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More than 60 people were killed on Thursday in the southern Russian city of Nalchik in simultaneous attacks on government targets claimed by rebels from nearby breakaway Chechnya, officials said. President Vladimir Putin ordered the city sealed and issued shoot-to-kill orders for anyone using arms to resist police.
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/ 13 October 2005
The Central Bank of Botswana increased the bank rate 25 basis points to 14,50% on Thursday. This came as the Central Statistics Office announced an increase of 10% in year on year (y/y) inflation at the end of September — the highest rate since April 2003 (10,8%). The bank warned of further increases in inflation.
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/ 13 October 2005
The government was to make its first commercial farm expropriation for the purposes of restitution in Lichtenburg on Thursday. North West farmer Hannes Visser would be given 21 days to respond to the notice of expropriation to be served by the Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights in Gauteng and North West, said spokesperson Mvusiwekhaya Sicwetsha.
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/ 13 October 2005
In prose and poetry, Myanmar’s ruling junta has launched scathing attacks on two distinguished human rights advocates, Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who both recently compiled a report critical of the military regime.
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/ 13 October 2005
Growth rates of between five and six percent were achievable for South Africa over the long term, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday. ”It is a bold and ambitious target but achievable,” IMF senior representative for SA and Lesotho, Vivek Arora, said at the release of surveys on its world and regional economic outlooks.
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/ 13 October 2005
In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a group activity. ”When they say The Radio, they don’t mean … a man in a studio,” wrote EB White, author of children’s classic Charlotte’s Web, in the 1940s. ”They refer to a pervading and somewhat godlike presence which has come into their lives and homes. It is a mighty attractive idol.”
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/ 13 October 2005
The JSE remained in the red at midday on Thursday, but platinum mining stocks bucked the trend, reflecting a strong platinum price. The JSE’s softer tone was on the back of weaker world markets and came despite the rand moving above the 6,60 per dollar level.
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/ 13 October 2005
Zimbabwean and South African parliamentary committees have agreed visas for travel between the two countries should be scrapped, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the portfolio committee on home affairs and defence from the two countries met in Harare on Wednesday.
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/ 13 October 2005
More than 60 people were killed on Thursday, including about 50 militants, after gunmen launched attacks on Russian government installations in the southern city of Nalchik, the region’s top official said. Arsen Kanokov said the attacks were carried out by about 150 armed militants.
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/ 13 October 2005
”Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” United States President George Bush told the world after September 11 2001, and he has made it clear ever since that he means it. But in that black and white universe, where do you put Josh Rushing?