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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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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.
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The African National Congress has denied reported differences between President Thabo Mbeki and his party deputy, Jacob Zuma, over ways to heal a rift within the party. The party’s national working committee said on Monday night this emerged from its weekly meeting held in Johannesburg earlier in the day.
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/ 15 November 2005
The great and good of Kazakhstan are getting tired of having to clear up wild misconceptions about their republic. They are tired of having to insist that shooting a dog and then having a party is not a favourite national pastime and of denying that their wine is made of fermented horse urine and that women are kept in cages.
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/ 15 November 2005
A powerful earthquake shook northern Japan early on Tuesday, triggering small tsunami waves that struck towns along the north-eastern coast about 350km away. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the magnitude-7,1 quake hit at 6.39am local time.
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Australia’s only nuclear reactor was a possible target for alleged Islamic militants arrested for plotting a major attack, it was revealed on Monday. In a 21-page report, police investigators said members of the terror cell were stockpiling bomb-making materials as well as sizing up a possible strike on the reactor.
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/ 15 November 2005
Spanish police have traced up to 42 suspected CIA operatives believed to have taken part in secret flights carrying detained or kidnapped Islamist terror suspects to interrogation centres and jails in Afghanistan, Egypt and elsewhere. Germany and Italy are already investigating similar flights.
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French President Jacques Chirac acknowledged on Monday night that France’s 18 nights of urban violence have revealed a ”profound malaise” in society and launched an appeal to combat the ”poison” of racial discrimination. Chirac delivered his first formal address to the nation since the unrest started on October 27.