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/ 22 September 2005
Monstrous Hurricane Rita, one of the deadliest storms ever recorded, sent millions fleeing, threatened vital oil production and cast fear far and wide as it ripped across the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday whipping up winds of 275 kilometres an hour.
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/ 22 September 2005
Phil Mickelson dearly wants a victory at the Presidents Cup after woeful showings at team events the past two years, but do not expect a repeat pairing with Tiger Woods to be the solution. Mickelson entered Thursday’s start of the biennial team matches against the Internationals having gone 0-5 at the 2003 Presidents Cup and 1-3 at the 2004 Ryder Cup, 0-2 with Woods in a duo that took the ‘fun’ out of dysfunctional.
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/ 22 September 2005
A first draft of Beatles song I’m Only Sleeping leads a flurry of pop memorabilia up for grabs at Christie’s in London next week, the auction house said on Thursday. Christie’s is auctioning more than 230 lots of rare recordings, instruments and clothes on Wednesday, with John Lennon’s draft lyrics for I’m Only Sleeping expected to fetch in excess of £200 000.
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/ 22 September 2005
Trade union Solidarity on Thursday asked the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration to appoint a mediator to resolve its dispute with Nationwide Airlines. ”In view of the public disruption that was caused by the SAA strike earlier this year, everything possible should be done to avert a strike,” said spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans.
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/ 22 September 2005
United States health officials are considering an unprecedented plan to stock homes with antidote kits in the event of a bio-terror attack, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday. The feasibility of home antidote kits could be tested in the city of Seattle in the Pacific state of Washington, said Von Roebuck of the CDC.
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/ 22 September 2005
The owner of the first South African commercial farm to be earmarked for expropriation said on Thursday he intends contesting the move. ”I do not recognise the [restitution] claim on my land and cannot be forced to sell at the government’s price,” farmer Hannes Visser said.
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/ 22 September 2005
Eleven African countries organising the next summit on the troubled Great Lakes region set for December will meet in Angola next week to prepare a pact on border security, a United Nations official said on Thursday. The meeting will also discuss protecting displaced people and setting up a regional certification scheme for natural resources so that they are not used to finance wars.
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/ 22 September 2005
Sudan’s first post-war national unity government was sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony attended by President Omar al-Beshir, eight months after a peace deal that ended Africa’s longest-running conflict. But the new Cabinet was swiftly dismissed by the opposition as falling well short of a truly broad-based government.
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/ 22 September 2005
A police report on a street scuffle involving Arthur de Villepin, son of France’s aristocratic Prime Minister Dominique, was mysteriously removed from the station’s files the day after the incident. Media reports said De Villepin Jr (17) and friends squared up with another group of youths on Saturday night on the Boulevard Emile-Augier, in the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement.
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/ 22 September 2005
Maria Sharapova piled on the first seven games before Shahar Peer could find her feet but then had to struggle to finally scrape a 6-0, 4-6, 6-2 win Thursday in her opening match at the China Open. Sharapova lifted the first five games against her fellow 18-year-old ranked 48th, in just 18 minutes.