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/ 25 December 2005
Christmas is bittersweet this year for thousands of New Orleans residents still homeless four months after their city was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. For three generations of women fending off the cold outside their uninhabitable brick home, the past seems brighter than the future.
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/ 25 December 2005
Shell said on Saturday it has resumed limited operations in southern Nigeria after the explosion of a pipeline but warned it is still not in a position to honour its commitments to clients. ”One of our fields has partially reopened in Kolo Creek, and there is limited loading at Bonny,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 25 December 2005
Heavy storms and flooding displaced hundreds of villagers this week in two drought-stricken southern Malawi districts, officials said on Saturday. Two tributaries of the Shire River burst their banks in Nsanje, flooding five villages, District Commissioner Tobby Solomoni said.
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/ 25 December 2005
Nigerian Aids workers on Saturday welcomed a government announcement of free treatment for people suffering from the disease but questioned whether the government could fulfil its promises. The government will distribute free anti-retroviral drugs to up to 500 000 HIV/Aids patients from January next year.
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/ 25 December 2005
South African cellphone providers are looking back on a bright year. MTN and Vodacom, the country’s largest two mobile operators, have acquired or are finalising offers estimated at more than -million in Africa this year, placing them at the top of the market.
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/ 25 December 2005
Sir Alex Ferguson has insisted he is not fretting about the performance of Premiership leaders and reigning champions Chelsea as the season enters the busy Christmas and New Year period. Chelsea lead Ferguson’s second-placed Manchester United by nine points heading into Monday’s programme.
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/ 25 December 2005
Real Madrid great Alfredo di Stefano is in hospital after suffering a heart attack, the Spanish first division club said on Saturday. Di Stefano suffered the heart attack in the early hours of Saturday morning before being moved to a hospital at Sagunto near Valencia.
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/ 25 December 2005
South African all-rounder Justin Kemp’s shoulder injury has ruled him out of the second cricket Test against Australia beginning on Monday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The world’s top-ranked batsman, Jacques Kallis, will play for South Africa after missing the drawn first Test in Perth last week with an elbow injury.
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/ 25 December 2005
The governing Shi’ite coalition has called on Iraqis to accept results showing the religious bloc leading in parliamentary elections and moved ahead with efforts to form a ”national unity” government. Meanwhile, militants released a video of a Jordanian hostage and gave that country three days to cut ties with the Baghdad government.
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/ 25 December 2005
For half a century, the military agency dedicated to detecting threats against the United States and Canada has reported Santa’s sleigh ride to curious youngsters around the world. With help from several civilian companies, the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) reports Santa’s progress on a website.