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/ 7 December 2004
Bernie Ecclestone’s future as formula-one grand prix supremo was cast into doubt on Monday when London’s High Court dealt a blow to his boardroom power base. But the ruling may have helped prevent a breakaway movement launched by four formula-one teams from carrying out its threat to create a rival series to formula one.
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/ 7 December 2004
Two of the first opinion polls since nominations closed for the Palestinian presidential election show a tight race between the establishment candidate, Mahmoud Abbas, and the imprisoned military commander, Marwan Barghouti. A third poll gives Abbas a clear lead.
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/ 7 December 2004
United Cricket Board (UCB) CEO Gerald Majola has rapped national coach Ray Jennings over the knuckles for his outspoken comments to reporters. This emerged from an e-mail accidentally sent to the media on Tuesday by UCB media manager Gerald de Kock.
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/ 6 December 2004
The South African National Blood Service appealed for blood on Monday ahead of the holiday season — but at the same time, another meeting was taking place with the Department of Health to clarify issues surrounding its racial profiling policies. The department has confirmed that race is one of the criteria the service uses to establish blood safety.
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/ 6 December 2004
Seven bombs went off in as many Spanish cities on Monday within the space of half an hour, slightly injuring five people, after anonymous callers claiming to speak for the underground Basque separatist group ETA told a Basque newspaper to expect the explosions.
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/ 6 December 2004
An investigation has been ordered into an Eastern Cape doctor’s alleged refusal to treat a two-year-old rape victim on Saturday. The Eastern Cape health department’s superintendent general has appointed a team of investigators to probe the incident and make recommendations, a departmental spokesperson said on Monday.
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/ 6 December 2004
The case of four Chinese accused of murdering a Pretoria family was postponed to Tuesday by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. The postponement followed a dispute as to whether Shen Lin, Yanbo Zang, Jain-hen Bai and Siyuan Liu were originally arrested for kidnapping only or murder as well, as the charge sheet now states.
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The Durban High Court has been left to decide whether Schabir Shaik’s tax returns can be used against him in his trial for alleged fraud and corruption. The state already has in its possession an affidavit from Rob Reid, an employee at the South African Revenue Service’s office in Durban.
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/ 6 December 2004
New Zealand’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has issued a warning about what it calls the latest ”Nigerian letter scam” — an e-mail offering millions of dollars linked to the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, it was reported on Monday.
The e-mail claims to be from his widow, Suha Arafat.