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A frustrated India toiled all day at Queens Sports Club on the first day of the first Test against Zimbabwe in an unsuccessful bid to rattle through the hosts batting. Zimbabwe ended the day on 265-7, one of their best performances in Test cricket for some time, with captain Tatenda Taibu unbeaten on 61 — his eighth half century in Tests.
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/ 14 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s main opposition is to decide this week whether it will boycott elections to a newly created senate to be held later this year, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. But the Movement for Democratic Change, which currently holds 41 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, has already dismissed the upper house as a distraction from Zimbabwe’s mounting economic and political troubles.
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/ 14 September 2005
Diplomats at the United Nations finally reached agreement on Tuesday night on a watered-down document to reform the organisation and tackle poverty just hours before leaders arrived for the start of a world summit. This final draft fell far short of ambitious proposals for an overhaul of the UN which was set out earlier this year by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General.
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/ 14 September 2005
The West African state of Ghana is giving its widow’s mite to the United States following the Hurricane Katrina disaster — a gift of cocoa drinks and chocolate. Ghana, the poor West African country that is the world’s second largest producer of cocoa, said it was donating 000 of cocoa drinks and chocolates to victims of the hurricane.
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/ 14 September 2005
South Africa’s chief rabbi emeritus Cyril Harris succumbed to cancer on Tuesday in Hermanus in the Western Cape, a Jewish Board of Deputies spokesperson said on Tuesday. ”His body will be taken to Jerusalem and buried either on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning,” Zev Krengel said on Tuesday night.
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/ 14 September 2005
The finances of most Eastern Cape municipalities are in such a poor state that they cannot calculate how much they are owed in arrears, media reports said on Wednesday. Local government MEC Sam Kwelita said only two municipalities out of more than 40 had received unqualified audit reports from the auditor-general.
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/ 14 September 2005
AirAsia, Southeast Asia’s pioneering low-cost carrier, said on Wednesday its recent sponsorship deal with Manchester United is already proving its worth in attracting business. "Its already paying off. The trend is there. We are now seeing customers from Europe who have changed their holiday plans to come to Malaysia instead," said Kamarudin Meranun, executive director with AirAsia.
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/ 14 September 2005
With the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector set to experience high growth rates, the implementation of the ICT Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Charter is critical, yet it is currently unclear when the charter will come into operation.
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/ 14 September 2005
Washington is backing a plan to build a 2 400km fence along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan to prevent Islamic insurgents and drug smugglers slipping between the two countries. Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, on Tuesday made the proposal during a 75-minute meeting with the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
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/ 14 September 2005
For the first time, United States President George Bush on Tuesday explicitly took responsibility for shortcomings in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Speaking at a press conference at the White House, Bush said that it had ”exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government”.