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/ 19 November 2005
Bob Woodward, the journalist usually treated in the United States with a reverence reserved for elder statesmen, found himself under siege inside his own newspaper on Friday over his role in the CIA leak inquiry. Woodward, who was able to keep secret the identity of his most famous source — Deep Throat — for more than 30 years, was forced to give evidence to the special prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
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/ 19 November 2005
International suspicion of Iran’s nuclear programme heightened on Friday when it was revealed that Tehran had obtained a blueprint showing how to build the core of a nuclear warhead. Diplomats said the blueprint for casting uranium was required in making the core of a nuclear warhead, although that alone was not enough for the manufacture of a weapon.
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/ 19 November 2005
The world’s biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380 superjumbo, made its maiden flight to the Middle East early on Saturday in Dubai, a day before the opening of a major aviation show in the emirate. A white A380, bearing a belly logo of the national carrier Emirates and the flag of the United Arab Emirates on its tail, was seen flying over coastal landmarks.
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/ 18 November 2005
At least 73 worshippers were killed and 85 wounded on Friday in suicide attacks on two Shi’ite mosques in an eastern town near the border with Iran, the latest deadly strike by rebels on Iraq’s majority religious group. The attack came just hours after suicide bombers killed six people outside a Baghdad hotel.
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/ 18 November 2005
Staff Sergeant Thomas McKay, who fired and maintained the world-famous One O’clock Gun on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle for nearly 26 years, has died from cancer, the British Army said on Thursday. He was 60 years old. McKay, affectionately known as ”Tam the Gun”, was a popular figure in the Scottish capital.
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/ 18 November 2005
South Africa’s Directorate of Special Operations — the Scorpions — on Friday arrested three directors of medical-supplies company Macmed Health Care in one of South Africa’s largest fraud and corruption cases. Macmed was listed on the JSE and subsequently liquidated in October 1999.
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/ 18 November 2005
South Africa will host an international newspaper congress attended by more than 1Â 300 delegates in 2007, Print Media South Africa said on Friday. The Newspaper Association of South Africa has won a bid to host the World Association of Newspapers 60th World Newspaper Congress, as well as the 14th World Editors’ Forum and Expo Services.
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/ 18 November 2005
Roy Keane was sacked by Manchester United after being barred from playing for the club’s reserves on Thursday evening, according to reports emanating from his home town of Cork after the official announcement of his departure from the club. United issued a statement on Friday claiming that Keane was leaving by mutual consent.
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/ 18 November 2005
A fifth mass grave has been found in northern Namibia, media reports said on Friday. It is near the town of Ondangwa, once a major base of the former South African Defence Force. The grave is only a kilometre away from where a forensic team confirmed the discovery of a fourth mass grave earlier on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2005
Estonia’s serial tree feller, who stalked dozens of trees in a cemetery in the national capital, appears to have been caught in the act, police said on Friday. ”We arrested a 74-year-old man as he was cutting down a tree at Liiva cemetery with a handsaw,” police spokesperson Reimo Raivet told reporters.