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Palestinian police on Tuesday blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose law and order after chaotic celebrations of Israel’s pull-out from Gaza, but the overwhelmed forces were unable to halt looting of the area’s prized greenhouses.
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Colombia’s government questioned its own airline security measures and ordered an immediate review after a father in a wheelchair dodged a security check to sneak hand grenades on to a plane and hijacked it along with his son. The father and son finally surrendered five hours after commandeering the Aires airliner on Monday.
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The JSE was weaker just before midday on Tuesday due to profit-taking following Monday’s rally to a record high. As was the case on Monday, futures activity ahead of Thursday’s close-out dominated trade. By 11.54am, the all-share and all-share industrial indices shed 0,67% and 0,61% respectively.
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Huge blasts at a suburban Manila police ammunition dump injured at least 107 people, damaged several buildings and homes and set off security jitters in a capital long wary of possible terror attacks and a coup, officials said. Police ruled out sabotage or terrorism. The explosions were apparently touched off by lightning.
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/ 13 September 2005
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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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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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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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.