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/ 10 November 2005
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
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.
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/ 10 November 2005
When WBC champion Vitali Klitschko called it quits on Tuesday because of his broken-down body, a big dream of the two Klitschko brothers died. Tuesday’s operation for torn right-knee ligaments, which forced the cancellation of Saturday’s title defence against Hasim Rahman, was Klitschko’s fifth major surgery in five years.
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/ 10 November 2005
It is unfortunate that there is not more time for South Africa to get used to conditions in India, but they will just have to use every opportunity to familiarise themselves with conditions there, former batting great Daryll Cullinan said on Thursday. ”I believe the team should do quite well in India,” he said.
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/ 10 November 2005
Muhammad Ali, his hands shaking and eyes reflecting the White House chandeliers, accepted the nation’s highest civilian award from President George Bush on Wednesday. Bush called him ”the greatest of all time” and ”a man of peace”, and tied the Presidential Medal of Freedom around the former heavyweight champion’s neck.
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/ 10 November 2005
Nine million young people in Nigeria are to be sent text messages on Wednesday to raise awareness about HIV/Aids.
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/ 10 November 2005
Global pulp and paper producer Sappi on Thursday reported a net loss per share of 94 United States cents for the year ended September 30 after earnings of 42 cents a year ago. Headline earnings per share amounted to seven US cents per share after headline earnings per share of 43 cents a year ago.
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/ 10 November 2005
Health workers rushed to contain an outbreak of acute diarrhoea among hundreds of earthquake survivors at a squalid tent camp, and the Pakistani army appealed to donors on Thursday for more blankets, clothes and food for the coming winter. In Washington, United States President George Bush urged Americans to give more to help quake victims.
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/ 10 November 2005
United States envoy to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell has gotten off with a warning after raising the ire of his host country, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the Zimbabwean government had summoned and warned him not to interfere in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs.
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/ 10 November 2005
Some of the world’s top oil executives were on Wednesday forced to defend themselves in Washington against charges of profiteering. At a politically charged Senate hearing, executives from Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and ConocoPhillips were grilled about the eye-popping size of recent earnings.