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Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot on Tuesday pledged €5-million to South Africa’s efforts to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo and lauded Pretoria’s peacemaker role in Africa. ”If we can stay the course, our joint efforts can help create the conditions for free and fair elections in the DRC in the near future,” Bot told guests at his country’s new embassy building.
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/ 11 October 2005
Voters in Liberia began queuing from 2am in the country’s first presidential elections since the end of a devastating civil war two years ago. International observers have praised the smooth start to the day’s voting — which marks the culmination of a relatively peaceful two-month campaign.
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The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday pledged another -million in earthquake relief funds as anger grew over the pace of the response to the south Asia disaster. Singh, making his first visit to some of the devastated areas of Indian-controlled Kashmir, admitted that survivors of Saturday’s quake did not have enough tents or medicines.
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New Zealand are very happy with the format of the 2005/2006 cricket series against South Africa, in which the tour is split in two, with a short one-day tour now and a three-Test series in April. ”It’s great for us, because it means we don’t have to adjust to a different form of the game in the middle of the tour,” said New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will reveal the reasons for his implication in corruption after his court battle, he promised more than 1Â 000 supporters outside the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Thanking them for their support, Zuma said he was humbled by their presence at his second appearance on two charges of corruption.
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/ 11 October 2005
The Sudanese government has for the first time agreed to allow Ugandan troops to pursue members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in all parts of southern Sudan, Uganda’s army said on Tuesday. In a deal reached last week, Khartoum lifted restrictions on Ugandan military operations against the LRA in southern Sudan as long as they are coordinated with its army.
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/ 11 October 2005
A Chinese SUV, the Landwind built by Jiangling Motors, on Tuesday received some of the worst ratings to date in crash tests carried out be Germany’s influential ADAC automobile club. The results, reported in the latest issue of the ADAC’s monthly Motorwelt magazine, termed the â,¬15Â 000 (Â 000) vehicle’s crash results as ”catastrophic”.
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/ 11 October 2005
A fleet of United States-led warships cruises northern Gulf waters with the task of protecting Iraq’s oil terminals from terror attacks that could hurt both the Iraqi economy and world oil markets. Task Force 58, set up for the protection of Khor Al-Amaya and Basra oil terminals, is probably one of the less well-known, but nonetheless most important, missions of the coalition forces in Iraq, where oil exports account for 97% of revenues.
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/ 11 October 2005
They walk up to an ATM and press their thumbs on the screen. Out spits the cash. Tokyo? No. New York? No. The mountains and jungles of Colombia. It’s one of the few places in the world where banks are using fingerprint biometrics, which verify people’s identities based on their unique physical characteristics.
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Huddling under bits of plastic, survivors in quake-hit Muzaffarabad faced fresh heartbreak on Tuesday as torrential rain halted aid efforts hours after they got into gear. Helicopters were forced to stop their mercy flights bringing aid to the Pakistani Kashmir capital and evacuating the worst of the injured from Saturday’s earthquake to hospitals in Islamabad.