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An Indian national on death row in Pakistan convicted as a spy and for setting bombs that killed several people, could get mercy from the victims’ families, Pakistan’s foreign minister said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that the fate of Sarabjit Singh could be decided by the relatives of those killed.
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/ 13 September 2005
A Cabinet minister in Zimbabwe has warned the government may take over white-owned firms in an exercise similar to actions under Harare’s five-year-old land-reform programme, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. ”We might decide to take over these companies just like we did during the land-reform exercise,” the minister said.
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/ 13 September 2005
Britain’s Treasury chief, Gordon Brown, on Tuesday will call on Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) countries to boost oil production and demand coordinated international action to stabilise the world oil market. The price of unleaded petrol in some areas of Britain has nudged past £1 (R11,63) per litre.
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/ 13 September 2005
Health and life insurance group Discovery Holdings on Tuesday announced the conclusion of a strategic black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction that result in new black partners gaining 7% of the group. This will bring Discovery’s total BEE shareholding to just more than 25%.
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/ 13 September 2005
South Africa has been declared free of notifiable avian influenza, says Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza. The disease was discovered in ostriches in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape in July last year. ””This extremely serious threat to the whole poultry industry has thus been curbed,” said Didiza.
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/ 13 September 2005
What future do we want to leave our children? World leaders should answer this when they gather in New York to negotiate United Nations reform proposals and review progress on the Millennium Development Goals. It was no great surprise that the High-Level Panel made critical links between security and development.
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/ 13 September 2005
”The decisions made by world leaders at the UN World Summit this week in New York affect all of us and are a crucial chance for UN reform. As a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, I arrived on Monday ahead of the summit and am very excited to be here,” writes Grace Mukagabiro.
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/ 13 September 2005
The toll of Hurricane Katrina deaths in four American states has risen to 513, after Mississippi announced a further four deaths on Monday. Meanwhile, another storm, Ophelia, inched toward the United States east coast on Monday, prompting authorities to post storm warnings, ready troops and urge residents to leave isolated islands.
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/ 13 September 2005
Australians under voting age woke to a new, unfamiliar experience and older generations were reacquainted with an unsettling feeling: England have won the Ashes. To clarify, England beat Australia for cricket’s most storied international prize late on Monday at The Oval in south London, where the Ashes were created in 1882.
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/ 13 September 2005
"As I walk through the skyscrapers lining the streets of New York City, I feel a very long way from my home in Rwanda and it is a bit surreal to be here. But I know that the decisions made here at the United Nations World Summit this week will have a huge impact on the people in my hometown," writes Grace Mukagabiro.