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/ 20 December 2005
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) on Monday welcomed the resignation of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s pilot, Franz Gabriel, from Denel, saying his exposure to the country’s ”extremely sophisticated” information on weaponry was ”unacceptable”.
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/ 20 December 2005
The director of a Dutch-based independent radio station broadcasting in Zimbabwe was arrested on Monday just hours after the release of three of the station’s journalists. The police detained John Masuku, director of the Voice of the People radio station, at the Harare central police station where he had been summoned.
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/ 20 December 2005
The 2005 formula one season was a watershed. Fernando Alonso became formula one’s youngest champion at 24, ending seven-time winner Michael Schumacher’s string of five straight season titles. The Spaniard won three of the first four races — and four of the first seven — and then protected the lead. The Renault driver wound up with seven wins, the same as McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen.
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/ 20 December 2005
Construction group Aveng will be consulting its legal representatives and respond later on Tuesday to platinum miner Aquarius Platinum’s move to sue the group for R1-billion in damages, Aveng CEO Carl Grim said on Tuesday morning. Aveng will issue a statement on the JSE’s Stock Exchange News Service, Grim added.
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/ 20 December 2005
South Africa’s Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company on Tuesday announced that it has signed a R17,5-million contract with United States group Westinghouse. The contract is for the basic design of automation safety sub-systems for the PBMR’s demonstration power plant at Koeberg in the Western Cape.
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/ 20 December 2005
A year ago, Fallujah was a devastated city, its population scattered, its buildings reduced to rubble after United States forces overran it in the most intense battle of the Iraq war. Last week, the people turned out in droves to vote in Iraq’s crucial parliamentary election — which the US hopes will undermine the insurgency and lead to a withdrawal of American troops.
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/ 20 December 2005
Pygmies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hope their country’s future Constitution will lead to improved living standards and security in their region. ”Everyone in our community voted” in a constitutional referendum held on Sunday and Monday, said Seseti Wiongwa, a Bambuti pygmy.
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/ 20 December 2005
North Korea announced on Tuesday it intended to build an unspecified number of light-water reactors, saying the United States had reduced a 1994 deal on mothballing nuclear power plants to a ”dead document.” Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said that the Stalinist regime would also resume the construction of two graphite moderated reactors frozen under the 1994 accord.
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/ 20 December 2005
Former Swedish international referee Anders Frisk received the Fifa president’s award from Sepp Blatter here on Monday in what the soccer supremo termed was a message of support for referees. Frisk retired from the game after receiving several death threats following the Champions League quarterfinal first leg match between Barcelona and Chelsea last season.
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/ 20 December 2005
Seven more Indian MPs have been caught on television asking for cash, hot on the heels of a similar scandal involving parliamentarians earlier this month, Star News TV said on Tuesday. Star News aired pictures of the sting operation which showed MPs from different parties, including the ruling Congress, apparently asking for cash ranging from five to 45% of the project value to approve spending on public works programmes.