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/ 17 January 2005
Five of the last remaining highly endangered northern white rhinos in the wild are to be airlifted from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Kenya in coming weeks to protect them from extinction at the hands of poachers. The rhinos are to be moved to a wildlife reserve in Kenya, a lead conservationist on the project said.
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/ 17 January 2005
The South African government was mum on Monday on the fate of a suspected spy arrested in Zimbabwe in a trap laid by one of his ”informants”. The Department of Foreign Affairs referred enquiries to the intelligence services, while the Presidency directed reporters to the department. Media reports said the South African agent is being held by Zimbabwean authorities.
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/ 17 January 2005
An Indian man who beat his wife in the belief that uncomplimentary SMSes she had sent to friends regarding her dog were about him, has been fined by a Dubai court, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Monday. ”He doesn’t listen to me. He doesn’t like the food I give him,” said one of the SMSes.
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/ 17 January 2005
A woman who used the date-rape drug Rohypnol to drug wealthy men and rob them of their expensive clothes and accessories was jailed for five years on Monday. Selina Hakki is believed to be the first woman to be found guilty of using Rohypnol to drug men in Britain.
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/ 17 January 2005
Dressed in a seamless white robe, Algerian pilgrim Tayyeb Bouguettaya circled the Kaaba several times on Monday with a prayer booklet in one hand and a cellphone in the other, reciting religious mantras in unison with his wife a continent away. Modern technology has changed the way Muslims experience the hajj pilgrimage.
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/ 17 January 2005
Firearms handed in to police in three provinces in the first two weeks of a three-month amnesty period were mostly legal weapons. On Monday, about 560 firearms had been already been handed over to police in Gauteng, who also received more than 21 000 rounds of ammunition, of which most were handed in voluntarily.
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/ 17 January 2005
The ruling African National Congress’s Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu has been elected unopposed as the new chairperson of the second chamber of South Africa’s Parliament, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). Mahlangu was first elected to the National Assembly in 1994 but became deputy chairperson of the NCOP in 2002.
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/ 17 January 2005
The United States wants to resolve the issue of the debt burden that is crippling the growth of many African countries, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said on Monday. He was addressing journalists in Cape Town, where he is attending a Commission for Africa meeting. Progress in this area, he said, is possible in the next few months.
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/ 17 January 2005
A five-wicket haul by England’s Matthew Hoggard after lunch on the fifth and final day of the fourth Castle Lager/MTN Test at the Wanderers on Monday has put England in sight of victory. At tea, South Africa were 98 for five. They needed 217 more runs to win, but more importantly, needed to survive another 38 overs to force a draw.