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He is Russia’s most wanted man, with tens of thousands of soldiers on his trail, but a year after masterminding the Beslan massacre, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev remains at large, openly mocking the Kremlin. Meanwhile, hundreds of Beslan residents have signed a petition requesting political asylum abroad.
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/ 1 September 2005
Australian nightclub doorman Allan Teli has withdrawn a complaint about racism against Springbok captain John Smit, South African Rugby said on Thursday. Teli on Sunday laid a formal complaint against Smit, accusing the Springbok captain of having used a racist slur against him in a Sydney bar.
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/ 1 September 2005
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund donated R1-million on Thursday to the Children’s Hospital Trust for the refurbishment of the Red Cross War Memorial
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/ 1 September 2005
Researchers have found long-awaited proof that a drug derived from a Chinese plant fights severe malaria far more effectively than older treatments do — but this breakthrough may not help children in Africa, where severe malaria progresses differently than it does in Asia.
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/ 1 September 2005
South Korea has expressed concern about a service offered by United States internet search company Google that shows satellite photos of sensitive facilities in the country, the president’s office said on Thursday. ”As [Google’s] satellite photos are beyond our control, we are in discussion with US authorities,” said presidential spokesperson Kim Man-Soo.
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/ 1 September 2005
They drink half as much red wine as they used to, barely anyone wears a beret, the bidet has been banished from their bathrooms … and now they’ve stopped making Gauloises. Le pays, as the French do not say, is going to les chiens. The Franco-Spanish cigarette firm Altadis confirmed on Wednesday that it was closing down the last factory in France still turning out its near-mythical dark tobacco brands.
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/ 1 September 2005
A British man died in a high-speed accident because he allowed his seven-year-old son to steer, a coroner’s inquest ruled. Peter Mourier (50) of Kingshill, encouraged his son David to lean over and steer the car as it traveled at 110kph on a motorway in western Britain on March 4.
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/ 1 September 2005
More than 1 000 compulsive gamblers have been officially banned from casinos in the Eastern Cape, media reports said on Thursday. Among those banned, is a businessman who claims to have blown more than R30-million at gambling tables in the province.
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/ 1 September 2005
Make institutions work Christopher Caudwell, in Studies in a Dying Culture, picks on Rousseau to expose the fallacy in the idea that human beings lose their freedom because of institutions. “Unfortunately, not only is man not good without institutions, he is not evil, either. He is no man at all; he is neither good nor […]
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LETTERS September 16 – 22 2005 An ungenerous critique Rena Singer’s commentary (“Is loveLife making them love life?”, August 19) is thought-provoking and provocative. Healthy public debate about our national response to the HIV/Aids epidemic is important to increasing public understanding of Aids and to improving the public response. In provoking this, Singer’s article makes […]