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Poland’s leading Law and Justice party launched formal coalition talks on Monday, with a strengthened hand a day after its candidate, Lech Kaczynski, won the presidency. Kaczynski won with 54% of Sunday’s vote, compared with 46% for opponent Donald Tusk, of the pro-market Civic Platform party.
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/ 24 October 2005
A new black economic empowerment (BEE) share scheme at Nedbank, called Eyethu, will most likely be tested in the Equality Court after a complaint by one of its members, said labour union Solidarity on Sunday. A "white" member of Solidarity was turned away twice from Nedbank last week, the union said.
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was granted leave on Monday to appeal against an earlier ruling by the Johannesburg High Court that documents confiscated in a raid on one of former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s attorneys had to be returned.
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/ 24 October 2005
An unidentified merchant vessel is feared to have been hijacked in pirate-infested Somali waters in the latest in a surge of attacks on commercial shipping that have sparked dire maritime warnings, an official said on Monday. Contact with the ship, which was transporting cargo from Dubai to Somalia, was lost late last week.
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/ 24 October 2005
A Zimbabwean opposition lawmaker on Monday said his party received ,5-million in illegal funding from three foreign states, the latest blow in a bitter feud threatening to split the main opposition apart. A spokesperson for Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has denied the lawmaker’s claims.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Freedom Front Plus has won the University of Pretoria’s annual student representative council elections for the ninth time in a row, party leader Pieter Mulder said on Monday. ”The result is of special importance seen in the light of the language debate which is currently taking place at historically Afrikaans universities,” Mulder said.
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/ 24 October 2005
Arriving by donkey, helicopter, or on the shoulders of desperate relatives, grievously injured villagers are still streaming into makeshift hospitals in northern Pakistan 16 days after the earthquake that destroyed their world. By mid-afternoon on Sunday 420 patients had passed through a well-equipped field hospital run by army medics from the United Arab Emirates.
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/ 24 October 2005
With senior militant leaders looking on, Palestinian officials opened an international competition on Sunday testing participants’ knowledge of the Qur’an. About 700 people, including diplomats and leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hamas crowded into a cultural centre for the first day of the al-Aqsa international competition for the holy Qur’an.
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/ 24 October 2005
Nigerian authorities have banned the private television station whose reporters were the first to find the site where an airliner crashed killing all 117 on board, the National Broadcasting Commission announced on Monday. Earlier, several Nigerian officials had incorrectly told journalists that the crash site was in Kishi, a remote rural area 400km further north.
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/ 24 October 2005
Seven French climbers and 11 Nepalese mountain guides were killed in a massive avalanche last week in the north-west of Nepal, the head of the Himalayan Rescue Association said on Monday. The private association sent a 10-member rescue team to find survivors of the October 20 avalanche.