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/ 25 January 2005
The United States envoy to the Middle East, William Burns, is expected to arrive in Jerusalem on Wednesday to discuss an appeal by the new Palestinian leadership for the United States’s support in securing Israeli respect for a ceasefire. Burns is due to meet the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Thursday.
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/ 25 January 2005
The East African state of Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, on Monday launched a plan to fight HIV/Aids which will include the distribution of free anti-retroviral drugs. The new strategy is the fifth anti-Aids campaign launched by the Ethiopian government since 1996.
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/ 25 January 2005
The share price of Mutual & Federal, South Africa’s second-biggest short-term insurer, has climbed 10,4% or R2,35 in the first hour of trading on Tuesday after the company indicated late on Monday that its earnings for the six months ended December are likely to be much higher than those forecast in its last trading update in November.
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/ 25 January 2005
Actress Halle Berry has some tough competition if she wants the dubious honour of dominating the Razzie Awards for the year’s worst performances in the movies. Also nominated was United States President George Bush for worst actor for his unwitting role in the film Fahrenheit 9/11.
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/ 25 January 2005
A love triangle in eastern China ended in tragedy when two young men waded into a freezing river to decide who would win the right to court a young woman, a news report said on Tuesday. As the young women could not decide between her two suitors, they staged a test to see who would be able to endure the icy waters of the Oujiang River in Zhejiang province.
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/ 25 January 2005
Parishioners at St Annes Catholic Church in tiny Harihari, in New Zealand’s South Island, have been told their confessions remain secret despite the fact that a squatter has been living in the roof for years, it was reported on Tuesday. Police were trying to remove the man who was refusing to come down from his hiding place.
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/ 25 January 2005
South African pharmacies have lashed out at Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, saying comments she made about the government meeting the retail pharmacy industry over the controversial dispensing law were misleading.
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/ 25 January 2005
South Africa have an uphill battle if they are to save the fifth Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test against England at Supersport Park, despite a career best six wickets for 81 runs by Andre Nel. At close of play on the fourth day, South Africa had 59 for two in their second innings, and still trailed England by 53 runs.
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/ 25 January 2005
President Viktor Yushchenko moved swiftly on Monday to overhaul the government of Ukraine, putting key allies in position, abolishing the presidential administration inherited from his predecessor, and, most controversially, naming a billionaire populist as the new prime minister.
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/ 25 January 2005
One of the most senior politicians in Iraq has promised a ”radical change” in the country’s security forces after this week’s election and said officers with Ba’athist links would be removed. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (54) heads an alliance of Shia Muslim candidates that is widely expected to win the vote.