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/ 5 December 2005
The JSE was weaker just before midday on Monday, dragged down by a strong rand, weaker world markets and gold coming off its best levels. A technical problem with the futures market made for very light volumes on the bourse however. By 11.55am, the all share index lost 0,36%.
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/ 5 December 2005
Five people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack at a shopping mall close to the city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police and medical sources said. The blast, responsibility for which was claimed by Islamic Jihad, went off at around 11.30am at the entrance to the Hasharon shopping centre in the upmarket resort town of Netanya.
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/ 5 December 2005
The share price of Cape Town-based black economic empowerment group Sekunjalo Investments hit 80 cents in early trade on Monday, gaining eight cents and approaching a four-and-a-half year high of 82 cents. This follows the group’s announcement late on Thursday of a 303% rise in headline earnings per share to 4,76 cents for the year ended on August 31.
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/ 5 December 2005
Australian opener Justin Langer has issued a warning to South Africa ahead of the Test series against the Proteas later this month, responding to Graeme Smith’s comments that there were ”question marks” over the Australian team, particularly in its middle order.
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/ 5 December 2005
Iran will not submit to Western demands to limit its disputed nuclear fuel drive and is prepared to maintain a freeze on sensitive activities only for a few more months, said national security official Ali Larijani. The Islamic republic’s top nuclear negotiator also asserted that Iran was powerful enough to dissuade its critics from considering military action.
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/ 5 December 2005
The Scorpions have stripped four prominent Johannesburg businessmen of their assets pending charges of theft and money laundering, reported The Star newspaper on Monday. The paper said the four had allegedly syphoned R15-million from Absa Bank in an internet scam.
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/ 5 December 2005
African mediators on Sunday appointed central banker Charles Konan Banny as transitional prime minister to lead the war-ravaged Côte d’Ivoire into elections next year. Banny (63) will be given broad powers specified by the United Nations Security Council, including financial and human resources, control over security and defence forces and oversight of the electoral process.
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/ 5 December 2005
At least 14 people were killed and several more injured when the roof of a public swimming pool collapsed in the Urals region of Russia, officials said early on Monday. Of the 14 victims, 10 were children between nine and 12-years-old, said local emergency ministry official Anatoly Shinakov. Four women were also killed in the accident.
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/ 5 December 2005
South Africa sounded an early warning to Australia after piling on the pressure in the first session of a three-day tour match against a Western Australian state team led by Test opener Justin Langer here on Monday. At lunch in the match at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground, the home team were struggling at 73-3 after being sent into bat in overcast conditions.
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/ 5 December 2005
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s meeting with Germany’s new Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday is likely to be a tricky affair. What should have been a chance to repair the damaging rift between the countries over Iraq is fast being eclipsed by something else — a new transatlantic row between the US and the European Union over the CIA.