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/ 1 December 2005
George Bush on Wednesday staked his presidency on winning a ”complete victory” in Iraq, rejecting a timetable for withdrawal and setting a high bar for military success. The president claimed substantial progress in training Iraqi forces, offering the prospect of US redeployment outside Iraq’s lethal cities and eventual force reductions.
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/ 1 December 2005
Ever since eBay announced in September it would splash out -billion on Skype, things have been surprisingly quiet for internet telephony’s most visible pioneer. However, today Skype launches a new version of its software. Though there have been changes, the program — which uses your computer to reroute telephone calls across the net — remains fundamentally the same.
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/ 1 December 2005
Royal Bafokeng Finance will take a 26% stake in the MB Technologies Group to form one of the biggest black-empowered and privately-owned information technology groups in South Africa. Bafokeng King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi said the group was attracted to MB Technologies because of its positioning in the local IT market.
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/ 1 December 2005
United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan announced on Thursday that the oil-rich Gulf state is to hold its first elections, in a move toward reforms. ”We have decided to boost the role of the consultative council by electing half of its members through councils in each emirate,” said Sheikh Khalifa.
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/ 1 December 2005
British insurance group Prudential unveiled on Thursday a friendly bid to purchase the minority 21,7% stake of online banking arm Egg which it does not already own. "The boards of Prudential and Egg are pleased to announce the terms of a recommended offer," the two groups said in a joint statement.
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/ 1 December 2005
Football’s world governing body Fifa will wait until March next year before deciding whether to use an electronically chipped ball at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. Fifa spokesperson Markus Siegler said there would be a meeting in March to discuss the tests of the chipped ball and decide whether it is ready for the 2006 finals, running from June 9 until July 9.
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/ 1 December 2005
A teenage girl in KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested for stealing her friend’s two-month-old son in Ubombo near Umfolozi, police said on Thursday. Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said the 18-year-old girl snatched the baby while visiting his mother, Simo Phethelaphi Ngobe (22).
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/ 1 December 2005
Denis Lindsay, the famous South African cricketer of the 1960s, died in Johannesburg on Wednesday night at the age of 66 as the result of a short illness. Ali Bacher, who played with Lindsay in various Test teams of that era and captained him during the victorious 1969-70 series over Australia, said on Thursday: ”Denis was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder earlier this year and it spread.”
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Events marking World Aids Day were cancelled by royal decree on Thursday in Africa’s last absolute monarchy because they clashed with a traditional ceremony scheduled for the same day. The announcement shocked activists in a country where more than 38% of the one-million population are infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
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/ 1 December 2005
Earthquake survivors in Pakistan said on Thursday they fear for their future as a bitter winter intensifies and their life in makeshift tent camps becomes more miserable with each passing day. Almost eight weeks after the devastating October 8 disaster, which killed more than 73 000 people, the fate of the 3,5-million others who were left homeless is far from secure.