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/ 17 December 2004
A Somali warlord said on Friday his gunmen have fired heavy artillery shells towards the closed seaport in Mogadishu to scare away two foreign vessels that have been trying to dock there. The shells were fired late on Thursday and early on Friday when the privately owned MV Star and MV Bilal tried to anchor.
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/ 17 December 2004
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday appealed for -million to feed about 224 000 refugees who face food shortages in Kenya. ”Less and less food has been reaching refugee families. It will get continually worse unless contributions come forward urgently,” said Tesema Negash, the WFP’s country director in Kenya.
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/ 17 December 2004
KwaZulu-Natal police on Friday declared a media blackout on details surrounding the deportation of convicted child molester Alan Pyle from New Zealand to South Africa. This follows media reports that Pyle, a South African convicted of abusing three girls in New Zealand, was to be arrested at Johannesburg International airport on Friday morning.
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/ 17 December 2004
<b>NOT MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> The best joke has already been made about Oliver Stone’s epic <i>Alexander</i>: it has many highlights, said one critic, but unfortunately they are all in Colin Farrell’s hair, reports Shaun de Waal.
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/ 17 December 2004
With the music industry hit by a testosterone rush, Brian Letlhabane talks to local pop’s heart-throbs and heavies, featuring the likes of MXO, Mr Selwyn and RJ Bejamin.
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/ 17 December 2004
The sounds you’ll be bopping to this summer — whether you like it or not. We lend an ear to this season’s hot (and not so hot) musical options.
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/ 17 December 2004
The queen has sacked a member of the Buckingham Palace staff for offering for sale on eBay one of the Christmas puddings she hands out to staff during the festive season, the Daily Mirror reported on Friday. Ben Church was frogmarched off the premises earlier this week, the left-wing tabloid said.
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/ 17 December 2004
The police destroyed more than 20 500 firearms in Kempton Park on Friday in a bid to fight the proliferation of guns in the country. ”The police are winning the war on the proliferation of illegal firearms,” Gauteng police’s acting spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said.
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/ 17 December 2004
Zimbabwe’s information minister has warned that alleged plans by the British government to deport up to 10Â 000 Zimbabweans could be cover for saboteurs to enter the country. Moyo said on Thursday that the British government has been training young Zimbabweans in violence and sabotage.
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/ 17 December 2004
A group of Free State farmers’ efforts to raise money with a nude calendar, inspired by the movie <i>Calendar Girls</i>, seems to be paying off despite the outrage of some fellow farmers. The group of eight "nude and well bodied" Viljoenskroon farmers hope to raise money for their local Groenbloem farmers’ association.