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/ 2 September 2005
Israel has frozen a controversial project to link its largest West Bank settlement to annexed east Jerusalem, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. The plans to build 3 500 new housing units near Maale Adumim defied the Middle East road-map peace plan.
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/ 2 September 2005
A team of South Korean scientists said on Friday that they had developed a new technology that could open the way to make new devices that could replace current silicon-based semiconductors. The team led by Kim Hyun-Tak of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said they had successfully manufactured what is known as a ”Mott insulator.”
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/ 2 September 2005
The United Nations atomic watchdog was on Friday finalising a report expected to say that Iran has failed to suspend nuclear fuel work and which could trigger UN Security Council sanctions over fears Tehran is developing nuclear weapons, diplomats said. ”As far as we know, they have not suspended [nuclear fuel work],” a diplomat said.
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/ 2 September 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange’s (JSE) equity market had not resumed trade at noon on Friday after trade was halted about half an hour earlier. JSE deputy CEO Nicky Newton-King said trade was suspended after the JSE became aware that many of its members were receiving delayed messages.
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/ 2 September 2005
Fourteen people died and 15 were missing on Friday after Typhoon Talim’s whipping rain and winds walloped China’s east coast and Taiwan, causing widespread damage. Meanwhile, an extremely strong typhoon is churning towards Japan and is on course to hit the nation’s main southern island next week.
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/ 2 September 2005
A Soweto man died after setting fire to his Kliptown, Soweto, home, police reported on Friday. The man had locked himself and his family locked in the house, spokesperson Captain Mbazima Shiburi said. The man’s wife, who managed to escape with minor burns, told police her 44-year-old husband had been drunk.
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/ 2 September 2005
Credit card payments by Camp’s Bay businessman Andrew Stofberg, allegedly for child pornography, formed part of an international investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday.
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/ 2 September 2005
Five people have been questioned for allegedly shooting footage for a pornographic film inside a cable car at the World Exposition, a showcase of technology under way in Japan, police said on Friday. The five suspects, who include an actress, could get up to 30 days in jail or a fine of up to 10 000 yen () for indecent exposure, police said.
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/ 2 September 2005
Machinists at Boeing voted overwhelmingly to strike, rejecting a three-year contract proposal their leaders had deemed ”insulting”. The strike by more than 18 000 assembly workers at 12.01am local time on Friday means Boeing will stop building commercial airplanes, and comes at a time when new orders had picked up in recent months.
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/ 2 September 2005
A soccer referee who shot and killed a coach last year will effectively spend four years in prison, media reports said on Friday. The Grahamstown High Court sentenced Ncedisile Zakhe (26) on Thursday to six years in prison for culpable homicide. Zakhe shot dead Kenton-on-Sea coach Michael Sizani on July 24 last year.