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A husband and wife team blew themselves up at one of the Jordanian hotels attacked on Wednesday, al-Qaeda said on Friday. In its third statement posted on the internet, al-Qaeda in Iraq said that it had sent four Iraqis to Jordan to launch suicide attacks, including the wife of one of the bombers.
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Germany moved into a new political era on Friday night as the country’s two biggest parties reached a deal to form a left-right ”grand coalition”. Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU and the social democrat SPD emerged from negotiations with a 130-page agreement that will form the basis of Germany’s bipartisan government.
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The violent train protests and torching of municipal offices in Gauteng this week were the ”ugly face of our reality”, President Thabo Mbeki wrote in his weekly online letter on Friday. ”It is the task of our movement to mobilise the people to protect public property, which is held in trust by the state for the people,” he wrote.
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The father of 10-year-old kidnap victim Liam Aspeling was shot and wounded while in a witness-protection programme, the Vereeniging Regional Court heard on Friday. Vernon Aspeling is a state witness in the Cape High Court trial of a group of people facing 28 charges, including robbery and kidnapping.
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The founder of the African National Congress’s Economic Research Unit, Selebano Zacharia Matlhape, was a lifelong fighter for democracy, the ANC said in paying him tribute on Friday following his death last week. ”South Africa bids a sad farewell to one its most remarkable sons,” said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama.
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Surgeon General Vijay Ramlakan confirmed on Friday that Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota had suffered a heart attack on Wednesday. ”He was alone in his official residence in Cape Town when the incident happened. Minister Lekota … was able to summon help from Staff Sergeant Andre Salamat,” he told reporters.
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A date for the corruption trial of dismissed deputy president Jacob Zuma will formally be set at his appearance in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. Police frisked supporters as they streamed to the court on Friday evening, and put the crowd inside their barriers at more than 2Â 000 by 11pm. More were gathered outside.
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The corruption scandal at Volkswagen (VW) this year robbed Europe’s largest carmaker of at least â,¬5-million in illegal kickbacks and theft, an independent report by auditors KPMG disclosed on Friday. The report brought closer criminal charges against Peter Hartz, the former personnel director.
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/ 11 November 2005
Zimbabwean authorities on Friday freed more than 100 protesters, including top labour leaders, arrested in the capital on Tuesday for demonstrating against economic hardships and shortages in the country. ”They are being released now,” lawyer Alec Muchadehama said in a telephone interview.
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The African National Congress noted ”with pain” the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal on Friday of an appeal by politician Tony Yengeni against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence. The party will continue giving Yengeni moral and political support, it added. The African Christian Democratic Party said Yengeni should be thankful his sentence was not increased.