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/ 18 October 2005
The first sign that something had gone wrong for Michelle Wie was when she was nowhere to be found more than a half-hour after finishing fourth in her professional debut. An official with the United States LPGA Tour at the Samsung World Championship would only say she was in a meeting.
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/ 18 October 2005
West Indies coach Bennett King expressed surprising confidence on Monday ahead of his squad’s tour of Australia, but said beating the world’s number-one cricket team on its home turf won’t be easy. ”The Australians are very good and we are going into their den. We just have to go there and tame them,” King said.
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/ 18 October 2005
Indian military analysts are divided over whether Google’s satellite image service, which the president has warned could help terrorists find targets, poses a serious threat to national security. Indian President Abdul Kalam has raised the alarm over the United States-based search engine’s website Earth.google.com.
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/ 18 October 2005
Thousands of injured people languished without shelter and medical care on Tuesday in villages across the earthquake-stricken region of Kashmir and authorities warned that exposure and infections could drive the death toll up from 54 000 as the harsh Himalayan winter looms.
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/ 18 October 2005
Shooting broke out on Tuesday morning in three districts of the southern Russian city of Nalchik, as police and security forces said they were launching special operations to detain suspected militants. Alleged Islamic extremists conducted a coordinated series of attacks on police and other government buildings in the city last Thursday.
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/ 18 October 2005
Sixty-five government officials in the Western Cape will appear in court this week on charges relating to defrauding the social grant system. The Department of Social Development said it ”considers prosecuting these officials as a statement of determination to ensuring that only the legitimate and needy beneficiaries receive grants.”
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/ 18 October 2005
Greece on Monday confirmed its first case of bird flu, as the disease that has plagued South-East Asia continued its rapid spread westward. It is the first country in the European Union to report apparent infection, although cases are being tackled in Turkey and Romania.
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/ 18 October 2005
American air strikes have killed more than 70 people in western Iraq, including dozens of women and children, witnesses said on Monday. The United States military confirmed that warplanes and helicopters had fired missiles and killed more than 70 people, but said the dead were insurgents engaged in operations.
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/ 18 October 2005
World oil prices shot higher on Monday as Tropical Storm Wilma raised fresh concern over hurricane-battered production in the United States Gulf of Mexico. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, jumped $1,73 to close at $64,36 per barrel.
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/ 18 October 2005
A meeting between the foreign ministers of China and Japan was abruptly cancelled on Monday after the Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, paid tribute to Japan’s war dead at a nationalist Shinto shrine, drawing an angry response from China and South Korea.