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/ 10 November 2005
Fiery union leader Amir Peretz won a stunning victory over Shimon Peres in the leadership contest for Israel’s Labour Party, officials said on Thursday, dealing the party’s elder statesman the latest in a long line of defeats and promising to shake up the country’s political system.
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/ 10 November 2005
Three men who claim they were assaulted by metro police chief Robert McBride have accused the controversial cop of being the aggressor, media reports said on Wednesday. McBride, however, says he was punched and kicked by the three men after he saw them skip three red traffic lights on Saturday and tried to force their car off the road.
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/ 10 November 2005
A star-studded auction at a banquet in Johannesburg raised millions of rands for South African charities on Wednesday night. A yellow Lamborghini fetched R2,5-million, and a pair of diamond earrings worn by multiple Grammy-winner Christina Aguilera went for R50 000.
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/ 10 November 2005
Angry commuters torched 27 carriages on four Metrorail trains at three Soweto stations on Wednesday night. The incidents followed Tuesday’s burning of four carriages in Vereeniging by commuters irate at an absence of train services following the theft of a cable from Viljoensdrift.
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/ 10 November 2005
The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Wikipedia’s popularity is shown by the fact that it records 1 000 page views per second, with about 100 servers to handle the traffic. However, the quality of entries is uneven; sometimes entries are even factually incorrect.
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/ 10 November 2005
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s authority was thrown into doubt on Wednesday after his attempt to toughen up Britain’s anti-terror laws in the wake of the London bombings was roundly defeated in Parliament. It was the first time in his eight years in power that Blair had been humiliated in the House of Commons.
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/ 10 November 2005
Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three United States-registered hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding up to 300 in an al-Qaeda-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the US and a border with Iraq. Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said most of those killed were Jordanians.
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/ 10 November 2005
At first glance, the computer room at Optima College looks like any other computer room at schools around the country. Young adult learners sit in front of a row of computers with standard keyboards. Their teacher, Deena Moodley, moves attentively between them, clarifying questions. But something is different –
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/ 10 November 2005
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will consider issuing the national Department of Education (DoE) with a subpoena if it does not present the commission with a written submission in a month.
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/ 10 November 2005
The 2004 school year was a tough one for Lerato Mokhele, a Grade 1 teacher at Asteri Primary School, on the border of Hillbrow in Johannesburg. Two young boys in her class always needed special attention.