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/ 1 September 2005
Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who campaigned against nuclear arms and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died, his spokesperson said Thursday. He was 96. Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the group he founded to help rid the world of atomic arms, received the prestigious prize in 1995.
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/ 1 September 2005
A Zimbabwe court has cleared a journalist from the banned Daily News for working without accreditation in a test case likely to affect dozens of other journalists, the reporter said on Thursday. Kelvin Jakachira had been charged under the country’s press laws of working for the paper in 2003 without a licence.
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/ 1 September 2005
Pakistan plans to send a delegation to Israel following historic talks on Thursday between their foreign ministers, but it still does not recognise the Jewish state, President General Pervez Musharraf said. Musharraf said the talks held in Istanbul, Turkey, were ”the first formal contact between our two countries”.
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/ 1 September 2005
Techno lust readings are likely to go off the scale as the most important gadget since the iPod launches in South Africa on September 3. Sony’s PlayStation Portable brings you games, movies and music, and will display photos. Yes, the ”C” word may have finally come of age: but convergence isn’t the first thing you think of when you see the PSP. That honour goes to the aesthetics.
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/ 1 September 2005
A society of moral dwarves I am amazed at the apparent weaknesses of the world’s only superpower. I always thought that, since the United States can deploy hundreds of thousands of troops in far-flung corners of the globe within days, it would at least be able to deal with a disaster at home. Through the […]
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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.