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/ 13 September 2005
Torn by conflicting desires to help and with desperate needs at home, perennial aid recipients in Africa have confronted a blizzard of emotions in their response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the wealthy United States. At least five African nations, three of them in the highly undeveloped and disaster prone sub-Saharan Africa, have contributed money to relief efforts.
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/ 13 September 2005
United Nations staff have returned to their offices in Somalia’s temporary seat of government in Jowhar after Somali authorities locked them out of the UN Children’s Fund compound, a UN official in Nairobi confirmed on Tuesday. This follows the relocation of 13 staff on September 8 owing to security concerns in the area.
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/ 13 September 2005
Last-minute talks to avert a strike at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) are unlikely to succeed, a staff representative said on Tuesday. The Commission Staff Association said about 300 commissioners are ”90% certain” to strike from Wednesday.
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/ 13 September 2005
Efforts are under way to improve the sewage system in Delmas in a bid to prevent a repeat of the recent typhoid outbreak, Mpumalanga authorities said on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance said a party councillor warned the Delmas municipality a few years ago that the municipality should be connected to Rand Water to allow for safe water.
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/ 13 September 2005
Clarence ”Gatemouth” Brown, the famed Louisiana-based singer and guitarist known for Cajun music, blues and jazz, has died in Texas after leaving New Orleans to avoid the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. The Grammy Award-winner died on Saturday aged 81, according to media reports.
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/ 13 September 2005
Angela Merkel is bidding to become the first woman, and the first citizen of the former communist East, to lead a modern, reunified Germany. Her rise from being an obscure East Berlin physicist to leading Germany’s conservatives, her pledge for economic reform and her no-nonsense dress sense have led to comparisons with Margaret Thatcher.
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/ 13 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s young batsmen defied India in the first session of the first Test at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Tuesday, making 75 for two. Brendan Taylor went for 13 and Hamilton Mazakadsa for 14, both victims of Zaheer Khan, who bowled with venom and pace. He ended the session with 2-26.
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/ 13 September 2005
Villarreal goalkeeper Sebastian Viera was keeping remarkably calm on Tuesday despite the imminent arrival of the Manchester United artillery in the shape of Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Manchester United return to the Mediterranean coast for the first time since they triumphed in the 1999 Champions League and now face Villarreal in a group D match on Wednesday.
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/ 13 September 2005
A Somali warlord, whose fighters over the weekend seized control of the United Nations premises in the country’s disputed capital of Jowhar, on Tuesday handed back offices to the organisation’s local staff. Mohamed Omar Habeb, who in June offered the Somali transitional leadership refuge in Jowhar, about 90km north of Mogadishu, returned the keys of the UN Children’s Fund offices to the staff.
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/ 13 September 2005
For more than half a century, historians have wondered what the Nazis would have done had they won World War II. Now the matter can be settled. A report, unread for 65 years, reveals the Nazis’ top priority once they had destroyed the allies, exterminated the Jews and occupied Europe. They were going to build a big, flash nightspot in Berlin.