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Canada will go to the polls for a snap general election after opposition parties on Monday used a no-confidence vote to oust Prime Minister Paul Martin’s scandal-hit government. The country’s three opposition parties, which control a majority of seats in Parliament, called for the vote last week.
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/ 29 November 2005
Shi’ite politicians expressed anger on Monday as the trial of Saddam Hussein was adjourned for another week, after three hours of procedural wrangling and testimony from the first prosecution witness. The Chief Judge, Rizgar Amin, was accused of being ”unduly indulgent” of mass murderers.
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Aids activists said on Monday that mismanagement, bureaucracy and inadequate funding have kept the world from meeting the goal of providing treatment to three million people infected by HIV/Aids by the end of the year. The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition said the goal fell short by at least a million people.
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/ 29 November 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party must choose whether to serve in an African National Congress-led KwaZulu-Natal provincial government or pull out, said ANC chief whip in the province Mtholephi Mthikhulu on Monday. Tensions flared over a motion from the ANC’s Cyril Xaba to oust the IFP’s caucus leader, Lionel Mtshali.
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/ 29 November 2005
The National Prosecuting Authority on Monday exhumed the remains of two Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres who were ambushed and killed by the apartheid security police on May 4 1983. The NPA said in a statement that the two men were buried at the Tlhabane cemetery on May 10 1983 as unidentified paupers.
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/ 29 November 2005
Skipper Rahul Dravid’s composed half-century anchored India to a series-levelling victory by five wickets on Monday in the fifth and final limited-overs international against South Africa. Dravid’s unbeaten 78 steered India to 224 for five in 47,3 overs after South Africa had put on a challenging 221 for six from 50.
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/ 29 November 2005
A Swiss ”sex tourist” who was caught a month ago allegedly sodomising a South African boy has cut a deal with the state to pay a fine, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. Child-rights organisations have reacted with outrage at what they described as slap on wrist for Peter Zimmerman.
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/ 29 November 2005
The taxi recapitalisation programme of the government exemplifies the attempt, and inevitable failure, of the project to modernise this sector. Under the combined class hegemony of transnational capital, the vehicle manufacturers winning the tender would have manufactured, supplied and maintained a fleet of 90Â 000 new vehicles.
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/ 29 November 2005
Ouraye Sall holds up a razor blade and begins to describe, with the detachment of a surgeon, how she once used the tools of her former trade. She breaks the razor clean in half, then snips off the sharp corners. There’s no irony in her voice when she describes the great care she went to to avoid inflicting too much pain with the lethal instrument.
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/ 29 November 2005
South Africa’s Ministry of Justice recently fended off Israeli accusations that Pretoria was not providing full assistance in a bribery investigation against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. If South Africa and Austria did not cooperate with the investigation, Israeli justice officials were quoted as saying in media reports there, the case would be closed.