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/ 16 December 2005
Iraqis of all ethnic groups turned out in large numbers on Thursday to elect a four-year Parliament with the encouragement of local insurgents in at least one big Sunni city. Early estimates suggested more than 70% of the 15-million voters turned out, with participation strong in Sunni areas that have previously shunned the nascent democratic process.
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/ 16 December 2005
South African Airways will divert one of its two daily London to Johannesburg flights to Milan for refuelling as a result of the fuel shortage at London’s Heathrow airport. The fuel shortage follows the explosion and subsequent fire at a fuel depot north of London on Sunday.
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/ 15 December 2005
South Africa should have prosecuted apartheid-era perpetrators of atrocities who refused to repent, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday as the country prepared to mark a decade since the creation of its truth commission. South Africans on Friday will mark a decade since the establishment of the commission.
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/ 15 December 2005
A South African Lotto winner has until noon on Sunday to claim a prize of R10 066 972, else the ticket will expire. Uthingo spokesperson Shenanda Janse van Rensburg said the Quickpick ticket was bought in Gauteng for the draw that took place on Saturday December 18 last year.
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/ 15 December 2005
At least 10 people died when a hospital in north-east China’s Jilin province caught fire on Thursday, forcing desperate people to jump from the building to escape the flames, state media and officials reported. The fire started at the City Centre hospital, Liaoyuan city’s largest, at about 4.30pm local time.
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/ 15 December 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Director Jim Jarmusch’s new film, Broken Flowers is his most enjoyable and accessible work for some time, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 15 December 2005
Iraqi polls closed on Thursday following a landmark poll to choose a government many hope will restore stability to a nation wracked by violence and sectarian feuding since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite a massive security lockdown, three men died in attacks north of Baghdad.
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/ 15 December 2005
About 200 people who flew to Johannesburg International airport from Lagos, Nigeria, entered South Africa on Thursday morning without having their passports checked. A Department of Home Affairs spokesperson said there were ”very few immigration officers around at that time to assist the passengers”.
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/ 15 December 2005
Local and international scientists have been invited to another round table with Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk to discuss the proposed culling of elephants in the Kruger National Park. A report from the South African National Parks board in July this year proposed the culling of the elephants.
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/ 15 December 2005
Mike van Graan presents the <i>Dummies Guide to Being or Becoming an African for the Four Main Population Groups — As Defined Then and Now</i>.