi told The Observer.
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/ 27 November 2005
Postal services around the world are gearing up for their most frantic period of the year — ensuring wishful letters from millions of children get through to the jolly fat man running the North Pole toy factory. But in reindeer-dotted Sweden, the post office is ready to go just a little bit further in the spirit of Christmas.
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/ 27 November 2005
Golfer Ernie Els’s former manager Nic Frangos called on the police on Saturday to speed up their probe into businessman David Rosen, who fell to his death at Sandton’s Michelangelo hotel earlier this month. He denied a Saturday newspaper report that police had questioned him in connection with the incident.
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/ 27 November 2005
Zhang Xuping and his family dashed out of their home as soon as they felt the ground shaking. Minutes later, their neighbour was killed and buildings near them collapsed as a strong earthquake rolled through their village in central China. The quake killed 15 people and injured more than 450 others in two provinces.
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/ 27 November 2005
Three security guards were injured in a shoot-out when two vehicles failed to push an armoured car off a road about 20km from Pilanesberg during an attempted cash-in-transit heist on Saturday morning, North West police said. Armed robbers also rammed into an armoured vehicle at Akasia, near Pretoria, on Saturday morning.