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/ 12 October 2005
Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50-million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn on Wednesday. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10-million people a year.
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/ 12 October 2005
Martha Nakaramba’s two teenage children are taking turns travelling to nearby Mozambique to bring food home to this drought-stricken area of southern Malawi and care for their 35-year-old mother who is sick with HIV/Aids. Sitting outside her small mud-brick hut, Nakaramba musters enough strength to explain in a barely audible voice that that is how they are coping with the severe food shortages hitting Malawi.
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/ 12 October 2005
The multimillion-rand hijacking trial in which kidnapped schoolboy Liam Aspeling’s father is to testify for the state is scheduled to start in the Cape High Court on Monday. This is according to advocate William Booth, defence counsel for two of the 11 accused, brothers Selwyn and Virgil de Vries, both from Ennerdale, where Liam was snatched on Tuesday.
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/ 12 October 2005
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued a joint report on Wednesday highlighting the plight of thousands of child offenders serving life sentences in United States prisons without hope of parole. At least 2 225 people are currently held under such sentences for crimes committed before they were 18.
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/ 12 October 2005
Rwandan Hutu rebels killed 25 Congolese villagers with machetes, a United Nations Mission in Congo official said in Kinshasa on Tuesday. It was unclear whether the FDLR (Forces for Liberation and Defence of Rwanda) rebels or a splinter group that calls itself the Rasta militia, carried out the attack.
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/ 12 October 2005
Despite promises by the Italian football authorities to clamp down on racism, Serie A defender Marc Zoro says he constantly suffers ”deplorable” insults because of the colour of his skin. ”It happens less in the south of Italy, but I have problems all the time. All this makes me really sad. It’s not easy for me and it hurts. I don’t deserve this.”
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/ 12 October 2005
Less than a week into her pro career, golf prodigy Michelle Wie isn’t seeing any cons. The Korean-American schoolgirl celebrated her 16th birthday on Tuesday at the Bighorn Golf Club, where she will make her pro debut on Thursday in the 000 LPGA Samsung World Championship.
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/ 12 October 2005
South Africa’s broadband market is expected to be dominated by mobile and wireless technologies as service providers and mobile networks look to reach a larger segment of the market with always-on internet access offerings, Nashua Mobile managing director Mark Taylor said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 October 2005
The intensive odour in many new cars results from a toxic cocktail of more than 100 different chemicals that can have serious health effects, the German environmental organisation Bund has warned. Bund and its sister organisation in Austria, Global 2000, conducted tests on six cars including models from Opel, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and Alfa Romeo.
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/ 12 October 2005
A member of the Swedish Academy that will award this year’s Nobel prize for literature tomorrow has attacked last year’s surprise winner, Elfriede Jelinek, dismissing her work as ”whingeing, unenjoyable, violent pornography”. The Swedish author Knut Ahnlund said on Tuesday he was quitting the academy in disgust over the decision to award the 2004 prize to the Austrian novelist.