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/ 21 December 2005
Western Cape fruit farmers are over the worst of their diesel crisis, Agri WesCape chief executive Carl Opperman said on Wednesday. ”At the moment, there is diesel trickling in to the point where we can keep the [industry] going,” he said. ”The worst is over if the flow of diesel continues to increase.”
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/ 21 December 2005
New Yorkers faced another bone-chilling commute on Wednesday without their cherished subways and buses as a transit strike entered its second day, leaving both patience and shoe leather wearing thin. With talks still stalled, a judge imposed a huge fine on Tuesday against the Transport Workers’ Union.
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/ 21 December 2005
loveLife, South Africa’s biggest national HIV-prevention programme for youth, suffered a major setback this week when one of its biggest funders pulled the plug. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria accounted for 30% of loveLife’s annual budget.
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/ 21 December 2005
The death toll from floods that have devastated central Vietnam over the past week climbed to 61 as a remote mountain province counted its dead, officials said on Wednesday. In another province close to the coast, three major landslides have again cut off Highway 1, the main north-south artery.
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/ 21 December 2005
The Ethio-Eritrea Claims Commission has found Eritrea liable to compensate Ethiopia for damages incurred during attacks and occupation of Ethiopian territory in border regions during the conflict, the ministry of foreign affairs disclosed on Wednesday. The commission found Eritrea responsible for the two-and-a-half-year border conflict.
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/ 21 December 2005
A Zimbabwean Cabinet minister has condemned as ”sub-standard” a model of a home built by the United Nations for victims of a government clean-up blitz that left hundreds of thousands homeless. President Robert Mugabe has said through his spokesperson that ”tents just don’t augur well with our culture”.
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/ 21 December 2005
Beatrice Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean lawyer and human rights activist, fights for the right to press freedom in a country facing an economic meltdown.
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/ 21 December 2005
Iraqi Justice Minister Abdel Hussein Shandal on Wednesday slammed judges running the trial of Saddam Hussein as being unqualified despite their foreign training. His remarks came as the trial of the former dictator and seven co-defendants was resuming in Baghdad.
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/ 21 December 2005
Authorities in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk cut off water supplies to 10 000 inhabitants on Wednesday as a toxic slick from China floated downriver toward the city. The spill from a Chinese chemical-factory explosion last month was about 30km up the Amur River from city limits.
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/ 21 December 2005
The majority of economists expect no change in monetary policy in South Africa in 2006, but there are economists who are forecasting cuts, and those who are looking for increases. A no-change scenario is what the majority of economists forecast for 2004 and 2005.