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/ 1 September 2005
95 800 cheated voters We all remember the long queues during our first democratic elections in 1994. Queues in the rural areas wrapping themselves along winding footpaths, queues in cities snaking along sidewalks. People of all races, all ages, rich and poor mingled together; their voices about to be heard, a truly democratic country for […]
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/ 1 September 2005
Michael Sheard, who played Adolf Hitler five times in an acting career that also saw him strangled by Darth Vader in a Star Wars sequel, died on Wednesday at the age of 65, his agent said. Shard, a native of Scotland, died near his home on the Isle of Wight, in the south of England.
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/ 1 September 2005
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that millions of Cambodians cooking with charcoal were to blame for using the bulk of the country’s wood and was a far greater factor in the nation’s massive deforestation problem than illegal logging.
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/ 1 September 2005
Malaysians rushed to pay up their traffic fines on Thursday after the police offered a 50% discount on 3,4-million unpaid summonses as part of efforts to clear a huge backlog. Police reported a good response to the discount, which started on Thursday and lasts until September 22.
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/ 1 September 2005
He is Russia’s most wanted man, with tens of thousands of soldiers on his trail, but a year after masterminding the Beslan massacre, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev remains at large, openly mocking the Kremlin. Meanwhile, hundreds of Beslan residents have signed a petition requesting political asylum abroad.
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/ 1 September 2005
Australian nightclub doorman Allan Teli has withdrawn a complaint about racism against Springbok captain John Smit, South African Rugby said on Thursday. Teli on Sunday laid a formal complaint against Smit, accusing the Springbok captain of having used a racist slur against him in a Sydney bar.
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/ 1 September 2005
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund donated R1-million on Thursday to the Children’s Hospital Trust for the refurbishment of the Red Cross War Memorial
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/ 1 September 2005
Researchers have found long-awaited proof that a drug derived from a Chinese plant fights severe malaria far more effectively than older treatments do — but this breakthrough may not help children in Africa, where severe malaria progresses differently than it does in Asia.
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/ 1 September 2005
South Korea has expressed concern about a service offered by United States internet search company Google that shows satellite photos of sensitive facilities in the country, the president’s office said on Thursday. ”As [Google’s] satellite photos are beyond our control, we are in discussion with US authorities,” said presidential spokesperson Kim Man-Soo.
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/ 1 September 2005
They drink half as much red wine as they used to, barely anyone wears a beret, the bidet has been banished from their bathrooms … and now they’ve stopped making Gauloises. Le pays, as the French do not say, is going to les chiens. The Franco-Spanish cigarette firm Altadis confirmed on Wednesday that it was closing down the last factory in France still turning out its near-mythical dark tobacco brands.