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/ 11 January 2005
Dutch football giants Ajax have stepped up efforts to rid themselves of their image as a Jewish football team, Ajax chairperson John Jaakke announced in his New Year’s speech this weekend. Ajax spokesperson Simon Keizer said on Monday that there is no historical basis for the club’s Jewish image.
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/ 11 January 2005
Chelsea couldn’t have picked a better time to face Manchester United. The two giants meet on Wednesday for the second time this season in England’s second-tier knockout competition, the League Cup. Liverpool host Football League Championship side Watford in the other semifinal on Tuesday.
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/ 11 January 2005
England cricketer Mark Butcher has been ruled out of the rest of the tour to South Africa because of a sprained left wrist, a team spokesperson said on Monday, ahead of the fourth Test between South Africa and England, which starts at the Wanderers cricket ground in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 10 January 2005
Although the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) in November announced the list of 31 preferred suppliers for the R2,5-billion Seat Management Services tender, the state-owned company has not yet signed contracts with the vendors. It remains unclear when the actual procurement processes will get off the ground.
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/ 10 January 2005
Ukraine’s Supreme Court on Monday turned down four appeals of last month’s presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former prime minister who preliminary results show lost to a Western-leaning reformer. It was the latest in a series of moves by Yanukovych to overturn the December 26 election won by Viktor Yushchenko.
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/ 10 January 2005
The vice-president of the International Finance Corporation is not worried about the emerging black elite in South Africa, he said on Monday. ”You have a rich elite in every country. Let them get rich — as long as they reinvest in the country and show corporate responsibility,” Peter Woicke told journalists in Johannesburg.
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/ 10 January 2005
A ballet inspired by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and its challenging equation (e=mc2) will be premiered in London in May to mark the Einstein festivities this year, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday. The ballet, called Constant Speed, will be the highlight of the Rambert Dance Company’s spring tour.
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/ 10 January 2005
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Monday announced a Cabinet reshuffle and sacked a confidant as well as parliament’s chief whip in the Southern African country, saying it will broaden their experience. ”These changes are meant to expose my colleagues to different responsibilities so as to sharpen and widen their experience,” he said.
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/ 10 January 2005
The signing of an agreement to end two decades of civil war in Sudan not only brings the opportunity for millions of people to return home and begin new lives, but also carries with it a chance for investors to make money in a needy country with large oil reserves and, now, substantial international goodwill.
Peace ‘will change Sudan forever’