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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.
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/ 14 September 2005
Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first world leader on Wednesday to sign an international convention on combating nuclear terrorism. A senior Russian official said about 40 countries were expected to accede to the convention on Wednesday alone, the first day of a three-day United Nations summit.
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/ 14 September 2005
Vladimir Volkoff, a Franco-Russian author of espionage novels and non-fiction books famed in France, died overnight at home, his publisher, Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, said on Wednesday. He was 72. Volkoff began his literary career in 1962 after serving as a French secret-service officer.
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/ 14 September 2005
Three senior officials of the collapsed Saambou Bank were granted bail of R50 000 each when they appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday on 13 charges involving about R640-million. They each face 10 charges of fraud, one of theft and two of contravening the Companies Act.
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/ 14 September 2005
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) condemned Telkom on Wednesday for asking police to break up a small picket held on Monday outside Telkom’s head office in Pretoria. In a press statement on Thursday, the FXI said: "Telkom’s attempt to stop the picket by calling on the police to intervene was unjust."
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/ 14 September 2005
Britain’s government was on Wednesday launching a campaign to publicise its new ”gay marriage” law, which will give same-sex couples many of the same rights as married people. The first such partnerships will be sealed just before Christmas, with pop singer Elton John and his partner set to become one of the first ”married” gay couples.
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/ 14 September 2005
More than a dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding 542 in a deadly series of attacks that began with a huge suicide car bombing that targeted labourers assembled to find work for the day. Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility.
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/ 14 September 2005
Visitors to Croatia’s Zagreb zoo can now experience what it feels like to be a caged animal, zoo management announced on Tuesday. People will be able to walk through two cages and feel what it’s like to be held in captivity, as well as learn why humans are "the most dangerous species on the planet".