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/ 23 February 2005
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have agreed a pact that they hope will prevent their relationship from being destroyed. Either can have sex with a third party so long as the other gives permission. They would appear to be trying for a third way between monogamy and infidelity — being faithful to one’s partner while allowing a kind of extramarital sexual licence that will not destroy the relationship.
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/ 22 February 2005
United States President George Bush on Tuesday thanked Nato leaders for helping to train Iraqi security forces, but made clear that plans to lift a European arms embargo on China still trouble transatlantic ties. Bush is in Belgium on a whirlwind campaign to repair US-Europe relations ripped apart by the Iraq war
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/ 22 February 2005
Student leaders must ”sit down and talk” to resolve the issues sparking a series of student protests around Gauteng, a national Department of Education spokesperson said on Tuesday after a series of student uprisings around Gauteng and unrest at a school in the North West province.
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/ 22 February 2005
Gauteng is becoming the safest province in the country, figures from the provincial government and some independent organisations have confirmed, the South African government news agency said on Wednesday. Gauteng community safety minister Firoz Cachalia attributed all this to the increased number of police officers in the province.
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/ 22 February 2005
Forty-three people have died and 13 others have been infected following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the mining area of Zobia, in the region of Bas-Uele in Oriental province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an official in the ministry of health said on Monday.
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/ 22 February 2005
Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the Dawa religious party that has links to Iran, was on Tuesday poised to become Iraq’s next prime minister after winning the support of Shi’ite leaders. The news came as Australia pledged another 450 troops to help stabilise Iraq after January elections that saw the rise to power of the long-oppressed Shi’ite majority.
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/ 22 February 2005
There is no justification for violence and irresponsible action by any student on any campus in South Africa, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. She was commenting in the National Assembly on protest action by students on several Gauteng university campuses.
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/ 22 February 2005
More than 270 people were killed when a huge earthquake struck Iran before dawn on Tuesday, leaving distraught villagers to claw through the rubble of their homes in search of missing family and friends. Officials warned that the casualty toll could rise further as rain and blocked roads made it difficult to reach stricken mountain villages in the south-eastern province of Kerman.
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/ 22 February 2005
Protesting University of Johannesburg students stoned their leaders as they tried to call off a protest march and extend class boycotts on Tuesday. Students who had been gathering the whole morning for a march to the nearby Kingsway campus in Rossmore were angered by news of the class boycotts.