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/ 22 September 2005
At least 64 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced after powerful storms left a trail of devastation across the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Wednesday. The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh bore the brunt of the storms, which killed 58 people in the region.
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/ 22 September 2005
Social crimes, which are on the increase, are often committed behind closed doors and difficult to police, according to Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Addressing a Business against Crime dinner, he said combined efforts by government ministries have increased the number of arrests and improved investigations.
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/ 22 September 2005
A United States airliner with 146 people on board made a dramatic but safe emergency landing on Wednesday amid a hail of sparks and smoke after its nose wheels jammed wildly out of alignment. Sparks, flames and a pall of thick smoke erupted from the tyres as they scraped along the tarmac.
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/ 22 September 2005
South Africa needed more black accountants, President Thabo Mbeki told the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) on Wednesday evening. Mbeki was speaking at a dinner marking Saica’s 25th anniversary. ”I think we will agree that we should mobilise more resources” to help train black accountants, Mbeki said.
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/ 22 September 2005
Hundreds of police officers and civilians marched in Basra on Wednesday denouncing ”British aggression” in the raid to free the two undercover soldiers arrested by Iraqi police on Monday. The protesters, some carrying handguns and AK-47s, waved banners calling for the two men be tried as terrorists.
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/ 22 September 2005
Tens of thousands of people along the United States Gulf Coast grabbed their most prized possessions, boarded up their homes and fled on Wednesday in the face of the onslaught from Hurricane Rita, a category-five storm that could rival Hurricane Katrina in intensity when it makes landfall this weekend.
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/ 22 September 2005
Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to â,¬1Â 000 (R7Â 700) a month — almost the minimum wage — to stop work for a year and have a third child under a government scheme to boost the birth rate, already among the highest in Europe.
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/ 21 September 2005
Capital gains tax (CGT) will have been in effect for four years next month, and people are starting to feel the effects of the tax on their profits. ”In the first few years asset prices had not risen that much, but now we are seeing a boom in both the property market and the share market and the capital gains are much higher,” says Tony Barrett, regional manager at BJM Private Client Services.
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/ 21 September 2005
Nearly 3Â 500 fishermen were missing in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday as more than 200 fishing trawlers capsized in turbulent waves after setting sail from the southern Bangladesh coast three days ago, officials said.