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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Australian nightclub doorman Allan Teli has withdrawn a complaint about racism against Springbok captain John Smit, South African Rugby said on Thursday.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
More than 1 000 compulsive gamblers have been officially banned from casinos in the Eastern Cape, media reports said on Thursday. Among those banned, is a businessman who claims to have blown more than R30-million at gambling tables in the province.
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/ 1 September 2005
A British man died in a high-speed accident because he allowed his seven-year-old son to steer, a coroner’s inquest ruled. Peter Mourier (50) of Kingshill, encouraged his son David to lean over and steer the car as it traveled at 110kph on a motorway in western Britain on March 4.
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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.
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LETTERS September 16 – 22 2005 An ungenerous critique Rena Singer’s commentary (“Is loveLife making them love life?”, August 19) is thought-provoking and provocative. Healthy public debate about our national response to the HIV/Aids epidemic is important to increasing public understanding of Aids and to improving the public response. In provoking this, Singer’s article makes […]