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/ 21 October 2005
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Thursday extended by three months the mandate of its protection force in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur amid escalating violence. The PSC adopted the decision to renew the mandate of its African Union Mission in Sudan until January 20, 2006.
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/ 21 October 2005
Celebratory gunfire erupted in the Somali capital late on Thursday on the release from jail of Mogadishu’s police chief, who was arrested in Sweden this week on suspicion of genocide. Militiamen in control of the bullet-scarred city unleashed a torrent of anti-aircraft artillery and machine gun fire into the sky after Colonel Abdi Hassan Awlae Qeybdid confirmed reports of his release in a live radio interview.
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/ 21 October 2005
Prince William is embarking on an army career after being admitted to Britain’s premier military academy where his younger brother is already training, royal officials said Friday. The dashing 23-year-old was "absolutely delighted" to learn that he can go to Sandhurst academy, which will see him join a long line of royals who have served in the armed forces.
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/ 21 October 2005
Africa’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, South Africa, this week unveiled plans for a research and development strategy to address climate change at a national conference in Midrand. However, some local scientists were unimpressed with the conference.
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/ 21 October 2005
The threat posed by biological weapons such as anthrax must be taken seriously by both African governments and African scientists, warned a meeting of international experts in Kampala in Uganda this month. Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park recently recovered from an outbreak of anthrax among wildlife there.
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/ 21 October 2005
Australia will throw the book at misbehaving Wallabies following a South African nightclub spat. The Wallabies were forced to send scrum-half Matt Henjak home in disgrace last July after he scuffled with teammate Lote Tuqiri at a Cape Town nightclub just two days before their first Test against the Springboks.
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/ 21 October 2005
Lebanon’s pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud faced renewed calls to resign on Friday after a United Nations report implicated Syrian and Lebanese security services in the murder of ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri. The killing triggered an international outcry and led many in Lebanon to point the finger at Syria.
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/ 21 October 2005
South African National Assembly minerals and energy portfolio committee has given the Diamonds Amendment Bill — which will set up a state diamond-trading system — the nod. The Diamonds Amendment Bill will also pave the way for a tax on exports of rough diamonds.
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/ 21 October 2005
If Singapore is a shopper’s paradise, Changi airport must be its golden gate. With its plush carpeting, smartly dressed sales staff and modern decor, Changi could be mistaken for a chic mall along the Orchard Road shopping belt were it not for the signs pointing to flight boarding gates — and the jumbo jets parked beyond the glass walls.
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/ 21 October 2005
The defence lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein who was kidnapped just a day after the opening of the former Iraqi dictator’s trial over a Shi’ite massacre has been killed, officials said on Friday. The body of Saadoun Janabi was found with a bullet to his head in the impoverished northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Ur.