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/ 27 December 2005
The United States embassy in London was forced to issue a correction on Monday to an interview given by the ambassador, Robert Tuttle, in which he claimed the US would not fly suspected terrorists to Syria, which has one of the worst torture records in the Middle East. A statement acknowledged media reports of a suspect taken from the US to Syria.
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/ 27 December 2005
Mike Hussey and Glenn McGrath frustrated South Africa in a 107-run rearguard stand on Tuesday before Brett Lee dismissed Graeme Smith to give Australia an edge in the second cricket Test. Hussey punished South Africa for another dropped catch before he was bowled by Makhaya Ntini 11 minutes after lunch.
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/ 27 December 2005
Violence increased across Iraq after a lull following the December 15 parliamentary elections, with at least two dozen people killed in shootings and bombings mostly targeting the Shi’ite-dominated security services. Officials blamed the surge in violence on insurgent efforts to deepen the political turmoil surrounding the contested vote.
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/ 27 December 2005
A thousand cars an hour were heading inland through the Mooi River toll plaza on the N2 in KwaZulu-Natal by early Monday afternoon, the province’s road-traffic inspectorate said. Spokesperson Rajen Chinaboo said it appeared poor weather had ”dampened some spirits” and at least some holidaymakers were returning home early.
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/ 27 December 2005
A child died in a fire that destroyed about 60 shacks in an informal settlement off Lansdowne Road in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Monday, city fire-control spokesperson Gregory Carolissen said. A fire in the same area early on Monday morning razed about 200 shacks.
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/ 27 December 2005
For Judie Roy, the only woman among 34 candidates for president of Haiti in elections to be held in January, the face of poverty in one of the world’s poorest countries is female. "All that is misery, all that is poverty is female in Haiti. That must be changed," says the 41-year-old mother of six.
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/ 27 December 2005
"’It would be a good idea,’ Mahatma Gandhi famously remarked when asked what he thought of European civilisation. It is a useful perspective for Europeans, many of whom still tend to think of themselves as God’s gift to the world." Drew Forrest argues that to understand Europe’s unique taste for organised violence, we must delve into pre-history.
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/ 27 December 2005
As Bosnia tries to recover from its devastating 1992-1995 war, many fear corruption has crippled society to such an extent that it has become a way of life for locals. ”It seems that nothing can be done in this country without corruption and bribery,” Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic said recently.
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/ 27 December 2005
”Many years ago, in a second-hand bookshop, I found a children’s first learner textbook in Yiddish. It was published in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1930 and with its owner must have escaped destruction by emigrating south. When I picked up the book with its frayed yellowing pages, I noticed immediately that I could read Yiddish in its original Hebrew script,” writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 27 December 2005
The photographic coverage of the July 7 London bombings was an unexpected aftershock for media professionals. The realisation that almost every image seen on television news and front pages was captured by amateurs sent shivers down the collective media spine. Digital cameras are turning the world of photography on its head.