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/ 14 September 2005
Another person has died as a result of the typhoid outbreak in Delmas in Mpumalanga, government officials said on Wednesday. Two people have so far died and 51 cases of typhoid have been confirmed. The number of the people presenting symptoms of typhoid had risen to 408 by 1pm on Wednesday.
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/ 14 September 2005
Metrorail will investigate the cause of a fire that on Wednesday burnt down four train coaches and one motor coach at Daveyton station on the East Rand. Police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the train was set on fire by angry commuters because it had been late.
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/ 14 September 2005
African countries are making progress in primary schooling for boys and girls alike — but other targets are unlikely to be attained, according to a United Nations report on Wednesday. The UN Economic Commission for Africa report details how African countries are faring in meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
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/ 14 September 2005
Eritrea on Wednesday denounced as ”toothless, meaningless [and] pathetic” the latest United Nations Security Council resolution on its festering border tensions with neighbouring Ethiopia. On Tuesday in New York, the Security Council voted unanimously to urge the nations to implement a 2002 boundary ruling.
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/ 14 September 2005
Malawi’s police have jailed a former veteran opposition figure on charges of insulting President Bingu wa Mutharika, who was allegedly called a ”drunk” and a ”brute”, the man’s lawyer said on Wednesday. ”Gwanda Chakuamba surrendered himself to police this morning,” lawyer Viva Nyimba said.
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/ 14 September 2005
Libya is ready to restore diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia that were severed after Riyadh accused Tripoli of a plot to assassinate King Abdullah, then crown prince of the oil-rich kingdom. Last month, five Libyans were pardoned by Abdullah shortly after he became monarch on the death of his half-brother King Fahd.
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/ 14 September 2005
Marine biologists on Wednesday decided to blow up the skull of a beached whale at Mnandi beach along False Bay after numerous attempts to refloat it failed. A Marine and Coastal Management spokesperson said the whale, 10m long and weighing close to 11 tonnes, had beached after apparently making a navigational error.
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/ 14 September 2005
United States President George Bush called on Wednesday for the United Nations to be "free of corruption" and to step up the fight against terrorism four years after the September 11 attacks. Bush appealed to world leaders gathered in New York for greater cooperation on Iraq, freer trade and winning the war on terrorism.
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/ 14 September 2005
Incitement to terrorism is to be banned worldwide under a United Nations Security Council resolution unanimously adopted on Wednesday and promoted by Britain in the wake of the London bombings. Its adoption came against the backdrop of this week’s World Summit at UN headquarters.
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/ 14 September 2005
The United Nations rolled out the red carpet on Wednesday for more than 170 leaders attending the world’s largest summit one day after approving a watered-down blueprint to restructure the embattled world body on its 60th anniversary. The world leaders will be tasked with endorsing a 35-page UN reform document.