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/ 1 February 2005
The high turnout in the Iraqi election has strengthened United States President Bush’s hand at home and abroad, administration officials and the president’s supporters said on Monday. The courage of Iraqi voters was the perfect illustration of the Bush’s ”freedom speech” at last month’s inauguration, Bush supporters said.
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/ 1 February 2005
Botswana’s fight against HIV/Aids will be funded at least until 2009, the Merck Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have pledged. In 2001, each gave -million to be spent over five years, and although there is no actual cut-off date, there are fears that funds will dry up in 2006.
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/ 1 February 2005
Unity Insurance — a new short-term insurance company owned 50,1% by Telesure Investments, the holding company of Auto & General, and 49,9% by a variety of black shareholders — has been launched in South Africa, the company said on Tuesday. Unity aims to bring black-empowered insurance products to the South African market.
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/ 1 February 2005
A state witness in the sex-crimes trial of advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo aroused suspicions from the defence on Tuesday when he appeared to become ”very hot”. This happened while Prinsloo’s advocate, Piet Coetzee, was cross-examining Captain Carel Cornelius in the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 1 February 2005
Ray Charles was a loner with a heroin habit that lasted decades and a voracious carnal appetite. He was also one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Richard Williams wonders whether the new biopic can do his life justice.
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/ 1 February 2005
North Korean leader Kim Jong II will fall in love with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and lead the world to terror kingpin Osama bin Laden’s lair. Meanwhile, he will kidnap a famous movie director and cast Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat in Asia’s own James Bond film.
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/ 1 February 2005
South Africans have already topped the R10-million target the Red Cross set for aid to tsunami-ravaged Indian Ocean countries, the charity said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, an aircraft on a South African mercy flight to tsunami victims in Somalia landed in that country on Tuesday morning after being delayed in Uganda.
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/ 1 February 2005
On the same day that the International Rugby Board confirmed the three host contestants for the 2011 Rugby World Cup — South Africa, New Zealand and Japan — the South African Football Rugby Union was warned that full and final government support for the event is not yet guaranteed.
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/ 1 February 2005
Microsoft chief Bill Gates visits the headquarters of the European Union on Tuesday, at a time when there is still a disagreement with the EU head office over how the software giant should adapt to the landmark ruling against it. Microsoft said it will respect last March’s ruling while its appeal is pending before EU courts.
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/ 1 February 2005
Four hospitals and 60 pharmacies in the north-eastern Spanish region of Catalonia will distribute cannabis to patients suffering from Aids, cancer, multiple sclerosis or chronic pain of nervous origin, local media reported on Tuesday. Patients not responding to conventional treatments will be prescribed capsules containing cannabis powder.