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/ 10 December 2004
The Australian Rugby Union announced on Friday that Perth have been chosen as the fourth Australian team for the expanded Super 14 rugby competition in the 2006 season. They join Australia’s three teams in the current Super 12 competition — ACT Brumbies, NSW Waratahs and Queensland Reds.
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/ 10 December 2004
At Lviv railway station, just after 7am last Wednesday, every one of the city’s old stones seemed damp and chill. There weren’t many people around, but every fourth person going about their business here in western Ukraine wore Viktor Yushchenko’s orange colours. Few places have been the nexus of as much evil as Lviv station, from where the Nazis sent tens of thousands of Jews to death camps.
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/ 10 December 2004
Mashonaland representatives who proposed a no-confidence vote against Zimbabwe Cricket chairperson Peter Chingoka and the board were threatened with legal action by Chingoka on Thursday. They claimed Zimbabwe Cricket acted unconstitutionally in renaming itself, and wasted money without proper consultation.
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/ 10 December 2004
One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO. The HIV/Aids pandemic, appalling poverty and dire health conditions had left 4,6-million youngsters without parents.
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/ 10 December 2004
KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele has questioned whether reconciliation among blacks is proving ”more difficult than fighting the oppression of apartheid” . He has blamed the divided leadership between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party for infusing the province with ”hatred”. Ndebele has also made an unprecedented call for unity in the province.
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/ 10 December 2004
There are some players who make you angry. Robbie Savage, Dennis Wise, Patrick Vieira, the old Roy Keane, the even older Vinnie Jones. But then there are the bloody silly. Robbie Fowler springs to mind, but he scored a cracker this week so we’ll leave him be. Ironically, it’s his Manchester City strike partner Nicolas Anelka who must suffer the icy blast this week.
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/ 10 December 2004
In Newcastle at weekends you can hardly move these days for blokes wearing T-shirts emblazoned with their nicknames -”Cidergut”, ”Sumo”, ”Nobby”. It’s as if they need a constant reminder of who they are and the mayhem they are bent on. A visceral need to celebrate and affirm through the medium of screen-printing afflicts footballers, too.
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/ 10 December 2004
”The goal was … worth millions.” The carefully expressed thoughts of Liverpool’s slightly starchy Spanish coach Rafael Benitez capture the essence of this week’s final round of Champions League group matches. And that essence is Steve Gerrard, arguably the best player in the Premiership right now.
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/ 9 December 2004
Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that government plans to allow same-sex marriage are constitutional, in a landmark ruling in the long battle for equal rights for gays and lesbians. The government had asked the court to examine its Bill before it enters Parliament, a step expected to follow early next year.