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/ 5 September 2005
Rescuers have plucked tens of thousands of terrified residents from the rooftops of their homes in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast, capturing what may be the bulk of the survivors in readily visible locations. Now the more difficult door-to-door scouring begins, and it could take weeks, if not months.
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/ 5 September 2005
A Boeing 737-200 jetliner crashed on Monday into a densely populated suburb of the northern Indonesian city of Medan and burst into flames minutes after take-off, killing at least 137 people. The Mandala Airlines jet bound for Jakarta was carrying 117 passengers and crew when it slammed into the ground. At least 15 passengers survived.
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/ 5 September 2005
Terence Morgan, the tall, suave actor who appeared in 1950s films including Turn the Key Softly, Tread Softly Stranger and Dance, Little Lady, has died at the age of 83, his family said. His first film role was Laertes in Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet in 1948.
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/ 5 September 2005
The Democratic Alliance wants Parliament’s rules committee to discuss Speaker Baleka Mbete’s decision not to allow a question to be put to President Thabo Mbeki over the arms deal. The question related to Mbeki’s alleged meeting with arms-deal company Thomson-CSF.
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/ 5 September 2005
Veteran Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who faces his first contested election on Wednesday after a quarter of a century in power, is a longtime Western ally who crushed Islamic violence and saw through peace with Israel before coming under pressure for reform.
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/ 5 September 2005
The Department of Correctional Services has dismissed claims that Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour interfered in the recruitment of prison warders in the Eastern Cape to secure a place for his nephew. Balfour’s spokesperson said the minister had no reason to intervene in staff recruitment.
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/ 5 September 2005
The National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) gained almost 500 new members in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend, the party said on Monday. ”We can’t cope with the requests of people asking for Nadeco membership cards,” said Reverend Hawu Mbatha, who last week crossed to Nadeco from the African Christian Democratic Party.
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/ 5 September 2005
Bafana Bafana are out of the 2006 World Cup finals. The stark, irreversible news was received almost disbelievingly by 46-million South Africans on Sunday evening after it was confirmed that Ghana had beaten Uganda 2-0 in Kumasi and will almost certainly go through to Germany from group B as one of Africa’s five participants.
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/ 5 September 2005
The death toll from Japanese encephalitis rose to 460 in a northern Indian state after 28 more people died overnight from an outbreak of the mosquito-born disease, officials said on Monday. More than 500 patients, mostly children, were being treated in government hospitals across Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and among its poorest.
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/ 5 September 2005
One person was killed and at least six injured as a powerful typhoon heading on Monday toward Japan’s mainland lashed Tokyo with torrential rains, flooded homes and cut off power to thousands. A 61-year-old man was found dead late on Sunday on a flooded road in Saitama outside Tokyo after he rushed to help his son whose car was stuck.