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/ 15 November 2005
World oil prices were mixed on Monday, continuing to rally in New York from last week’s four-month low point but falling in London as traders monitored weather patterns in the northern hemisphere. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, climbed 16 cents to close at ,69 a barrel.
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/ 15 November 2005
The head of a labour union confronting the Central African Republic government over its failure to pay its public servants was arrested on Monday over allegations he received ”unwarranted payments”, union officials said. The Central African Republic government, in serious financial straits, is unable to pay its 20Â 000 public servants.
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/ 15 November 2005
Ugandan police have arrested a major opposition leader and charged him with treason, saying for the first time they suspect him of links to the notorious rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. The arrest on Monday touched off protests that police put down with tear gas, rubber bullets and a water cannon.
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/ 15 November 2005
Wales captain Gareth Thomas wants the injury-hit Six Nations champions to show character when they face South Africa at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday. ”I am not going to make excuses regarding injury or lack of preparation, because that is all it is — excuses,” Thomas said on Monday.
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/ 15 November 2005
New Zealand great Jonah Lomu is humbled and excited to be part of a rugby team again following his lifesaving kidney transplant, he said at his presentation by the Cardiff Blues on Monday. Lomu has a seven-month contract to play for Cardiff in Welsh and European competitions.
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/ 15 November 2005
Listed fund-management group Coronation Fund Managers, one of South Africa’s largest independent fund-management companies, has posted a 29% increase in its assets under management for the year to the end of September 2005, reaching R82-billion from R63,7-billion a year earlier.
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/ 15 November 2005
Not only did CEO Raymond Hack say on Monday that the South African Football Association (Safa) had received no correspondence from Stuart Baxter intimating he was resigning as Bafana Bafana coach, but he also confirmed that arrangements for the African Nations Cup were proceeding on the basis Baxter would be the national coach.
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/ 15 November 2005
When South Africa toured India last year for a Test series, Mahendra Dhoni was just another aspirant for the Indian cricket team and played a tour game against them. Exactly a year later, when they are visiting for five one-dayers starting on Wednesday, he is a more swashbuckling batsman than even the likes of Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar.
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/ 15 November 2005
A car bomb blast near a restaurant in eastern Baghdad early on Tuesday killed four people and wounded seven others, including two children playing on the street, police said. Meanwhile, United States and Iraqi troops continued an operation against insurgents in a stronghold near the Syrian border on Tuesday.
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/ 15 November 2005
Seventy-eight healthy South Africans are to test a new candidate HIV vaccine over the next 18 months. The International Aids Vaccine Initiative and a United States company need to determine if the medication is safe and effective. The candidate vaccine is based on the subtype of the virus most prevalent in Southern and East Africa.