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/ 29 September 2005
Authorities have identified 24 of the 51 people who were killed this week in flash floods in northern Vietnam, officials said on Thursday. The total number of fatalities from flash flooding that came on the tail end of Typhoon Damrey is still unknown because some areas remain cut off, an official from Yen Bai province said.
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/ 29 September 2005
Four people died and dozens were injured when hundreds of would-be immigrants tried to storm a border-crossing between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta early on Thursday, as the countries’ prime ministers held a summit on illegal immigration.
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/ 29 September 2005
The 18th World Petroleum Congress has been a ”resounding success” and a demonstration of the increasing cooperation between African governments, the Minister of Minerals and Energy, Lindiwe Hendricks, said on Thursday, the last day of the congress in Johannesburg.
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/ 29 September 2005
”The Independent Democrats in Gauteng have lost their engine room,” the Democratic Alliance’s provincial leader in Gauteng, Ian Davidson, claimed on Thursday. According to a statement released by the DA, 11 leading ID office-bearers — including provincial chairperson Peter Batchelor — are joining the DA.
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/ 29 September 2005
The South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union said on Thursday it was disappointed at the government’s decision to close down a domestic skills project. The project was a sector education and training authority initiative targeting the country’s estimated 1,5-million domestic workers.
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/ 29 September 2005
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero met his Moroccan counterpart Driss Jettou for talks on illegal immigration on Thursday following another night of deadly unrest at a border-crossing between the two countries. The summit was to address joint efforts to contain illegal immigration, as well as the situation in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara.
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/ 29 September 2005
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is inviting residents of his hurricane-wracked city to return by next week, as hundreds of thousands remained homeless along the Gulf of Mexico. ”Come in, inspect your property, if you want to stay, you’re free to stay,” Nagin said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 September 2005
He might be the self-professed enemy of the West, but a decade ago terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden considered seeking asylum in Britain, the country’s interior minister of the time has said. Michael Howard told The Times on Thursday that the request from the al-Qaeda chief appeared to be serious.
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/ 29 September 2005
London are banking on a cash bonanza from the 2012 Olympics after gaining the support from the man who helped write the International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing handbook. Michael Payne, who helped mastermind the IOC’s rise to a billion dollar business has agreed in principle to join London 2012 as a special consultant.
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/ 29 September 2005
It’s a cold, wet Sunday evening outside the Little Highbury pub. Inside, patrons are glued to a huge television screen showing an eagerly awaited football match between two English Premier League teams: Arsenal and Chelsea. Yells, curses and sighs of relief punctuate the proceedings.