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/ 16 September 2005
A suicide car bomber struck worshippers leaving a Shi’ite mosque in a northern Iraqi city on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 21 others. Twelve other people were killed as the Sunni-dominated insurgency pressed its ”all-out war” against the government and majority Shi’ite population.
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/ 16 September 2005
Thousands of Palestinians broke through Egyptian and Palestinian Authority lines on the Gaza border on Friday, pouring into Egypt in defiance of government attempts to secure the frontier. It was the second afternoon in a row when crowd power overwhelmed the measures imposed in the morning to restore order on the Gaza-Egypt border.
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/ 16 September 2005
Gabon’s National Communication Council (CNC) has warned the bosses of 22 private newspapers and radio stations to stop doubling up jobs incompatible with their public duties, a CNC statement said. The CNC on Thursday quoted the code that regulates the media in the oil-rich Central African nation.
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/ 16 September 2005
Knowing is one thing, but doing is another, as Aussie Mark Hensby discovered in his World Match Play Championship quarterfinal clash with Retief Goosen in Wentworth on Friday. The 38-year-old had admitted before his 8.30am tee time that he had his work cut out for him against the world number five.
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/ 16 September 2005
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee on Friday announced that it will send a strong contingent of approximately 252 athletes to the Commonwealth Games in Australia next year. As a multisports event, the Commonwealth Games rank second only to the Summer Olympics.
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/ 16 September 2005
As with our sports teams, we expect our artists to practise excellence while we put up with the profound incompetence for the practitioners of those who govern these respective areas, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 16 September 2005
Mick Jagger tells Simon Hattenstone about the names he got called in school, how he is struggling to put on weight — and being great in bed.
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/ 16 September 2005
Sudan’s former southern rebels threatened on Friday to seek third-party arbitration in their dispute with the ruling party over the line-up of their much-delayed national unity government. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and the ruling National Congress Party have been locked in acrimonious talks.
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/ 16 September 2005
A prisoner serving 10 years for fraud wrote to a bank from his jail cell in South Africa’s North West province, requesting R10-million be transferred into an investment account he wished to open. He included a cheque dated 1995 from a company in his correspondence with a branch of a bank in Magopane.
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/ 16 September 2005
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has accused the African National Congress of trying to force taxpayers to service the party’s debt, using floor-crossing to maximise the amount of money it will receive. The amount of public money given to political parties is to increase, based on the number of MPs parties have in Parliament.