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/ 18 December 2004
Donald Rumsfeld is at the centre of a Republican firestorm over his handling of the war in Iraq, with pressure appearing to mount in Washington for him to quit as Defence Secretary. The acerbic Pentagon chief has become a focus of anxieties about the conduct of the war and about the future of Iraq.
Mosul victim beheaded at roadside
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/ 18 December 2004
He is better known for invading Poland and starting World War II. But according to new records discovered in a Munich archive, Adolf Hitler was also an inveterate tax dodger, it emerged on Friday, who systematically evaded paying his tax bills both before and after he became Germany’s dictator.
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/ 18 December 2004
British arms firm BAE on Friday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to United Kingdom weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet. Sums of up to -million are listed in Pinochet’s bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.
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/ 18 December 2004
One of the bloodiest gang wars in Naples’s modern history is being played out in tower blocks strung with fairy lights and along high streets dotted with chuckling, mechanical Santas. Since the start of November, 28 people have died in killings linked to the Camorra, the Naples equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia.
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/ 18 December 2004
Four people were killed, including at least three who appeared to be foreigners, when gunmen attacked a car in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Friday. One of the victims tried to run to safety but was caught by the insurgents and beheaded by the side of the road, witnesses said. Two of the dead men appeared to be Westerners.
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/ 18 December 2004
A Mexican professional football club has made history by signing a woman. The move has already caused an uproar, but the player is undeterred. ”I’m not frightened of anything,” Maribel Dominguez told reporters at a packed press conference called by the second-division club Celaya.
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/ 18 December 2004
England took the honours on the first day of the first Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test against South Africa at St George’s Park on Friday, largely as a result of some excellent bowling by Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard, on a hot blustery day. South Africa ended the day on 273 for seven.
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/ 17 December 2004
Now that the National Arts Council (NAC) board has formally, finally and fatally been dealt with, it was a pleasure to be entertained by a real circus. There they were at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront in all their spectacular glory — the Moscow Circus — enthralling child and adult alike, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 17 December 2004
Leonardo da Vinci’s life and work have the perennial capacity to excite and inspire those who engage with them. In his own lifetime they had already become the stuff of legend. Lisa Jardine reviews the two latest works inspired by this great artist.
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/ 17 December 2004
The United Nations said on Friday it recently found a bugging device at its European headquarters in Geneva, while a UN source hinted that similar devices may have been discovered in the past. A UN source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it is the first time the world body has acknowledged such a discovery.