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/ 29 January 2005
As darkness fell across Baghdad on Friday night — the silence punctuated by explosions and helicopters — residents, prisoners in their homes, awaited the unknown. A weekend of bloodshed seemed certain, but how much blood, and whose, nobody knew.
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/ 28 January 2005
El Hadji Diouf celebrated his 24th birthday last week, but the Bolton Wanderers player was most pleased when he received a telephone call from Steven Gerrard wishing him many happy returns. The much-vilified striker likes to tell this tale for two reasons. He speaks to Paul Wilson about his determination to clean up his image
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/ 28 January 2005
South African Airways (SAA) is offering voluntary severance packages to its 602 managers as part of its effort to turn the business around, the company announced in Johannesburg on Friday. Chief executive Khaya Ngqula announced this at a press conference at Johannesburg International airport on Friday.
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/ 28 January 2005
Lleyton Hewitt, who seems to feed off controversy and adversity, endured 31 aces to beat second-seeded Andy Roddick 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Friday and advance to the Australian Open final. Third-ranked Hewitt, the ”Aussie battler”, was at his aggressive, fist-pumping best against Roddick.
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/ 28 January 2005
Former provincial rugby player and soap-opera actor Deon Coetzee was fined R10 000 or three years in jail on Friday for drunken driving. He appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court before magistrate Clive Linden, who suspended half the fine for five years, leaving Coetzee (43) to pay a fine of R5 000, which he did.
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/ 28 January 2005
Nearly half the population of Zimbabwe is facing hunger and needs food assistance as the country’s food emergency deepens, a famine early-warning group reported on Friday. The report sharply contradicts government assertions that the country has harvested more food — mainly of the corn staple — than it needs to feed the nation.
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/ 28 January 2005
Hundreds of Kenyans fled their homes and farms in the western district of Trans Nzoia on Friday, one day after Pokot herdsmen attacked a farm owned by a Luhya tribesman in a simmering two-month-old tribal dispute over scarce pasture and water. Police and army reinforcements arrived in the area on Friday to prevent further attacks.
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/ 28 January 2005
Moscow is to build a giant Disneyland-style theme park, which, at 300ha will be three times as big as Mickey Mouse’s home in Florida, artist and project leader Zurab Tsereteli said in the Russian capital on Friday. The Moscow Wonder Park will take between five and seven years to complete on a peninsula in the River Moscow in the south of the city.
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/ 28 January 2005
Thousands of expatriate Iraqis began casting ballots on Friday in their country’s first free election for more than half a century, with emotions running high despite the relatively limited numbers taking part. ”I’m doing this for my children … it’s the first step in a thousand-mile journey,” a voter in Dubai said.
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/ 28 January 2005
Swedish twin sisters Gunhild Gallstedt and Siri Ingvarsson celebrate their 100th birthday this weekend surrounded by three generations of family, Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday. The sisters were born in Malmo on January 30 1905 and have lived in the same apartment block in Stockholm for the past 60 years.