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/ 26 January 2005
”Just five survivors remain today from the three Soviet divisions that liberated Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. I am the youngest — I was only 19 when the war ended. But the events of 60 years ago are as fresh in my memory as if they happened yesterday.” Yakov Vinnichenko took part in the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27 1945. He reflects.
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/ 26 January 2005
World leaders will gather at Auschwitz in southern Poland tomorrow for the biggest ever commemoration of the darkest episode of Europe’s 20th century, the industrial murder at the camp of up to 1,5-million people, mainly Jews, by Nazi Germany.
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/ 26 January 2005
Detectives hunting the Sicilian mafia king Bernardo Provenzano, who has been on the run for 41 years, on Tuesday arrested 46 people in an effort to break up the network that has supported him. More than 1 000 police were involved in scores of dawn raids across Sicily.
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/ 26 January 2005
Ivorian opposition leader Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday called on the United Nations to organise general elections scheduled for October in the divided West African country. Ouattara said he made the proposal during talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is acting as the African Union’s chief mediator in the Ivorian conflict.
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/ 26 January 2005
About 300 people took part on Wednesday in a second day of protest in Swaziland, heeding a call by trade unions pushing for democratic reforms in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. The protesters marched through the streets of Manzini, Swaziland’s economic capital, closely watched by the police, who surrounded the crowd.
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/ 26 January 2005
The Zimbabwean government has warned the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) not to undertake a mission to Zimbabwe on the same terms as its previous visit. At the end of last year, a Cosatu delegation was summarily ordered out of Zimbabwe. ”If they try to do what they did last time [at the end of last year], they should be prepared to face the consequences,” Minister of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi said.
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/ 26 January 2005
In contrast to most other economists, Standard Bank expects the rand to firm to an average of R5,77 per dollar this year from R6,45 last year, according to Standard Bank group economist Goolam Ballim. The strong rand and strong consumer demand will put only minor pressure on the current account.
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/ 26 January 2005
A prolonged drought in Rwanda and Tanzania has significantly lowered water levels on Lake Victoria, affecting hydropower generation in Uganda, the Ugandan minister of energy said on Tuesday. As a result, Energy Minister Syda Bumba said, load shedding had been increased across the country.
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/ 26 January 2005
BMW has announced that Wolfgang Stadler will succeed Ian Robertson as managing director of BMW South Africa on February 1 2005. As reported late last year, Robertson will be leaving South Africa to assume the post of chairperson and CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, in Goodwood in the United Kingdom.
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/ 26 January 2005
China has ordered education authorities and schools across the country to ban beauty contests in schools, state media reported on Tuesday. "The ministry of education explicitly opposes holding beauty contests in primary and high schools," a ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.