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/ 25 September 2005
Israeli aircraft blasted suspected Palestinian weapons facilities and other militant targets throughout the Gaza Strip on Sunday, at the launch of what the military said would be a ”prolonged” offensive against Hamas militants for bombarding
Israeli towns with rockets. A group of senior Israeli Cabinet officials, led by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, approved the military operation in Gaza at an emergency meeting late on Saturday after Hamas militants fired nearly 40 rockets from Gaza at southern Israeli towns.
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/ 25 September 2005
Rita is no longer a hurricane but is expected to produce ”torrential rains during the next few days,” the National Hurricane Centre said on Saturday. At 6pm GMT Rita’s wind strength had slackened to about 105km per hour, making her a tropical storm. The United States Energy Department said it expects ”minimal disruption” to oil supplies.
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/ 25 September 2005
Several thousand people streamed through the streets of Johannesburg on Saturday in the 16th annual Gay Pride march themed ”the right to be, the freedom to express”. On foot or dancing on buses or trucks, a largely white crowd made its festive way through the city under the blazing sun.
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/ 24 September 2005
Looking back, it is clear when the tide turned on Britain’s year for Africa. The four bombs in the London rush hour on the morning of July 7 marked the high water mark of the West’s cooperation on development and things have never been quite the same since. The terrorists timed their attacks to coincide with the G8 Gleneagles summit.
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/ 24 September 2005
The other day I saw a fat, white kid in the international departure hall at Johannesburg airport. His straining T-shirt had three broad hoops of colour across it: orange, white and blue. On his belly the flags of the Transvaal Republic, Orange Free State and Cape Colony bulged out of shape
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/ 24 September 2005
Eight Zimbabwean soccer players have gone missing in London following a controversial trip to the United Kingdom to play a match, a newspaper reported in Harare on Saturday. Two soccer officials have also disappeared, the state-controlled Herald reported.
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/ 24 September 2005
Robbers shot dead a Nigerian policeman in a raid on a United States-owned oil services company in the restive southern city of Port Harcourt on Friday, police said. Gunmen attacked police guarding the Willbros depot in Choba on the outskirts of the city and killed one officer, said Rivers State police commissioner Samuel Adetuyi.
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/ 24 September 2005
A strike by at Nationwide airlines was receiving little support on Saturday, the company’s financial director said. The trade union Solidarity had said its about 320 members would go on strike from Friday afternoon. The airline employs about a thousand staff.
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/ 24 September 2005
More great play from Retief Goosen and Adam Scott helped the International team keep their slim lead over the United States at 6-5 after better-ball matches in the Presidents Cup on Friday. Goosen and Scott remained perfect at 2-0, along with Justin Leonard and Scott Verplank who prevented the International team from an even larger lead by rallying to win their match 2 and 1.
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/ 24 September 2005
Japanese driver Takuma Sato said here on Friday that he still hopes to be racing in Formula One in 2006 after being dropped by BAR-Honda for next season. BAR confirmed earlier this week that Briton Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello will be their race drivers for 2006 and that Sato would have to drop down to a third driver or leave the team.