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The JSE was firmer just before noon on Thursday, with higher precious-metals prices and strong performance by gold ADRs (American Depository Receipts) in New York overnight boosting resources stocks. Buying filtered through to other sectors and advancers outnumbered decliners.
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Absa says it is the first major bank in South Africa to offer investment products specifically designed to comply with Islamic sharia law. It said the achievement helps it to realise its strategic intent to provide banking and investment products to meet the needs of its diverse client base.
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/ 10 November 2005
Jordan was on Thursday hunting the masterminds of the worst attacks in the kingdom’s history that killed 57 people and were claimed by the group of homegrown extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The suicide attacks late on Wednesday on one of the closest United States allies in the Middle East targeted three luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital.
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/ 10 November 2005
The latest wave of train torchings has cost Metrorail an estimated R200-million, leaving the company with no more trains to run between Gauteng’s Midway and Vereeniging stations, spokesperson Thandi Mlangeni said on Thursday. Commuters upset over train delays set 28 coaches alight on Wednesday evening.
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/ 10 November 2005
SABMiller plc, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, has reported a 9% rise in its adjusted earnings per share for the six months to the end of September 2005, to 340,5 United States cents from a restated 311,1 US cents a year earlier, the company said on Thursday. SABMiller declared an interim dividend of 13 US cents.
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/ 10 November 2005
Two suicide bombers detonated bombs inside a restaurant frequented by Baghdad police on Thursday morning, killing at least 33 people and injuring 19, police said. The blast echoed through central Baghdad at about 9.45am local time, when police officers usually stop by for breakfast.
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Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Narayanan had been on life support since his admission to the hospital in New Delhi on October 29.
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/ 10 November 2005
Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Narayanan had been on life support since his admission to the hospital in New Delhi on October 29.
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/ 10 November 2005
Savoury ice cream has become a popular fad in trendy Western restaurants, but Taiwan vendor Liny Hsueh is whipping up business with an even stranger range of flavours — seafood. Hsueh’s ”Dr Ice” brand offers ice cream made from shrimp, cuttlefish, tuna, seaweed and laver (purple seaweed) combined with fruits, mint, wasabi, peanut and wine.
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/ 10 November 2005
Violence across France appeared to abate on Thursday in the first 24 hours of emergency measures aimed at stopping the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. Some cities, including the Riviera resorts of Cannes and Nice, imposed curfews on minors. At least 482 cars were set on fire across the country on Wednesday night.