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/ 23 November 2005
Warner Music Group has agreed to pay -million to settle an investigation into payoffs for radio airplay of artists, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Tuesday. Warner is the second major United States recording company to reform and settle with Spitzer in a practice the attorney general called industry-wide.
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/ 23 November 2005
South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, rose by 4,4% year-on-year in October after increasing by 4,7% in September, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 November 2005
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, there is nothing left in Rick Undesser’s turkey barns but feathers and dirt. The slaughter began 10 days before Thanksgiving. A team of 24 hauled 350 birds a day from the barns to the butcher shop where they were slaughtered, plucked and packaged in air-tight plastic.
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/ 23 November 2005
Fifty-seven rebels have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern Ituri region during a three-day offensive by government troops backed by United Nations peacekeepers. ”Fighting was very fierce. Losses were heavy. One of our men was killed and seven wounded. As for the enemy, we counted 57 dead and several wounded,” said the army spokesperson in Ituri, Captain Olivier Mputu.
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/ 23 November 2005
North Korea’s demand that it be given light-water nuclear reactors before it would open up to atomic inspections and disarmament got a sharp rebuff as the partners in an energy consortium agreed with United States policy and terminated the reactor-building project.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Moving South Africa strategy warned as far back as 1999 that South Africa’s metropolitan cities needed to be proactive over managing car use "especially for the stubborn segment of the population", says South African Transport Minister Jeff Radebe.
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/ 23 November 2005
With the indifferent recent form of favourites Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs providing them with the impetus to swoop into the forefront of the Premier Soccer League title race, Moroka Swallows are in no mood to falter against Classic at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Spar South African women’s hockey team delivered a far more assured performance in the second Test against Canada at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday night to register a convincing 2-0 win. The result puts the hosts 2-0 up in the four-Test series.
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/ 23 November 2005
The venue for the first Test in the three-Test Spar Netball Challenge series on Wednesday has been changed from the Standard Bank Arena to the Walter Sisulu Hall at the Randburg Recreation Centre. Red tape has thrown arrangements for first Test between South Africa and England into chaos.
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/ 23 November 2005
Venetian gondolas, horses and even a Ferrari will help transport the torch across Italy for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. The Olympic flame begins a 64-day, 11 300km relay through every Italian province on December 8, sailing Venice’s Grand Canal on gondolas and parading in a sports car through the Ferrari factory.