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/ 10 September 2005
For decades they have been an invaluable source of nutrition for London’s homeless. But now, mobile soup kitchens are attracting new customers — those who are not poor and needy but just too lazy to cook. The mobile soup kitchens are increasingly being seen as a free, convenient catering service.
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/ 10 September 2005
Ophelia regained hurricane strength on a course expected to swing toward the Atlantic Coast, and forecasters urged residents from northern Florida to the Carolinas to keep close watch on its path over the next few days. The category-one storm had sustained winds of 121kph on Friday night.
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/ 10 September 2005
Next year, residents of Beijing will be able to again enjoy their centuries-old custom of setting off fireworks during the Chinese Lunar New Year, a news report said. Beijing’s municipal legislature on Friday lifted a 12-year ban on fireworks during the Chinese Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival, in the Chinese capital.
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/ 10 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s central bank chief on Friday held eleventh-hour meetings with International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials to lobby support against Harare’s possible expulsion for debt arrears, state radio said. Gono was to meet the full IMF board of directors on Friday evening, the radio report said.
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/ 10 September 2005
Traded illegally, offered as exotic gifts to rich sheikhs or exploited to lure tourists: great apes are badly exposed by a legal system designed to protect them but too often blatantly ignored, according to experts attending an international conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on saving primates from extinction.
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/ 10 September 2005
Incumbent Hosni Mubarak has swept to victory in Egypt’s first contested presidential poll, with almost 90% of the vote, but with less than one-quarter of voters turning out and opponents charging the results were rigged. Official results gave the 77-year-old leader a whopping 88,5% of the vote in Wednesday’s election.
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/ 10 September 2005
The Papua New Guinea government has yet to receive reports of any damage from a massive undersea earthquake on Friday but cannot yet rule out loss of life in remote outlying villages, an official said on Saturday. The magnitude-7,3 earthquake was centred 96km under the seabed in the island province of New Ireland.
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/ 10 September 2005
Gauteng authorities are considering recruiting immigrants into the police to improve policing in migrant communities, provincial security minister Firoz Cachalia said on Friday. A group of Gauteng police officers was recently shown allegedly taking bribes from illegal immigrants on a television programme.
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/ 10 September 2005
Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that all humanity needs to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, President Thabo Mbeki wrote in his weekly newsletter on Friday. He quoted reports saying poorer citizens of New Orleans were more vulnerable to the effects of Katrina than their wealthier compatriots.
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/ 10 September 2005
The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs is disappointed at elements in the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) South Africa who seem to cling to false assumptions about land reform, the department said on Friday. The department’s comment followed a two-day TAU SA conference in Pretoria.