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/ 2 December 2004
Harbhajan Singh bagged a seven-wicket haul to help India move close to victory over South Africa in the second and final Test on Thursday. The off-spinner finished with 7-87 as South Africa were bowled out for 222 on the final day to set an easy target of 117 for the home side after they conceded a 106-run first innings lead.
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/ 2 December 2004
Vitali Klitschko begins his day an hour earlier than usual, waking at 6am so he can have some time before training for his heavyweight title defence against Danny Williams. That’s when he gets on the phone with friends and family in Ukraine, getting the latest news on the country’s presidential crisis just as the sun begins to come up in Los Angeles.
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/ 2 December 2004
South African skipper Graeme Smith on Thursday admitted missing an experienced spinner in his side during the two-Test series against India. ”We missed having a frontline spinner in the team,” Smith said after South Africa went down in the second Test by eight wickets on a pitch aiding turn to lose the series 1-0.
Harbhajan helps India trounce SA
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/ 1 December 2004
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Former Heath investigating unit head Willem Heath will take the stand in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court on Thursday.
This follows two days of testimony relating to Heath’s exclusion from investigations into alleged arms deal irregularities.
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/ 1 December 2004
Britain said on Wednesday it believed kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan was likely dead, even though dental records proved a body found in Iraq wasn’t hers.
The Foreign Office said dental tests were conducted on a mutilated body found in Fallujah by United States marines, who believed it was that of a Western woman.
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/ 1 December 2004
The Ugandan army said on Wednesday that it had deployed an unspecified number of troops along its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to prevent incursions by ”negative elements” based there. Referring to Ugandan rebels in DRC, army spokesperson Major Shaban Bantariza said: ”They are not a great threat but we are following them and picking up some of them one by one.”
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/ 1 December 2004
Among the champions of an international landmine ban attending a major conference in Nairobi this week was a group of former generals from several countries who said on Wednesday that the deadly devices offered a false sense of security and were of little military value. Currently, Russia, Nepal, Georgia and Myanmar are the only governments known to have used landmines since May 2003.
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/ 1 December 2004
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has urged Britain to increase pressure on the government of President Robert Mugabe to ensure fair elections in March. He also said the MDC will decide in two or three weeks whether it will participate in the elections. ”We have not yet finalised a decision. We will consider all options, including that of participation and non-participation.”
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/ 1 December 2004
The Constitutional Court reserved judgment on Wednesday on an attempt by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) to join an appeal bid by the State against the acquittal of apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson.
The institute seeks permission to join the proceedings as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) to allow it to present arguments on the legal implications arising from the failure to hold Basson accountable under international law.