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/ 5 September 2005
Germany’s conservative challenger Angela Merkel on Sunday night scored a decisive victory over chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the only live debate of the German election campaign. In a gripping 90-minute TV duel, Merkel repeatedly got the better of a stumbling Schröder — telling Germans that the only way to get the country out of its present mess was to vote for her Christian Democrat party.
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/ 4 September 2005
Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi security forces on Saturday in clashes around Baqouba, while United States and Iraqi forces intensified an offensive in a rebel-infested city that the Americans subdued last year — only to have the Iraqis lose control. Eight police officers died in a pair of shootouts in Baqouba, 55km north-east of Baghdad.
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/ 4 September 2005
The three suicide bombers who carried out the deadly July attacks at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were Bedouin members of an Islamist cell whose chief has been arrested, security sources said on Saturday. The three were identified through DNA tests and the confessions of 29 suspects.
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/ 4 September 2005
United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland on Saturday urged the world to help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as it experiences one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in recent years, comparing the loss of life to that in the December 2004 tsunami crisis.
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/ 4 September 2005
Take one soup cube, pepper, salt and onions, not forgetting chunks of monkey, head included. Cook in a casserole and serve. At the restaurant Maman Marie Gibier in Libreville, the dish will set appreciative diners back 1 500 francs CFA (R17,40). ”I have been eating monkey since I was little,” said one diner.
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/ 4 September 2005
Paris police arrested four suspects after the latest fire in an apartment building in a Paris suburb left 12 people dead, local authorities said on Sunday. Mayor Patrick Seve of L’Hay-les-Roses in the Department Val-de-Marnes said witnesses had seen four young people setting fire to the 18-storey apartment block.
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/ 4 September 2005
At least 24 security personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in the central Indian Chattisgarh state, police said on Sunday. Militants blew up a patrolling vehicle in the Dantewada district, 400km south of state capital Raipur, late on Saturday night, officers at district police headquarters said.
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/ 4 September 2005
Inkatha Freedom Party defector Ziba Jiyane on Sunday scoffed at suggestions that he could be likened to former New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk. In an interview at his home in Richards Bay, he said the idea presented by his former party boss, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, is ridiculous.
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/ 4 September 2005
World champion Michael Schumacher warned his Ferrari team’s loyal Tifosi fans in Monza on Saturday not to expect a miracle podium performance from him in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. Schumacher looked a shadow of his seven-time title-winning self when he settled for seventh in qualifying on Saturday.
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/ 4 September 2005
In a tough, bruising and uncompromising Currie Cup match in Durban on Saturday, the Free State Cheetahs muscled their way to a 29-18 victory to end the unbeaten run of the Sharks. In other matches, Western Province beat the Lions, Griquas beat Boland, the Eagles defeated the Griffons and the Falcons beat the Pumas.