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/ 27 October 2005
Malawian police and members of a corruption-busting unit on Thursday searched the home of former president Bakili Muluzi, who is being investigated for alleged graft, his lawyer said. ”They took a few documents,” said Dave Kanyenda, a lawyer for Muluzi, outside Muluzi’s mansion in Limbe.
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/ 27 October 2005
Top officials from Zimbabwe’s main opposition held crisis talks on Thursday amid an appeal by its leader to iron out differences over contesting next month’s controversial polls to a new Senate which threatens to split the party. Cracks in the opposition widened on Monday after 26 members defied Tsvangirai’s call to boycott next month’s elections to a new upper house of Parliament
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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has appealed to all parties to ensure their candidates for the upcoming municipal elections have the interests of their communities at heart and not self-interest. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said there appeared to be intense competition among people wanting to be elected by their parties as candidates for the elections.
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/ 27 October 2005
Aids activists on Thursday challenged Western Cape health MEC Pierre Uys to seek a court interdict against vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath, or even have him arrested. The call was made in a memorandum handed over at a demonstration by about 200 Treatment Action Campaign members outside Uys’s office in Cape Town.
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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has dismissed speculation South Africa might follow Zimbabwe’s example in dealing with land reform. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said the government was committed to respect the Constitution regarding its approach to land reform, restitution and redistribution.
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/ 27 October 2005
United States President George Bush announced on Thursday that his choice to fill a US Supreme Court vacancy, Harriet Miers, had withdrawn her nomination. The surprise withdrawal of Miers’s nomination comes just over three weeks after she was recommended for the high-profile legal post by Bush on October 3.
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/ 27 October 2005
About R67,2-million not spent on HIV/Aids projects may be given to international organisations, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said at Parliament on Thursday. ”As a minister of health I wouldn’t be proud of that statement,” she told reporters at a pre-Aids Day briefing.
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/ 27 October 2005
Dozens of people were wounded, one of them seriously, on Thursday in clashes between rival factions in the bitter campaign for next month’s referendum on Kenya’s draft Constitution, police and witnesses said. In addition to the injuries, many caused by machete-wielding rioters, a car belonging to a Kenyan lawmaker was set ablaze when then two camps attacked each other in the west of the country.
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/ 27 October 2005
Tour de France organisers unveiled the 20-stage 2006 edition in Paris on Thursday which will be held next July 1-23 and totalling around 3 600km. It will be the first not to feature seven-time winner Lance Armstrong, who is now retired, but the American was a hot topic despite the presence of several of his potential successors.
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/ 27 October 2005
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, on Thursday promised a wide-ranging retaliation against Palestinian militants following Wednesday’s suicide bombing that killed five people. The bomber struck near a falafel stand in Hadera, a busy coastal market town, scattering metal shrapnel that shattered windows and destroyed cars.