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/ 10 November 2005

Jordan on alert as al-Zarqawi claims blasts

Jordan was on Thursday hunting the masterminds of the worst attacks in the kingdom’s history that killed 57 people and were claimed by the group of homegrown extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The suicide attacks late on Wednesday on one of the closest United States allies in the Middle East targeted three luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital.

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/ 10 November 2005

Train torchings cost Metrorail R200m

The latest wave of train torchings has cost Metrorail an estimated R200-million, leaving the company with no more trains to run between Gauteng’s Midway and Vereeniging stations, spokesperson Thandi Mlangeni said on Thursday. Commuters upset over train delays set 28 coaches alight on Wednesday evening.

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/ 10 November 2005

SABMiller reports rise in earnings per share

SABMiller plc, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, has reported a 9% rise in its adjusted earnings per share for the six months to the end of September 2005, to 340,5 United States cents from a restated 311,1 US cents a year earlier, the company said on Thursday. SABMiller declared an interim dividend of 13 US cents.

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/ 10 November 2005

Indian leader spoke up for minorities

Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Narayanan had been on life support since his admission to the hospital in New Delhi on October 29.

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/ 10 November 2005

Pineapple shrimp and strawberry tuna

Savoury ice cream has become a popular fad in trendy Western restaurants, but Taiwan vendor Liny Hsueh is whipping up business with an even stranger range of flavours — seafood. Hsueh’s ”Dr Ice” brand offers ice cream made from shrimp, cuttlefish, tuna, seaweed and laver (purple seaweed) combined with fruits, mint, wasabi, peanut and wine.

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/ 10 November 2005

French rioting appears to abate slowly

Violence across France appeared to abate on Thursday in the first 24 hours of emergency measures aimed at stopping the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. Some cities, including the Riviera resorts of Cannes and Nice, imposed curfews on minors. At least 482 cars were set on fire across the country on Wednesday night.

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/ 10 November 2005

Bali bomber’s name led to terrorist hideout

The identification of one of the three suicide bombers in October’s Bali restaurant blasts led authorities to the hideout of one of Asia’s most wanted terrorist suspects, the Australian police commissioner said on Thursday. Mick Keelty said Indonesian police identified the suicide bomber from East Java province about 10 days ago.

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/ 10 November 2005

PSL makes a move

Premier Soccer League (PSL) CEO Trevor Phillips has grown tired of comforting and reassuring beaten, bruised and bewildered visitors to the PSL headquarters on the fringe of Harrow Road’s notorious ”Muggers’ Corner” — and finally persuaded the league to move from Doornfontein to a more circumspect area of Johannesburg.