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/ 17 October 2005
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) on Monday welcomed the efforts by the Department of Transport, nationally and provincially, to encourage the general public to use public transport by pronouncing October "transport month".
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/ 17 October 2005
China on Monday strongly protested over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s controversial visit to a war shrine, calling it a ”serious provocation” ”The Chinese government firmly opposes Prime Minister Koizumi worshipping the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines A-grade war criminals,” China’s ambassador to Japan Wang Yi said in Tokyo, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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/ 17 October 2005
Leg-spin terrors Stuart MacGill and Shane Warne spun Australia to a comprehensive 210-run victory over the World XI in the Super Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. The Australians wrapped up another conclusive triumph following last week’s 3-0 clean sweep of the one-dayers, ending the match just over an hour after lunch on the fourth day of the scheduled six-day Test.
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/ 17 October 2005
Annika Sorenstam’s march to another LPGA milestone was overshadowed on Sunday by the disqualification of teen sensation Michelle Wie in her first professional start. Initially lost in the hype surrounding Wie’s professional debut, Sorenstam was the undisputed star on Sunday as she posted an eight-shot victory at the 000 Samsung World Championship, while Wie was disqualified.
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/ 17 October 2005
Heavy rains receded on Monday in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, giving hope that efforts could resume to bring aid to the millions of homeless survivors of a monster earthquake that killed an estimated 54Â 000 people. Two strong aftershocks struck the region in the early morning, including one with a magnitude of 4,5, but there was no immediate report of damage.
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/ 17 October 2005
Saddam Hussein, the ousted dictator who delivered a brutal brand of justice to Iraqis during his 24-year reign, faces trial on Wednesday by an Iraqi tribunal which could sentence him to death if he is convicted. Rights groups have amply documented his ruthlessness and cruelty, and the court will attempt to make him answer charges of crimes against humanity during a Shi’ite civilian massacre in 1982.
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/ 17 October 2005
Beleaguered Cape Judge President John Hlophe was on Sunday given an opportunity to put his side of the racism row to his peers in the judiciary. And though he left the meeting of the country’s heads of courts immediately afterwards, thumping the door shut behind him, Chief Justice Pius Langa denied that he had stormed out.
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/ 17 October 2005
Scientists have perfected a way of making embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryos from which they derive, a breakthrough that will challenge United States President George Bush’s opposition to the research. The discovery of a technique to extract stem cells without impairing the embryos could remove a major hurdle facing scientists who are trying to develop treatments for diseases such as diabetes and motor neurone disease.
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/ 17 October 2005
A black building contractor from Brits alleges he is facing bankruptcy after refusing to pay a R400Â 000 backhander to a local council official. After not answering <i>Mail & Guardian</i> questions for three weeks, council spokesperson KS Ngubegusha described the claim as "laughable".
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/ 17 October 2005
I must say, I was wondering how the Jews and the whites were going to get away with it this time. With the blacks having taken over the media in a general way, there didn’t seem to be much left that blacks couldn’t say about what they really thought about oppression, exploitation and all those other things that are said to have happened back in the bad old fairy-tale days.