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/ 29 September 2005
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero met his Moroccan counterpart Driss Jettou for talks on illegal immigration on Thursday following another night of deadly unrest at a border-crossing between the two countries. The summit was to address joint efforts to contain illegal immigration, as well as the situation in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara.
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/ 29 September 2005
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is inviting residents of his hurricane-wracked city to return by next week, as hundreds of thousands remained homeless along the Gulf of Mexico. ”Come in, inspect your property, if you want to stay, you’re free to stay,” Nagin said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 September 2005
He might be the self-professed enemy of the West, but a decade ago terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden considered seeking asylum in Britain, the country’s interior minister of the time has said. Michael Howard told The Times on Thursday that the request from the al-Qaeda chief appeared to be serious.
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/ 29 September 2005
London are banking on a cash bonanza from the 2012 Olympics after gaining the support from the man who helped write the International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing handbook. Michael Payne, who helped mastermind the IOC’s rise to a billion dollar business has agreed in principle to join London 2012 as a special consultant.
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/ 29 September 2005
It’s a cold, wet Sunday evening outside the Little Highbury pub. Inside, patrons are glued to a huge television screen showing an eagerly awaited football match between two English Premier League teams: Arsenal and Chelsea. Yells, curses and sighs of relief punctuate the proceedings.
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/ 29 September 2005
A half-century after his death, the memory and legacy of movie icon James Dean, who in a short but brilliant career incarnated the rebellious angst of a generation, burns brighter than ever. The actor and his off-screen persona left an indelible mark on both cinema and popular culture.
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/ 29 September 2005
The JSE was in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday with higher precious metals prices boosting gold and platinum stocks. The bourse was nevertheless off its record high of 16 770,561 reached in early trade. By 12.06pm, the all share index was up 0,22% at 16 674,7.
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/ 29 September 2005
The long-term insurance industry is in good health with the industry now managing assets in excess of R913-billion for the year to June 2005, a 19% increase on the year before, the Life Offices Association said on Thursday. The total new business premium inflow was up 14% on the comparable six month period in 2004, to R21-billion.
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/ 29 September 2005
World oil prices pushed upwards on Thursday as the market focus remained on United States refineries, many of which are struggling to restart production after recent hurricanes in the US Gulf of Mexico. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, added seven cents to ,42 per barrel in electronic trading.
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/ 29 September 2005
An Australian man has told how he was almost crushed to death after waking up in a garbage-compactor truck following a night out at the pub. Police said closed-circuit television footage showed three men dumping the retail manager in an industrial bin, which was then emptied into the truck.