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An explosion outside a popular nightclub in Trinidad’s capital wounded at least 10 people on Friday, police said. It was not clear what caused the explosion, but it followed a series of bombings that have all occurred around the same time of the month. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings.
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/ 15 October 2005
It seems an obvious response to a pressing problem. If there are thousands of orphaned children in South Africa who cannot find a home in their extended families, then why not place more emphasis on adoption? And if adoptive families cannot be found locally, why not look abroad?
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/ 15 October 2005
The United States has expressed ”amazement” at a United Nations invitation to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to address a conference in Rome to mark the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. ”I find it amazing they’ve invited Mr Mugabe to speak,” said the US ambassador to the UN food agencies in Rome.
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has asked the state to pay the legal costs of his corruption trial, Beeld newspaper reported on Saturday. Presidency spokesperson Murphey Morobe confirmed Zuma had made the request. The matter is still being decided on.
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/ 15 October 2005
The top United States health official trudged on Saturday through a Vietnamese market where live chickens are sold and slaughtered in an effort to get a very first-hand look at the difficulties of controlling bird flu. US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt was finishing up a four-country tour of South-East Asia.
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/ 15 October 2005
United States President George Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair shortly before the invasion of Iraq that he intended to target other countries, including Saudi Arabia, which, he implied, planned to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Bush said he ”wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD proliferation”.
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/ 15 October 2005
More than 400 000 packaged meals sent by Britain to feed victims of Hurricane Katrina have been sitting in a warehouse in Arkansas because of fears of mad-cow disease and a long-standing ban on British beef. The United States State Department is said to be quickly and quietly looking for a needy country to take the meals.
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/ 15 October 2005
Dr Shahed Uddin was halfway through an operation when he felt it. A low, growling noise rose from the earth, followed by an ominous vibration at his feet. Another tremor. The medic, who was kneeling on the side of a mountain road, froze. So did his patient, a 13-year-old girl with a severe wound, who had been moaning with pain.
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/ 15 October 2005
Iraqis voted amid tight security on Saturday in a landmark referendum on a Constitution aimed at turning a new page on the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein. About 15,5-million Iraqis were registered to vote on the charter, but a key question was how many would brave threats by insurgents who have vowed to disrupt the democratic process.
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/ 15 October 2005
The European Union was awaiting test results on Saturday that should show whether a lethal strain of bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in Asia has reached Europe. Bird flu has been detected in two Romanian villages and the tests will prove whether this is the fatal H5N1 strain. The deadly strain has been detected in Turkey.