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/ 18 February 2005
Iraq has gained a relatively stable foundation for drawing up a new Constitution after this week’s election results. The figures show that no group will be able to railroad its proposals through the drafting process. The watchwords will have to be dialogue and compromise. A balance of parties means the new Constitution will be a product of compromise.
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/ 17 February 2005
Your chewing gum has just lost its flavour, but there is no garbage can in sight. What do you do? According to Jewish law, get ready to swallow it. A prominent Israeli rabbi has ruled that spitting gum on a sidewalk or hiding it under a desk is a violation of Halacha or Jewish law.
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/ 17 February 2005
A meeting on Thursday between Togo’s new military-installed leader, Faure Gnassingbe, with his fiercest critic of his accession to power, the chairperson of the African Union, Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, has ended, officials said. The Economic Community of West African States has threatened Togo with sanctions.
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/ 17 February 2005
Fifty-two hippos have died of anthrax in a western Ugandan game park since the beginning of the year. The disease killed 250 in the same park in the second half of 2004, Deputy Tourism Minister Jovino Akaki Ayumu said on Thursday. Anthrax struck the park bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo last July.
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/ 17 February 2005
North Korea has affronted China. Pyongyang’s announcement that it has long possessed nuclear weapons and has no immediate intention of negotiating over the issue has left its old friend and neighbour speechless. China is attempting to cover its dismay with frenetic diplomatic activity.
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/ 17 February 2005
The 2010 Soccer World Cup will give a central role to the country’s youth, South African Football Association chief executive Danny Jordaan said after meeting with the African National Congress Youth League on Thursday. ”The 2010 World Cup is to a large extent youth-focused,” Jordaan said after the meeting.
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/ 17 February 2005
A bomb exploded on Thursday outside a hotel in southern Thailand, killing four people and wounding up to 40 just two hours after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra cut short a trip to the restive region, police said. The blast is believed to be the deadliest bombing in a campaign of violence that has gripped the Muslim-dominated deep south.
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/ 17 February 2005
The V&A Waterfront development — which is one of South Africa’s top tourist attractions — is up for sale, Minister of Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said in Parliament on Thursday. Discussing the contentious issue of state asset privatisation, Erwin said the government will sell all businesses that are not core to its functions.
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/ 17 February 2005
Police found four types of sedative drugs at the house of two Pretoria advocates, accused among other things of drugging and raping a woman and a girl, a court heard on Thursday. Pharmacologist George Muntingh testified in the Pretoria High Court trial of Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo about the sedative effects of the drugs.