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The JSE remained in the red at midday on Thursday, but platinum mining stocks bucked the trend, reflecting a strong platinum price. The JSE’s softer tone was on the back of weaker world markets and came despite the rand moving above the 6,60 per dollar level.
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/ 13 October 2005
Zimbabwean and South African parliamentary committees have agreed visas for travel between the two countries should be scrapped, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the portfolio committee on home affairs and defence from the two countries met in Harare on Wednesday.
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/ 13 October 2005
More than 60 people were killed on Thursday, including about 50 militants, after gunmen launched attacks on Russian government installations in the southern city of Nalchik, the region’s top official said. Arsen Kanokov said the attacks were carried out by about 150 armed militants.
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/ 13 October 2005
Lawrence of Arabia told the British Cabinet at the end of World War I that there was no case ”for separating Sunni and Shia Arabs”, an extraordinary foreshadowing of the issues at stake in this weekend’s Iraqi constitutional vote, overseen by United States and British occupying forces.
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/ 13 October 2005
”Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” United States President George Bush told the world after September 11 2001, and he has made it clear ever since that he means it. But in that black and white universe, where do you put Josh Rushing?
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/ 13 October 2005
Madagascar’s President Marc Ravalomanana, his wife, Lalao, and a government minister escaped unhurt when their helicopter caught fire on landing, a presidential aide said on Thursday. Raymond Ramandimbilahatra said the rotor assembly burst into flames as the helicopter was landing.
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/ 13 October 2005
The Cape Bar Council has referred to Chief Justice Pius Langa allegations of racism against the Judge President of the Cape Division John Hlophe. ”If these allegations are indeed true, they are most disturbing,” said advocate Ashton Schippers, chairperson of the Cape Bar Council.
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/ 13 October 2005
United States talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, whose influence can turn the New York Times bestseller list on its head, is having a similar impact on the FBI’s most-wanted list with a campaign to catch fugitive paedophiles. Winfrey launched ”Oprah’s Child Predator Watch List” last week, to almost immediate results.
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/ 13 October 2005
Two HIV-positive women presented to the media in June by the Dr Rath Health Foundation as examples of how its vitamins can reverse Aids have admitted that they were on anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs all along. Meanwhile, the foundation is in the process of expanding its programme to the Eastern Cape.
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/ 13 October 2005
Devery Freeman, a screenwriter who helped create the Writers’ Guild of America and wrote for such TV series as The Thin Man, has died. He was 92. Freeman, who had been ill since having open-heart surgery in March, died on Friday evening in Los Angeles, according to a statement on the guild’s website.