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/ 5 September 2005
The National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) gained almost 500 new members in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend, the party said on Monday. ”We can’t cope with the requests of people asking for Nadeco membership cards,” said Reverend Hawu Mbatha, who last week crossed to Nadeco from the African Christian Democratic Party.
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/ 5 September 2005
Bafana Bafana are out of the 2006 World Cup finals. The stark, irreversible news was received almost disbelievingly by 46-million South Africans on Sunday evening after it was confirmed that Ghana had beaten Uganda 2-0 in Kumasi and will almost certainly go through to Germany from group B as one of Africa’s five participants.
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/ 5 September 2005
The death toll from Japanese encephalitis rose to 460 in a northern Indian state after 28 more people died overnight from an outbreak of the mosquito-born disease, officials said on Monday. More than 500 patients, mostly children, were being treated in government hospitals across Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and among its poorest.
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/ 5 September 2005
One person was killed and at least six injured as a powerful typhoon heading on Monday toward Japan’s mainland lashed Tokyo with torrential rains, flooded homes and cut off power to thousands. A 61-year-old man was found dead late on Sunday on a flooded road in Saitama outside Tokyo after he rushed to help his son whose car was stuck.
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/ 5 September 2005
A fire early on Sunday which killed 15 people, including two children, was almost certainly the result of arson, according to police investigating the third major blaze in the Paris region in little over a week. A police spokesperson said three local teenage girls had been remanded in custody, suspected of deliberately setting letterboxes alight
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/ 5 September 2005
Robyn Rafferty had wanted to pick up her pets and jewellery from her wrecked home before heading off to start a new life with her family in Nashville, Tennessee. But as thousands of her fellow citizens in New Orleans are discovering, suddenly becoming an evacuee can be a frightening and painful experience.
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/ 5 September 2005
The Japanese election campaign may have spawned an ingenious new marketing tactic: take a relatively unknown product, have it berated in public by an unpopular politician, and watch sales soar. Sales of the French cheese Mimolette have taken off since the former prime minister, Yoshiro Mori urned his nose up at it in a bizarre television interview.
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/ 5 September 2005
The United States chief justice, William Rehnquist, whose deeply conservative views helped to reshape the country’s supreme court during the past three decades, has died, leaving President George Bush with a historic opportunity to make his mark on the highest court.
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/ 5 September 2005
The only brewery in the Palestinian territories escaped an attack on Sunday by a mob that razed a dozen homes over an alleged affair between a Christian man whose family owns the beer factory and a Muslim woman from a neighbouring village who was then murdered by her own family.
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/ 5 September 2005
Somali pirates have lowered their ransom demand and are ready to free 47 Taiwanese, Chinese, Indonesia, Filipino and Vietnamese crew on three Taiwan fishing boats as soon as the ransom has been paid. The three Taiwan tuna trawlers were seized by Somali pirates at the port of Kismayo on August 16 as they were picking up a fishing licence.