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Barcelona got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start on Wednesday with a comfortable 2-0 defeat of Werder Bremen in group C. Wednesday’s other winners included Udinese, Arsenal, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Benfica, and Manchester United drew 0-0 with Villarreal.
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/ 15 September 2005
Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and a 3,3m storm surge. ”If you have not heeded the warning before, let me be clear right now: Ophelia is a dangerous storm,” Governor Mike Easley said.
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/ 15 September 2005
”United States President George Bush and other world leaders have been speaking today, on the first day of the United Nations World Summit, about what the summit has achieved .. The presidents and prime ministers were ushered with police escorts while helicopters flew overhead,” writes Grace Mukagabiro.
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/ 15 September 2005
At least 20 people were killed in a new suicide car bombing in Baghdad on Thursday, one day after up to 150 people died in a series of car bombings, local police said. The dead included at least 15 police officers and five civilians, while another 21 people were injured, the BBC reported.
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/ 15 September 2005
The South African government will not interfere in Transnet’s bid to find a broad-based empowerment partner to buy the parastatal’s 5% stake in the MTN Group, it emerged on Wednesday — a day after Transnet announced it had ended months of talks with Umthunzi Telecoms Consortium.
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/ 15 September 2005
As many as 18 000 people dead. More than -billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That’s not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina’s toll on the Gulf Coast. That’s a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.
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/ 15 September 2005
Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing group Accenture has changed the structure of its South African operations as a pledge of its commitment to the local community and its support of the South African government’s black economic empowerment (BEE) initiative.
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/ 15 September 2005
Fifty-two Western Cape government officials will appear in court on Thursday and Friday, the national and regional departments of social development said in a joint statement on Wednesday. ”The 52 will be appearing in court for allegedly defrauding the social-grant system,” said spokesperson Lakela Kaunda.
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/ 15 September 2005
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday blasted what he called a ”coalition of evil” as he accused powerful countries of using humanitarian intervention to meddle in the affairs of small and weak nations. He was speaking at the summit of world leaders at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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/ 15 September 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has joined several other world leaders in adding his signature to the United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Thursday.