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/ 19 January 2005
While a decade may seem a substantial amount of time to some, it is all too short for those who are pushing to have the Millennium Development Goals realised. The prospects for achieving the goals appear especially bleak for sub-Saharan Africa, especially Kenya, unless drastic measures are implemented.
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/ 19 January 2005
An own-goal by Djimi Traore handed Championship side Burnley a deserved 1-0 victory over Premiership giants Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup in Burnley on Tuesday. Liverpool fielded an under-strength side and paid the penalty, ending the match with 10 men after Antonio Nunez was sent off shortly before the final whistle.
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/ 19 January 2005
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Indian Ocean nations rose to nearly 220 000 on Wednesday with another 50 000 deaths reported by Indonesia’s health ministry. Indonesia was hardest hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with 166 320 confirmed deaths, the health ministry said.
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/ 19 January 2005
Scandal, e.tv’s new soapie, taps into the entertainment industry’s latest obsession — journalists. Journalism has clearly become the ”new pink”. But this is not the stuff that drives the media world of intrigue, investigation and controversy. Instead, soapies steer away from sexy minds and keep their cameras focused on the bodies of stars who look nothing like the journalists.
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/ 19 January 2005
Last month’s tsunami inundated Sri Lanka’s water supplies and agricultural land with salt water. Despite concerns raised by United Nations officials, Sri Lankan authorities claim the island’s food security is not threatened. The tsunami waves contaminated water and damaged crops most heavily on Sri Lanka’s east coast, whose rice fields produce more than one-third of the country’s total harvest.
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/ 18 January 2005
Chanting ”Oh Allah I’m here”, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims draped in white garments on Tuesday began to take part in rituals symbolising the life of their seventh-century prophet and streaming into the mammoth tent city of Mina. Two million people travel to the holy cities in Saudi Arabia each year to participate in the hajj pilgrimage.
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/ 18 January 2005
An earthquake registering 6,3 on the Richter scale shook the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday night, Kyodo news agency reported, citing the Japan Meteorological Agency. Earlier, a moderate earthquake measuring 4,6 on the Richter scale shook the central region of Niigata.
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/ 18 January 2005
President Thabo Mbeki is not obliged to say why he decided to pardon convicted fraudster Allan Boesak, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday it has written to both Mbeki and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Brigitte Mabandla, asking for full reasons.
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/ 18 January 2005
Soviet-era compact television sets, known for bad reception and low picture quality, are finally popular — as homes for bats. A group of disabled workers in the south-eastern Czech Republic produces bat boxes from the Rubin TV sets’ sturdy plywood casing, which is hard to break and easily resists bad weather.