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/ 10 October 2005
Japan’s ruling coalition is expected to achieve a key ambition of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi this week by passing legislation to privatise the country’s sprawling postal service and create the world’s largest private bank. Parliament’s lower house may take up the Bills and approve them as early as Tuesday, setting up a vote in the upper house by week’s end.
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/ 10 October 2005
South Africa is dispatching doctors, medicines and food to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The department told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Monday that it does not know of any South Africans who died or were injured in the quake.
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/ 10 October 2005
Pretoria advocate Dirk Prinsloo asked on Monday for his sex-crimes trial to be split from that of his former girlfriend and co-accused Cezanne Visser. The application was based on Visser’s failure on Friday to challenge evidence that she had admitted to committing sexual deeds with Prinsloo in front of two children.
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/ 10 October 2005
Gerhard Schröder’s Social Democrats agreed on Monday that conservative leader Angela Merkel should replace him as German chancellor at the head of a coalition government, a party spokesperson said. Schröder will play no role in the coalition government, the head of the Christian Social Union said on Monday.
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/ 10 October 2005
Several promising young black gymnasts showed their mettle at the weekend’s acro-gymnastics nationals, which were held at Ermelo in Mpumalanga. Elizke Blofield, a 12-year-old pupil at Laerskool Delmas, and Alexander Demianenko stole the show with brilliant routines to finish with a world-class score of 55,182 (out of 60).
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/ 10 October 2005
New Zealand’s cricket team left for South Africa on Monday, pointing to speedster Shane Bond as a key to combating the hosts’ batting firepower in the five-match one-day series. Bond and Daniel Vettori, a left-arm spinner, will be key to containing the strong South African batting line-up, all-rounder Jacob Oram said.
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/ 10 October 2005
Where to, Bafana Bafana? And where to, coach Stuart Baxter? These were the complex questions on the minds of most South African soccer followers on Sunday following the 2-2 draw against the Democratic Republic of Congo and the consequent qualification for the African Nations Cup tournament early next year.
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/ 10 October 2005
Formula-one critics often complain that there is not enough passing in grand prix races. Well, there was a whole lot of passing going on at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday and Kimi Raikkonen made his last one the best with a winning move past Giancarlo Fisichella entering the last lap.
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/ 10 October 2005
Vince began to break down on Monday over the cooler waters of the far eastern Atlantic, less than a day after making this hurricane season the second-busiest on record, forecasters said. The former Category One hurricane weakened to a tropical storm with top sustained winds near 96,6kph, said forecasters at the National Hurricane Centre.
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/ 10 October 2005
The advent of male impotency drugs has brought unexpected benefits to the animal kingdom, which no longer needs to sacrifice seals, deer and turtles to make traditional cures for erectile dysfunction. A survey of 256 men who used traditional Chinese medicine to cure their ailments found that when it came to sexual problems, more men were switching to pharmaceutical products.