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/ 19 September 2005
A new English-language daily called Nova hit Johannesburg newsstands on Monday, targeting ”professionals on the move” who are confident in South Africa’s multiracial future. Nova is hoping to reach a mix of Afrikaans and English speakers as well as the upcoming black middle-class.
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/ 19 September 2005
Russian newspapers celebrated on Monday the career of pioneering editor Yegor Yakovlev before and after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, following his death from heart failure. Yakovlev, a journalist and author of several books, died in a Moscow hospital on Sunday, aged 76.
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/ 19 September 2005
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims descended on the holy city of Karbala on Monday amid tight security following a spate of bomb attacks against the country’s majority population. Shi’ite Muslims are commemorating the birth of Imam Mehdi, their 12th and last imam who disappeared more than 11 centuries ago.
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/ 19 September 2005
An explosive device detonated on Monday in the mail room at the British embassy in Zagreb, injuring one person slightly, the embassy said. An embassy spokesperson in the Croatian capital said the device, which Britain’s Sky News channel described as a letter bomb, exploded at 7.30am local time.
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/ 19 September 2005
An international criminal network operating a domain-name scam is systematically targeting South African businesses, according to an IT law firm. Companies receive a telephone call from the United Kingdom telling them that an undisclosed third party is about to register their domain names.
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/ 19 September 2005
World oil prices rose on Monday on supply concerns as a new tropical storm threatened crude production in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) looked set to maintain its current oil-production quota.
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/ 19 September 2005
The JSE continued to forge to record highs on Monday, with a weaker rand and surging gold price boosting heavyweight diversified resources and gold counters. The rest of the market lost ground, however. By 12.01pm, the all-share index was up 0,17% at 16 401,08, having reached a record 16 453,74 in opening trade.
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/ 19 September 2005
New Zealander Michael Campbell picked up a million-pound jackpot by beating Ireland’s Paul McGinley two and one in the World Match Play Championship on Sunday and immediately revealed that the money didn’t matter. ”We play for the honour of being part of history,” said the 36-year-old Kiwi.
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/ 19 September 2005
The West Indies have replaced South Africa as the opposition for an annual cricket match against the prime minister’s XI at Manuka Oval in Canberra, Australia. The match was originally scheduled to feature an invitational side against South Africa on January 27.
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/ 19 September 2005
After 35 years in the safekeeping of a United States war veteran, the diary of a Vietnamese army doctor has hit bookstores in Vietnam and become an instant bestseller with its unusually personal take on war. A warts and all portrayal of the horrors of war or of intrigues in the trenches it is not.