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/ 21 December 2004
South Africa all-rounder Andrew Hall has been officially reprimanded for breaching the International Cricket Council code of conduct during the third day of his country’s first Test match against England. Hall was found guilty of aggressively gesturing towards the pavilion upon the dismissal of England captain Michael Vaughan on Sunday.
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/ 21 December 2004
Jose Antonio Reyes was ruled out of Arsenal’s Christmas matches on Monday after twisting a knee in training. Spanish striker Reyes missed Sunday’s gruelling 1-0 win at Portsmouth on Sunday, which put the champions back in second place within five points of leaders Chelsea. Reyes will also miss the December 26 home game with Fulham.
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/ 21 December 2004
Determining which nation deserves to be on top of world rugby isn’t easy after some topsy-turvy international results this year. England swung low, the Wallabies were wobbly at times and the All Blacks, while finishing 2004 at number one in the International Rugby Board rankings after eight wins in 10 Tests, weren’t exactly all-conquering.
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/ 20 December 2004
The Department of Health said on Monday it intends to take its fight further to maintain controversial medicine-pricing regulations, following the Supreme Court of Appeal’s voiding of the regulations. The court found the fixed dispensing fees are inappropriate as they fail to consider the viability of the dispensing industry.
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/ 20 December 2004
The fuel price is expected to drop by 45 cents a litre from January 5, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday. The department attributed the decrease to a drop in international crude oil and refined petroleum products during the fuel-price review period of November 26 to December 13.
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/ 20 December 2004
Rwanda withdrew on Monday a threat to send soldiers into the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Kinshasa accuses them of siding with rebels in the eastern town of Kanyabayonga that has been gripped by fighting. ”We are no longer going to threaten to go into the DRC,” Foreign Minister Charles Murigande said.
New DRC fighting kills at least 14
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/ 20 December 2004
Yukos’s jailed founder accused the Russian government of ”destroying” the nation’s top oil group on Monday as mystery surrounded the new owner of its crown jewel, widely seen as linked to state-run gas giant Gazprom. In an auction cloaked in secrecy on Sunday, the Russian authorities sold Yukos’s main subsidiary to an unknown entity.
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/ 20 December 2004
Gifts not distributed during former president Nelson Mandela’s annual Christmas party will be handed out to pre-schools early in 2005, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund announced on Monday. The party was called off in the Eastern Cape on Sunday after ”shuffling and pushing” among the 76 000-strong crowd.
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/ 20 December 2004
Gambia’s lively independent media fell silent on Monday to open a weeklong news blackout to honour Deida Hydara, the dean of the press corps who was slain last week in what his colleagues believe was a politically motivated act. Hydara (58) was felled by three bullets in what colleagues said appeared to be a drive-by shooting.