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/ 22 September 2005
The country that unleashed Big Brother on an unsuspecting world has taken reality television a step further: a late-night talk show whose presenters will consume drugs and engage in sex acts on air, then discuss their experiences afterwards. The Spuiten & Slikken show starts on October 10.
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/ 22 September 2005
Israeli threats to prevent next year’s Palestinian elections unless Hamas is disarmed could lead to a collapse of the present ceasefire and a new wave of attacks from the West Bank, the militant group has warned. Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanded that Hamas disarm and renounce its charter.
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/ 22 September 2005
Crude oil prices climbed toward a barrel on Thursday as Hurricane Rita closed in on Texas, raising fears it would hit key production facilities along the United States Gulf Coast that were largely untouched by Hurricane Katrina’s onslaught three weeks ago. The category-five hurricane is expected to strike Texas on Saturday.
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/ 22 September 2005
At least 64 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced after powerful storms left a trail of devastation across the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Wednesday. The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh bore the brunt of the storms, which killed 58 people in the region.
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/ 22 September 2005
Social crimes, which are on the increase, are often committed behind closed doors and difficult to police, according to Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Addressing a Business against Crime dinner, he said combined efforts by government ministries have increased the number of arrests and improved investigations.
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/ 22 September 2005
A United States airliner with 146 people on board made a dramatic but safe emergency landing on Wednesday amid a hail of sparks and smoke after its nose wheels jammed wildly out of alignment. Sparks, flames and a pall of thick smoke erupted from the tyres as they scraped along the tarmac.
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/ 22 September 2005
South Africa needed more black accountants, President Thabo Mbeki told the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) on Wednesday evening. Mbeki was speaking at a dinner marking Saica’s 25th anniversary. ”I think we will agree that we should mobilise more resources” to help train black accountants, Mbeki said.
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/ 22 September 2005
Hundreds of police officers and civilians marched in Basra on Wednesday denouncing ”British aggression” in the raid to free the two undercover soldiers arrested by Iraqi police on Monday. The protesters, some carrying handguns and AK-47s, waved banners calling for the two men be tried as terrorists.
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/ 22 September 2005
Tens of thousands of people along the United States Gulf Coast grabbed their most prized possessions, boarded up their homes and fled on Wednesday in the face of the onslaught from Hurricane Rita, a category-five storm that could rival Hurricane Katrina in intensity when it makes landfall this weekend.
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/ 22 September 2005
Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to â,¬1Â 000 (R7Â 700) a month — almost the minimum wage — to stop work for a year and have a third child under a government scheme to boost the birth rate, already among the highest in Europe.