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/ 25 October 2007
The JSE remained firm at midday on Thursday as activity in the banking sector continued to dominate the market. At noon, the all-share index was up 0,97%, led by a 3,34% climb in the platinum mining index. The gold mining index gained 1,34% and resources rose 0,69%.
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/ 25 October 2007
An advertising campaign to counter discrimination against gays has stirred up passions in Italy, using a poster that shows a newborn with the word ”homosexual” written on his wristband. ”Sexual orientation is not a choice,” reads the slogan on the poster that was going up all across the central-northern Tuscany region.
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/ 25 October 2007
Former British European Cup winners Liverpool and Celtic suffered another blow after both lost in the latest round of Champions League matches on Wednesday. Liverpool have just a point after three matches — having gone down 2-1 to Besiktas in Istanbul — while Celtic have three points following a 1-0 reverse away to Benfica.
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/ 25 October 2007
The pathologist who performed a controversial autopsy on former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer said on Wednesday that the Englishman was poisoned and then strangled. Dr Ere Shesiah told an inquest that Woolmer ”died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cypermethrinide poisoning”.
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/ 25 October 2007
A storm killed 18 Mexican oil workers fleeing a battered offshore rig, and navy rescue teams were searching on Wednesday for seven people missing in the turbulent seas. State-owned oil monopoly Pemex said 61 people had been rescued after huge waves knocked the Usumacinta drilling platform into an adjacent rig.
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/ 25 October 2007
Israeli officials prepared a plan on Wednesday to cut power supplies to the Gaza Strip amid violence that killed two Palestinian boys after a rocket salvo damaged an apartment building in the Jewish state. The United Nations has told Israel it must not inflict collective punishment by cutting vital supplies and services.
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/ 25 October 2007
Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkhesi Stofile has said South Africans would be given an opportunity to take part in a national debate regarding the Springbok emblem. He said the debate would not only focus on the Springbok emblem, but would include all the other sports emblems in the country.
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/ 25 October 2007
Gold Fields reported on Thursday an 18,6% fall in first-quarter adjusted earnings per share compared with the prevous quarter, blaming higher costs and falling output overseas. Gold Fields, the world’s fourth biggest gold producer, said adjusted EPS declined to 61 cents.
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/ 25 October 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe cannot be excluded from the European Union-Africa summit just because he is a dictator, or others must be barred too, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said on Wednesday. ”We don’t … have the right to say to our African friends ‘you can invite anyone you like except him’,” he said.
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/ 25 October 2007
Human rights group Amnesty International accused state security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo of systematic torture and killings in a report published on Thursday. Amnesty blamed two government security forces — the special services police and the republican guard — for attacks on opponents of President Joseph Kabila.