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The state on Wednesday told the Supreme Court of Appeal that the high-court trial of a 12-year-old murderer was ”identified in emotion”. The state is appealing against the sentence imposed on a Pietermaritzburg girl who became South Africa’s youngest female killer in 2004.
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/ 9 November 2005
As he escorts yet more visitors through Shari, a town of fish and icebergs on the northern tip of Japan, tour guide Yoshiji Ishii stops and folds inward his outstretched arms. "When entering an abode of the gods, you have to pray like this," explains Ishii, one of Japan’s indigenous Ainu people.
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/ 9 November 2005
Liberians crowded around radios on Wednesday awaiting results from the presidential run-off between a millionaire soccer star and the war-ravaged West African nation’s top female politician. Final results in the race between George Weah and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will not be announced for two weeks.
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/ 9 November 2005
After three bitterly contested polls in the politically volatile Tanzania’s offshore state of Zanzibar, religious and political leaders fear that the island’s Muslim population may turn to radicalism to vent their frustration. The thrice-beaten opposition Civic United Front party has intensified claims that the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi or Revolutionary party fraudulently won the last three elections.
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/ 9 November 2005
For the woman who wants to stay both warm and environmentally conscious this winter — and isn’t bothered by extra bulk under her shirt — a lingerie maker on Wednesday unveiled a thick bra that can be heated in a microwave. Triumph International modelled the bra in Japan.
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/ 9 November 2005
Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has warned consumers against getting ”carried away” by the current upswing in the economy, saying inflation could bring some nasty surprises. The level of household debt relative to annual disposable income had already risen to almost 62%, marginally higher than its previous peak, he said on Wednesday.
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/ 9 November 2005
The murder of a second defence lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial threatens to unravel the proceedings of the United States-sponsored court, set up to try crimes committed during Iraq’s former dictatorship. Lawyers for Saddam and his seven co-defendants in the trial for crimes against humanity that opened on October 19 have suspended contacts with the court, demanding a 10-point list of demands be met.
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/ 9 November 2005
Former poacher Guillaume Kasereka once used a rusty Russian-made rocket launcher to kill hippos for meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) forests. These days, he says, the competition is too fierce — and the prey too scarce. The world’s largest hippo population is being decimated by poaching, conservation officials in the DRC say.
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/ 9 November 2005
MPs on Wednesday were warned that the Gautrain rapid rail project may be suffering from "optimism bias" where the project may pan out to be far more expensive — and less popular in the eyes of the consumers — than the project planners envisaged.
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/ 9 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust will be hosting its first official fund-raising event on Friday in Durban to raise money for the former South African deputy president’s legal costs. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reported on Friday last week that the trust was facing a financial crisis and that it was "far behind" in achieving its target.