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/ 2 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Gregg Araki’s new film <i>Mysterious Skin</i> may lack the sense of nihilism often present in his earlier films, but it’s about youthful sexuality and abuse and how different people deal with such things, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 September 2005
South Africa’s leading wine-producing company, Boland Vineyards International, on Friday announced the sale of a 26% stake to an investment firm owned by black women. ”The new company [Boland Basadi Investments] will handle 80% of our wine sales,” Boland Vineyards International chairperson Jannie le Roux said.
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/ 2 September 2005
The French defence minister warned on Friday of ”worrying signs” in Côte d’Ivoire, saying rebel militias there are rebuilding and re-arming in violation of ceasefire accords. Michele Alliot-Marie, speaking on French radio, expressed concern that some Ivorians ”dream only of one thing: to take up arms again”.
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/ 2 September 2005
At least 12 people across Ethiopia have died in storms that have also destroyed harvests in some areas, the local media reported on Friday. Seven female farm labourers were killed by lightning on Wednesday in Tigrai state in northern Ethiopia, where flooding caused by heavy rains also destroyed 175ha of barley and wheat crops.
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/ 2 September 2005
Israel has frozen a controversial project to link its largest West Bank settlement to annexed east Jerusalem, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. The plans to build 3 500 new housing units near Maale Adumim defied the Middle East road-map peace plan.
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/ 2 September 2005
A team of South Korean scientists said on Friday that they had developed a new technology that could open the way to make new devices that could replace current silicon-based semiconductors. The team led by Kim Hyun-Tak of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said they had successfully manufactured what is known as a ”Mott insulator.”
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/ 2 September 2005
The United Nations atomic watchdog was on Friday finalising a report expected to say that Iran has failed to suspend nuclear fuel work and which could trigger UN Security Council sanctions over fears Tehran is developing nuclear weapons, diplomats said. ”As far as we know, they have not suspended [nuclear fuel work],” a diplomat said.
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/ 2 September 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange’s (JSE) equity market had not resumed trade at noon on Friday after trade was halted about half an hour earlier. JSE deputy CEO Nicky Newton-King said trade was suspended after the JSE became aware that many of its members were receiving delayed messages.
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/ 2 September 2005
Fourteen people died and 15 were missing on Friday after Typhoon Talim’s whipping rain and winds walloped China’s east coast and Taiwan, causing widespread damage. Meanwhile, an extremely strong typhoon is churning towards Japan and is on course to hit the nation’s main southern island next week.
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/ 2 September 2005
A Soweto man died after setting fire to his Kliptown, Soweto, home, police reported on Friday. The man had locked himself and his family locked in the house, spokesperson Captain Mbazima Shiburi said. The man’s wife, who managed to escape with minor burns, told police her 44-year-old husband had been drunk.