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”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.
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/ 13 September 2005
Jonny Wilkinson will likely miss England’s autumn Tests against Australia, New Zealand and Samoa after having his appendix removed. The Newcastle flyhalf had the operation on Friday and will be sidelined for up to six weeks. ”I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals,” Newcastle’s director of rugby said.
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/ 13 September 2005
Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez believes his team have finally put behind them the distractions of winning the Champions League last season and will be on song against Real Betis on Tuesday. Benitez, and the rest of his Spanish contingent among the Reds squad, returned to their native Spain on Monday.
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/ 13 September 2005
A day after opening its ,5-billion Hong Kong theme park, Disney was on Tuesday already facing a lawsuit from a disgruntled visitor. Hung Wah-fung (45) says the queues were so long when he visited with his wife and two sons on a rehearsal day for the park on September 4 that he was unable to get on some of the rides.
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/ 13 September 2005
Xiong Xianghui, a former assistant to Chinese premier Zhou Enlai who was involved in the rapprochement between Beijing and Washington in the early 1970s, has died of lung cancer, state media reported on Tuesday. He was 86. An official funeral was to be held at Babaoshan Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery in Beijing.
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/ 13 September 2005
Feisty Philippine lawyer Haydee Yorac, who led the recovery of more than -million of ill-gotten wealth of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, died on Tuesday in the United States due to a lingering illness. Yorac (64) died in Chicago, Illinois, while being treated for ovarian cancer.
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/ 13 September 2005
Sheriff’s deputies have found 11 children locked in cages less than 1m high inside a home in Ohio, United States, but a couple deny they abused or neglected the children. A judge on Monday put the children — who range in age from one to 14 and who have various disabilities, including autism — in foster homes.