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/ 19 December 2005
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president-elect, wears sneakers but never a jacket and tie. And that is not the only aspect about the fiery left-winger that is going to shock the world. Bolivia’s first native Indian president, who is simply known as ”Evo” across the country, wants to rein-in United States influence and end restrictions on the coca crop that he made his life from before entering politics.
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/ 19 December 2005
As United States President George Bush appealed on Sunday for patience with his Iraq policies, analysts agreed the coming months were crucial to his hopes of getting out of an increasingly unpopular war. In a prime-time television speech, Bush went to extraordinary lengths to win backing for his efforts to quell an insurgency still raging 33 months after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
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/ 19 December 2005
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has suspended five senior members of his party, deepening serious splits in the party. Nelson Chamisa, the spokesperson for Tsvangirai’s faction of the Movement for Democratic Change said a disciplinary committee had decided to suspend five senior party officials, including Secretary General Welshman Ncube and the party’s President, Gibson Sibanda.
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/ 19 December 2005
A deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong was a distinctly modest achievement which kept the Doha round of trade talks ”on life support”, although this was better than nothing, British newspapers said on Monday. ”World trade accords are like sausage. It’s sensible not to look too closely at how they are made,” The Times noted in its editorial.
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/ 19 December 2005
British police said on Sunday they had found a flatbed truck and crane that were apparently used in the theft of a £3-million (,2-million) Henry Moore sculpture from the artist’s estate north of London. The truck and crane, discovered in the area on Saturday night, were filmed by a security video as they took the two-tonne Reclining Figure bronze sculpture from the Henry Moore Foundation estate.
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/ 19 December 2005
Veteran Australian Test opener Justin Langer may miss the remainder of the Test series against South Africa after straining his hamstring during the opening match at the Waca ground. Australian physiotherapist Errol Alcott said on Monday that Langer had a severe strain in his left hamstring and would miss the second Test starting in Melbourne on December 26.
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/ 19 December 2005
Middle-order batsman Brad Hodge’s maiden Test century lifted Australia to an overall lead of 363 runs at lunch on the fourth day of the first cricket Test against South Africa on Monday. Australia is 401 for six with Hodge unbeaten on 139 and Adam Gilchrist on 11 after Mike Hussey (58) and Andrew Symonds (25) were out in the opening session.
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/ 19 December 2005
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has for the first time recounted the moment of his capture two years ago in an ”interview” conducted via his lawyer, British newspaper The Sun said on Monday. When captured, the former Iraqi leader had been about to flee the scene by motorbike, the paper said.
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/ 19 December 2005
Steven Spielberg has hired the public relations consultant who is spearheading Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s re-election campaign to promote his film Munich, about the hunt for the Palestinians responsible for the hostage crisis that led to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
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/ 19 December 2005
Tanzania’s Revolutionary Party cemented its four-decade grip on power on Sunday when presidential election results confirmed victory for its candidate, Foreign Minister Jakaya Kikwete. Kikwete took 80% of the vote in Wednesday’s polls, demolishing nine challengers in the country’s third elections since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1992.