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/ 15 September 2005
Opec has cut its estimate for the expected increase in global oil demand this year for the fifth time in a row, with the increase now expected to be 1,7% from the 2004 figure, its monthly report showed on Thursday. Global demand is now forecast to be an average 83,5-million barrels per day.
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/ 15 September 2005
The current government of Côte d’Ivoire should remain in place until elections are held, even if this does not happen by October 31 as planned, South Africa said on Thursday. Regarding the rejection of South Africa’s mediation by the New Forces, Lekota said the country will continue its work until its mandate is withdrawn.
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/ 15 September 2005
One of the Protestant paramilitary groups implicated in three nights of rioting in Belfast called on Tuesday for an end to the violence, the worst Northern Ireland has seen in years. Sixty police officers and at least 10 civilians have been hurt in the clashes, which erupted over a ban on a Protestant parade through Roman Catholic areas of Belfast.
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/ 15 September 2005
An explosion and fire at a fireworks factory on Thursday killed at least 32 people in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, news reports said. The toll was expected to rise as rescue workers continued to remove bodies from the rubble and battle the blaze at the plant and three of its warehouses.
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/ 15 September 2005
Frustrated United States Democrats have their last chance on Thursday after two days of sparring to coax answers from chief justice nominee John Roberts on abortion, privacy and other controversial issues before he heads to likely Senate confirmation.
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/ 15 September 2005
Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland holds parliamentary polls later this month with the hope the exercise will boost its chance of world recognition as a state independent of a nation in chaos. Somaliland will on September 29 conduct its third multiparty elections since 2000, as the rest of the Horn of Africa nation founders in lawlessness despite the creation of a transitional federal government.
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/ 15 September 2005
The fraud trial of three former senior executives at the Eastern Cape Development Corporation has renewed widely held perceptions in the province that Premier Nosimo Balindlela’s government is attempting to purge individuals loyal to former premier Makhenkesi Stofile and provincial African National Congress deputy chairperson Enoch Godongwana.
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/ 15 September 2005
Vehicle-distribution group McCarthy’s chief executive, Brand Pretorius, says the South African motor industry remains fully committed to the government’s taxi-recapitalisation programme and will do whatever is required to ensure its success. However, there are still some grey areas regarding the vehicle-scrapping policy and procedures.
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/ 15 September 2005
Bob Dylan went ”electric” to angry shouts; the Rolling Stones watched Hells Angels stab a man to death at a 1968 free concert; and there was the time rap music came to the Gaza Strip. It started innocently enough. The official Palestinian rally for Gaza’s ”liberation” from Israel was winding down on Wednesday afternoon when a throbbing bass groove shook the ground.
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/ 15 September 2005
An Australian on Thursday admitted trying to hire a hitman to murder a teenage girl who had accused his son of rape. The plan to murder the girl came unstuck when Chouaki Bou-Antoun asked an undercover police officer to carry out the hit. Chouaki Bou-Antoun (50) pleaded guilty in the New South Wales District Court to soliciting the murder of the girl in December 2003.