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The Sudanese government has for the first time agreed to allow Ugandan troops to pursue members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in all parts of southern Sudan, Uganda’s army said on Tuesday. In a deal reached last week, Khartoum lifted restrictions on Ugandan military operations against the LRA in southern Sudan as long as they are coordinated with its army.
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/ 11 October 2005
A fleet of United States-led warships cruises northern Gulf waters with the task of protecting Iraq’s oil terminals from terror attacks that could hurt both the Iraqi economy and world oil markets. Task Force 58, set up for the protection of Khor Al-Amaya and Basra oil terminals, is probably one of the less well-known, but nonetheless most important, missions of the coalition forces in Iraq, where oil exports account for 97% of revenues.
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/ 11 October 2005
A Chinese SUV, the Landwind built by Jiangling Motors, on Tuesday received some of the worst ratings to date in crash tests carried out be Germany’s influential ADAC automobile club. The results, reported in the latest issue of the ADAC’s monthly Motorwelt magazine, termed the â,¬15Â 000 (Â 000) vehicle’s crash results as ”catastrophic”.
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/ 11 October 2005
They walk up to an ATM and press their thumbs on the screen. Out spits the cash. Tokyo? No. New York? No. The mountains and jungles of Colombia. It’s one of the few places in the world where banks are using fingerprint biometrics, which verify people’s identities based on their unique physical characteristics.
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/ 11 October 2005
Huddling under bits of plastic, survivors in quake-hit Muzaffarabad faced fresh heartbreak on Tuesday as torrential rain halted aid efforts hours after they got into gear. Helicopters were forced to stop their mercy flights bringing aid to the Pakistani Kashmir capital and evacuating the worst of the injured from Saturday’s earthquake to hospitals in Islamabad.
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Cellphones in the hands of sub-Saharan African immigrants left to their fate in the desert after trying to reach Spain have proved to be a key weapon in the fight against human rights abuses, allowing aid organisations and the media to find them.
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/ 11 October 2005
Three police officers on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges of battery after they were filmed repeatedly beating a 64-year-old man outside a bar in New Orleans. Footage from Associated Press showed Robert Davis being punched in the face, his head striking a wall, before being bundled to the ground by four officers and subjected to blows and kicks.
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Jacob Zuma’s lawyer advocate Kessie Naidu told the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday that his client’s case could not be transferred to the High Court without an indictment. ”There are no charges pending in the High Court,” said Naidu.
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/ 11 October 2005
Anthony Brink, President Thabo Mbeki’s former HIV/Aids muse and now Dr Rath Health Foundation "policy adviser", has launched an extraordinary attack on a number of South African women journalists, describing them as "pious, industry-sweetheart, trendy-leftie stupid white women" .
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/ 11 October 2005
A 39 year-old South African man was detained in France after walking through the channel tunnel from Britain, police said on Tuesday. The unnamed man, who had only a pair of flip-flop sandals on his feet, was spotted by security cameras at the French end of the 50km tunnel early on Sunday morning.