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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
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
Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly said on Saturday that a spat with coach Greg Chappell should stay between the two men and should not be allowed to drag down the team ahead of a busy international schedule. The coach-captain spat worsened on Friday when Chappell reportedly said in an e-mail sent to the Indian cricket board that he believed Ganguly was no longer fit to lead the side.
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/ 24 September 2005
A back problem which resurfaced during training has forced Tim Henman to pull out of next week’s 000 Thailand Open, the British number one confirmed on his website. Henman had been due to make his first appearance on court since losing in the first round of the US Open last month to Fernando Vedasco of Spain, a match where he suffered with a stiff back.
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/ 24 September 2005
Botswana wildlife officers, armed with rifles, have begun to patrol the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in their latest attempt to drive Bushmen out of their homes, Survival International reported on Friday. Spokesperson Miriam Ross said the officers had harassed and threatened the Bushmen.
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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.
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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
Hurricane Rita hurled its full fury at Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, as the storm’s potent eyewall ripped ashore, lashing coastlines with a terrifying barrage of near 200kph winds and walls of driving rain. Rita smashed into a coastline bristling with vital oil and chemical installations after its outer bands dumped fresh floods on New Orleans.
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/ 24 September 2005
South Africa’s civil society groups are demanding a bigger role in the national self-assessment to be conducted under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). APRM is the brainchild of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an initiative that seeks to attract more foreign investment to the continent by improving the management of African states.
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/ 24 September 2005
Planning inspectors are being asked to resolve a dispute over the site of a statue honouring South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela in London’s Trafalgar Square. The Greater London Authority, on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Statue Fund, wanted the 2,8m bronze statue to stand on the north terrace of the British capital’s most popular piazza.