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/ 13 January 2005
Despite the modest correction in the gold price, the first half of 2005 is expected to see renewed interest in the precious metal. Gold is forecast to average $447 a troy ounce in the six-month period, United Kingdom-based consultancy GFMS said in a report released on Thursday.
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/ 13 January 2005
The United States investigators searching for Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction have given up the hunt and left Iraq with an appeal to the Pentagon for the release of several Iraqi scientists still being questioned, it was reported on Wednesday. Charles Duelfer, who led the Iraq Survey Group, has returned to the US and will deliver a final report in the spring.
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/ 13 January 2005
The battle over attempts to introduce a version of creationism into the curriculum of United States schools has become focused on a small town in Pennsylvania. Biology teachers at a high school in Dover have rejected the instructions of local officials to read a statement in class on Thursday questioning the theory of evolution.
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/ 13 January 2005
The international tribunal for Rwanda was criticised on Wednesday for its failure to charge Tutsis suspected of killing Hutus in the 1994 genocide. Filip Reyntjens, a Belgian historian and expert witness on the genocide, said he would stop cooperating with the tribunal because no Tutsis from the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebel army had been indicted.
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/ 13 January 2005
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Thursday reiterated the call for restrictive trade barriers to be removed and for the Doha development round on international trade to be finalised in time. He was speaking at the International Meeting on Small Island Developing States in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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/ 13 January 2005
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he is ready to honour the security commitments in an internationally backed peace plan, adding that he hopes to resume peace talks with Israel soon. Abbas, elected earlier this week, said he is eager to restart talks on the ”road map” peace plan, backed by the United States, European Union and the Russian Federation.
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/ 13 January 2005
Algerian authorities are mopping up the main Islamic extremist group responsible for the deaths of dozens of people, having wiped out another movement, Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni said in an interview published on Thursday. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat has become the principal extremist group in Algeria’s Islamist rebellion.
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/ 13 January 2005
More prison workers could be fired following threats of legal action by the South African Prisoners Human Rights Organisation (Sapohr), National Correctional Services Commissioner Linda Mti warned on Thursday. Sapohr has served papers on the Department of Correctional Services after the dismissal of prison staff in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
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/ 13 January 2005
It was honours even at lunch on the first day of the fourth Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test at the Wanderers on Thursday. England, who won the toss and chose to bat, went to lunch on 77 for the loss of one wicket. South Africa made two changes to the team that won the third Test.
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/ 13 January 2005
South African pop-culture icons have joined the Treatment Action Campaign and jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss in a campaign to limit the spread of HIV/Aids among youth. All money raised by the campaign’s first event, the Rage for the Revolution concert on February 12, will go towards treatment of HIV-positive people.