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/ 18 October 2005
The body of former Ugandan president Milton Obote arrived home on Tuesday for a state funeral to tears and jeers over the late leader’s legacy, which left the nation deeply divided. Torn between remembering Obote as a national hero or despot, Ugandans grieved and rejoiced as the white government-chartered twin-propeller cargo carrying his body landed at Entebbe at 12.45pm.
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/ 18 October 2005
This year’s seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica was the third largest on record, but forecasters are uncertain how it will behave in the future, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Tuesday. The hole peaked last month at almost 27-million square kilometres, and then began shrinking as usual, the WMO said in a statement.
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/ 18 October 2005
An infant gorilla in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil, surprising and intriguing scientists who say they have much to learn about what gorillas can do — and about what that says about evolution.
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/ 18 October 2005
Jurors in United States death penalty cases are often excluded because of race and gender, are not shown critical evidence and tend to be conviction prone, the Death Penalty Information Centre said on Tuesday in a report. ”While most Americans never serve on a capital jury,” the report said, ”everyone is affected by a system that fails to respect those who do serve and that falls woefully short of justice.”
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/ 18 October 2005
United States Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday that the world would have to learn to live with high oil prices and their negative impact on economic growth ”for some time to come”. He said the recent shutdown of US oil production and refinery facilities battered by hurricanes was ”an accident waiting to happen”.
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/ 18 October 2005
A private radio station shut down for broadcasting an interview with a separatist was back on the air on Tuesday, but the case was referred to the state prosecutor. Radio Sud FM resumed its normal programmes a day after police arrested journalists and other members of staff following an interview carried early on Monday with Salif Sadio, who calls for the independence of southern Casamance province.
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/ 18 October 2005
An Australian scientific team set off for Antarctica on Tuesday to search for definitive proof in the polar ice cap that human activity is responsible for rising levels of greenhouse gases. The team from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation will drill 250m below the surface to obtain cylinders of ice containing trapped bubbles of methane dating back to 1750.
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/ 18 October 2005
The strongest collection of qualifiers for an African Nations Cup will be split into four groups at the draw for the 2006 tournament in Cairo on Thursday. Hosts Egypt and holders Tunisia are automatic first seeds with Cameroon and Nigeria completing the top tier ahead of the evening event at the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital.
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/ 18 October 2005
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said on Tuesday that it was now ready to allow other companies or governments to produce Tamiflu, a drug considered a first line of defence against a potential flu pandemic. It also announced that it would go ahead with a new facility to produce the drug in the United States.
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/ 18 October 2005
Keep politics and politicians out of the civil service and corruption will stop, says United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa. ”The corruption in local government is there because councillors are emulating their leaders at national level,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.