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/ 23 December 2005
I was woken in the small hours of the morning by the sound of a strangely familiar voice hitherto only heard on the television. The voice went like this: ”On behalf of the government and people of this country, I am here to wish you a Happy New Year.”
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/ 23 December 2005
A decomposed body discovered in a Brussels canal a week ago is that of a Rwandan former minister indicted by a United Nations tribunal on charges of genocide, a family lawyer said on Thursday. The naked body was discovered by a passer-by in the Brussels-Charleroi canal in the heart of the Belgian capital.
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/ 23 December 2005
Chadian President Idriss Deby on Thursday accused his Sudanese counterpart of plotting to destabilise his country, blaming Khartoum for a rebel attack on the frontier town of Adre. ”The attack against the locality of Adre was not the doing of presumed rebels, but was direct aggression by [the] Sudanese defence minister,” Deby said.
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/ 23 December 2005
The leader of Egypt’s main Islamic opposition group said the Holocaust is a ”myth”, and he slammed Western governments for criticising disclaimers of the Jewish genocide. The comments by Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Mahdi Akef echoed remarks made recently by Iran’s hard-line president.
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/ 23 December 2005
Champagne corks popped all over the Catalan town of Vic on Thursday after the world’s biggest lottery draw paid out â,¬510-million (R3,8-billion) to its inhabitants. The deluge of money is expected to transform Vic, a Catalan hill town of 36 000 people 96km inland from Barcelona.
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/ 23 December 2005
United States President George Bush faced a rare challenge from the judiciary on Thursday when two courts questioned the legality of his expansion of presidential powers in the war on terror. In a startling rebuke, a federal appeals court refused to allow the transfer of a terror suspect, Jose Padilla, from military to civilian custody.
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/ 23 December 2005
Her exit had been thunderous and swirling, but as she sat in the wicker chair on the porch and watched the ice melt in her drink, Mrs Claus felt none of the satisfaction that aggrieved righteousness usually brought her. The patronising old bastard was becoming more intransigent with every year.
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/ 23 December 2005
Black Leopards refuted the old adage that leopards never change their spots with a rejuvenated 2-2 Premier Soccer League (PSL) draw against Kaizer Chiefs at a jam-packed Thohoyandou Stadium on Wednesday afternoon in the wake of their recent 5-1 pummelling at the hands of Mamelodi Sundowns.
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/ 23 December 2005
The Bafana Bafana squad announced on Wednesday for the African Nations Cup will play warm-up matches against a Premier Soccer League (PSL) XI in Johannesburg and Durban — but while the game at the coast will be open to the public, Johannesburg soccer fans will be shut out from the match at the Johannesburg Stadium.
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/ 23 December 2005
Supersport United took a leaf from the goal-scoring fortunes of their city rivals Mamelodi Sundowns when they drowned Bush Bucks with an avalanche of goals at Loftus Versfeld on Thursday evening. United were in no festive mood as they recorded a clinical and comprehensive 6-0 victory over the bottom-of-the-log Bucks.