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/ 5 December 2004
The gunmen made Mohammed Aadam lie with his face in the dirt while his sister was being raped. He had been sitting in his hut that morning, playing cards with friends, when the Janjaweed attacked. ”The Janjaweed were shooting and people from the village were running into the forest,” said Aadam, aged 23.
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/ 5 December 2004
South Africa launched five tries in the first half-hour and cruised past Argentina 39-7 in a rugby international at Velez Sarsfield on Saturday. The Springboks led 36-0 after 30 minutes then loosened their grip and could add only a second-half penalty by fullback Gaffie du Toit, who finished with two tries in a 24-point haul.
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/ 4 December 2004
Collisions on South Africa’s roads on the first weekend of the festive season have claimed the lives of at least six adults and a five-month-old baby and left 20 people injured. A woman travelling in a minibus taxi was killed when it was hit from behind by a truck on the Clairwood off-ramp on the M4 south, near Durban, at 9am on Saturday, said KwaZulu-Natal traffic spokesperson, Colin Govender.
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/ 4 December 2004
He always claimed to drink everyday Georgian red wine served from clay jugs, but the truth about ”Uncle Joe” Stalin’s taste in vintages proved very different on Friday. In the shameful arena — for a communist — of Sotheby’s auction rooms in London, 195 bottles from the great dictator’s dessert wine cellar were auctioned, several going for more than £2 000 a bottle.
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/ 4 December 2004
The Mi-17 helicopter rocks and shudders into life, the rotors accelerating until flight UN863 is airborne and skimming the rooftops of Goma for another mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The helicopter is Russian-made, the crew is Indian and the passengers comprise South African infantrymen, a Uruguayan officer, a Filipino technician and an American diplomat.
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/ 4 December 2004
The United States-led hunt for the Taliban continues relentlessly in Afghanistan. Three years after invading, 18 000 soldiers wield a battery of hi-tech weapons; stealth aircraft crowd the skies; satellites spin overhead; and special forces creep across remote mountains in a billion-dollar mission.
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/ 4 December 2004
A 76-year-old retired Dutch maths teacher described on Friday how for more than 25 years he was feted by communist leaders around the world as the inspired head of a radical Marxist-Leninist party that never, in fact, existed. As Chris Petersen, head of the supposedly 600-member Marxist-Leninist party of the Netherlands, Pieter Boevé travelled to Beijing more than two dozen times and met Mao Zedong.
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/ 4 December 2004
Gunmen stormed a police station and bombed a Shia mosque in two simultaneous dawn attacks in Baghdad on Friday which killed at least 30 Iraqis and injured several. Dozens of prisoners were freed and weapons were looted from the police station, a brazen show of strength by the insurgents. Shortly afterwards guerrillas attacked at least two police stations in the northern city of Mosul.
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/ 4 December 2004
United States sprinter Marion Jones says she’ll sue accused steroid peddler Victor Conte over his allegations that she received banned drugs before winning five medals at the Sydney Olympics ”Victor Contes’s allegations about me are not true, and the truth will come out in the appropriate forum,” Jones said Friday in a statement issued through her attorney.