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/ 30 September 2005
The lack of depth in Australian tennis will be put to the test in the opening round of next year’s Davis Cup teams competition in Switzerland. The Australians, 28-time winners of the tournament, have fallen on hard times with only journeyman Wayne Arthurs (97) ranked inside the top-100 to support world number five Lleyton Hewitt.
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/ 30 September 2005
Democrats in Congress, who have steadily lost ground against governing Republicans in recent voting, are hoping that mounting ethics scandals will prompt voters to defect from United States President George Bush’s Republican party, with the 2006 election looming.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Russian Federation’s weak and poorly enforced laws against child pornography have turned the country into a haven for paedophiles, participants at a conference in Moscow devoted to the problem said this week. The confenrence heard that child pornography can be distrubuted through the internet with relative impunity because of weaknesses in the criminal code.
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/ 30 September 2005
The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has called for a halt to farm invasions, describing those who try to seize land as ”criminals”, a newspaper reported on Friday. ”The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it,” Governor Gideon Gono said.
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/ 30 September 2005
Several organisations on Friday cautioned against reports indicating that mass circumcisions could help prevent the spread of HIV. ”HIV cannot be prevented by mass circumcisions,” read a statement from the National Organisation of Circumcision Information Resource Centres South Africa.
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/ 30 September 2005
The South African National Editors’ Forum on Friday applauded The Star newspaper for taking immediate action against a reporter who gave evidence for the state in a case he was covering. The newspaper’s lawyers will request the court to expunge Alameen Templeton’s evidence, editor Moegsien Williams said.
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/ 30 September 2005
Benoni residents have been warned not to drink water from the town’s rivers, especially the Blesbokspruit, or use it for irrigation purposes, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Thursday. Spokesperson Marius Keet said the warning came after salmonella was found in effluent at Benoni Sewage Treatment.
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/ 30 September 2005
A new report claims that for years officials at England’s top clubs have been carrying out the systematic abuse of hundreds of thousands of adults. Men and women have been lured in by football club staff with promises of romance, excitement and goals. What they have received instead is something many still find impossible to talk about.
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/ 30 September 2005
Somehow it felt appropriate that Ruud van Nistelrooy provided the decisive moment on a night when the majority of Manchester United’s supporters reminded Sir Alex Ferguson how much they cherished his presence. Including qualifiers, this was the 47th Champions League goal of his career.
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/ 30 September 2005
Within the next three years, motorists travelling alone should expect to pay a fee for doing so, the Department of Transport said on Thursday. The measure, called ”congestion pricing”, will be implemented to encourage the use of public transport, the deputy director general of transport said in Mabatu at the launch of National Transport Month.