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/ 18 October 2005
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has moved a motion in the Cape Town city council asking for the informal settlement in District Six to be moved as soon as possible. ”The conflict over the accommodation of squatters in District Six must be squarely blamed on the ANC’s failure to deliver on the empty land restitution promises it made for the area at the time of the last local government elections,” DA MP James Masango said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 October 2005
Senegal’s private press united on Tuesday in a joint editorial denouncing the day-long closure of a radio network and a wave of arrests, saying ”the monster is still alive” and censorship had put press freedom at stake. ”The authorities have pushed their desire to control the press to a new level,” said the angry editorial published either in print or online by 18 newspapers in the West African country.
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/ 18 October 2005
Prom night, that iconic moment in the life of almost every American teenager, is under unprecedented scrutiny after a Long Island school cancelled its prom on the grounds it had become an overpriced ”orgy” of drugs, alcohol and sex. Kellenberg Memorial High School’s decision to scrap an event it described as ”an exaggerated rite of passage that verges on decadence” is the culmination of decades of debauchery.
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/ 18 October 2005
This year has seen an explosion of new pampering products for man’s furry friends, among the more unusual of which is a fragrance designed to neutralise the sexual scent of female dogs, a study said on Tuesday. The products also include weight loss supplements, sun screen and stress relief sprays, alongside cosmetics like nail polish and hair colour highlights.
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/ 18 October 2005
A senior United Nations official said on Tuesday there are not enough tents in the world to protect refugees from the coming winter after the October 8 earthquake in South Asia. Tents are a priority item with about three million people made homeless, with many of them forced to live in the open in plummeting temperatures.
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/ 18 October 2005
The issue of whether either of the two most senior officials in the African National Congress should occupy equivalent or corresponding positions in the government was up for debate in the build-up to the 1997 Mafikeng conference. With regard to the deputy presidency, in 1994 the issue had not arisen.
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/ 18 October 2005
The worldwide pattern of natural misfortunes in the form of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis is a challenge that no one nation can handle and no one nation must ignore, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Tuesday. She was speaking at the National Climate Change Conference in Midrand.
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/ 18 October 2005
The body of former Ugandan president Milton Obote arrived home on Tuesday for a state funeral to tears and jeers over the late leader’s legacy, which left the nation deeply divided. Torn between remembering Obote as a national hero or despot, Ugandans grieved and rejoiced as the white government-chartered twin-propeller cargo carrying his body landed at Entebbe at 12.45pm.
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/ 18 October 2005
This year’s seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica was the third largest on record, but forecasters are uncertain how it will behave in the future, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Tuesday. The hole peaked last month at almost 27-million square kilometres, and then began shrinking as usual, the WMO said in a statement.
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/ 18 October 2005
An infant gorilla in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil, surprising and intriguing scientists who say they have much to learn about what gorillas can do — and about what that says about evolution.