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/ 23 September 2005
Members of Ethiopia’s Jewish community in Addis Ababa complained on Friday that police had prevented them from continuing a hunger strike to press their demand that they be taken to Israel. Members of the Bete Israel community, the so-called Falashas or Ethiopian Jews, had been on hunger strike for three days.
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/ 23 September 2005
Authorities in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland said on Friday they have arrested a senior al-Qaeda operative allegedly in the region to organise attacks on local leaders and foreigners. The operative was arrested along with two other al-Qaeda members after an overnight shootout in the capital, Hargeisa.
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/ 23 September 2005
JM Coetzee’s <i>Slow Man</i> clearly exhibits a greater degree of moral symmetry than is typically the case with the author, writes Derek Hook.
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/ 23 September 2005
Interior allusions An ethnic sprinkle of babies sit in a cordoned-off clump in the centre of Franchise. They are perfectly behaved kiddies, not a squawk or dribble out of line, but like the sedated inmates of an old-age home they make you feel ill at ease (image right). Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s cute and quizzical cast of […]
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/ 23 September 2005
Something felt wrong. My car raced through Kabul, a strained city normally clogged with people, choked with dust and filled with a cacophony of honking car horns and calls to prayer. But at lunchtime last Sunday — a working day in Afghanistan — we whizzed through deserted streets, past shuttered shops and ghostly bazaars.
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/ 23 September 2005
Indonesia’s 15-year-old racer Doni Tata Pradita said on Friday his goal was to climb to the number-one ranking in the 125cc class of the World Championships. Doni, who rides the Yamaha TZ 125, is making his first ever appearance in the championship series as a wild card entrant at the Malaysian Motocycle Grand Prix which begins here on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2005
Listing the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) instead of ”de-privatising” 20% could have promoted broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE), the Democratic Alliance said on Friday. ”This would have broadened the ownership of one of South Africa’s most successful parastatals,” said the DA.
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/ 23 September 2005
About 30 animators and 250 crew worked for two years to complete <i>Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit</i>, now in the running for an Oscar.
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/ 23 September 2005
Should new music be accessible? For American minimalist composer Philip Glass, the answer is clearly yes, Kirsty Dawes reports.
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/ 23 September 2005
<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> In the arena of experimentation and innovation, Goldfrapp glitter. Composed and arranged with the use of electronic equipment, the resulting sound is both fresh and original — and is equally appealing when played live by a five-piece outfit, writes Kelly Fletcher.