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/ 21 September 2005
Delmas has seen 26 more cases of typhoid in the last 24 hours, Mpumalanga health department spokesperson Mpho Gabashane said on Tuesday evening. ”Ten people have been discharged while 65 are still hospitalised.” Health promotion activities continued in Delmas on Tuesday as authorities waited for the results of tests that might determine the source of the disease that has claimed four lives and made over 500 ill.
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/ 21 September 2005
At least 31 people were killed and about 62 000 left homeless when heavy rains pounded coastal areas of India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, reports said on Wednesday. All the deaths occurred in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state, which bore the brunt of Tuesday’s storms.
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/ 21 September 2005
As thousands of angry Nigerians took to the streets to protest against 30% hikes in fuel price recently, across West Africa some of the world’s poorest were also feeling the pinch, struggling to cope with the record-breaking cost of crude and its knock-on effect on basic goods. Oil prices rocketed from about $40 at the beginning of the year to reach a record high of more than $70 on August 30 this year.
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/ 21 September 2005
Just to start the column in a way that’s out of this world, literally, consider this surreal item that went up for sale on eBay recently. I mean, you couldn’t make up a more bizarre object than a 1950s Soviet Space Monkey’s Flight Pants. (Oh well, as long as they’re thoroughly washed and disinfected …)
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/ 21 September 2005
For many poor residents of Indonesia’s densely populated capital, Jakarta, having chicken on the dinner table is a luxury that seldom comes. Now many are forcing themselves to decline the rare treat of fried or curried chicken amid a widening bird-flu outbreak and lack of public information about the virus.
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/ 21 September 2005
Contact crimes — apart from rape and indecent assault — are down in the financial year 2004/05, according to the South African Police Service. The report, issued on Wednesday, indicates that the murder rate is down to 40,3 per 100 000 of the population.
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/ 21 September 2005
”The last time I suggested someone try online dating, she replied: ”I’m not that desperate, you know.” Mere seconds before, she had been asking that terribly hard question: ‘Where on Earth can I meet a nice man?’ Her distaste at my suggestion surprised me,” writes Goda Ellis.
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/ 21 September 2005
Beneath the elegant art deco facades of the Gansemarkt shopping centre in Hamburg, several hundred people have turned up to hear Angela Merkel. As techno music bursts through the speakers, a woman in a blue trouser suit threads her way to the main stage through a sea of orange banners. A voice booms: ”Here is Germany’s next chancellor, Angela Merkel.”
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/ 21 September 2005
”Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head.” Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to have happened to democracy.
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