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/ 2 November 2004
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Deputy President Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashed al-Maktoum, who is also ruler of Dubai, has taken over the reins during the transition following the death on Tuesday of President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan. President Thabo Mbeki expressed South Africa’s ”deepest condolences”.
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/ 2 November 2004
United States marines are on guard outside the rebel bastion of Fallujah, where they believe at least 2 000 fighters are ensconced, the majority of them followers of Iraq’s most-wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The US military believes some of Zarqawi’s top men are in Fallujah, but is not sure about the whereabouts of the leader himself.
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/ 2 November 2004
Festus Gontebanye Mogae was inaugurated on Tuesday for his final term as President of Botswana. He promised his government will remain committed to globalisation and regionalisation, and that economic policies are unlikely to change, but there will be improved implementation of government policies and projects.
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/ 2 November 2004
An expected 140 Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) employees are to down tools this month following a break-down in salary talks, the Public Servants’ Association said on Tuesday. The strike is expected to disrupt valuable research projects nearing critical deadlines.
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/ 2 November 2004
A one-room beach hut overlooking a picturesque bay on the coast of south-west England has sold for £100 000, a British newspaper said on Tuesday. The 2,4m by 4,2m brick chalet on Southbourne Beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, has no more than one room and no toilet, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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/ 2 November 2004
Authorities in Paris’s historic Pere Lachaise cemetery have sealed off one of its most-visited tombs to prevent the perpetration of lewd acts on the prostrate bronze form of a murdered 19th-century journalist. The funerary relic of Victor Noir has long been held as an aid to love or fertility by women.
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/ 2 November 2004
Fathi Arafat, one of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s brothers, is being treated in a Cairo hospital for terminal cancer, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. The 67-year-old, whose cancer was diagnosed several years ago, is a trained doctor and was one of the founders of the Palestinian Red Crescent in 1968.
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/ 2 November 2004
The Ugandan army and police have arrested a Roman Catholic cleric they accuse of collaborating with Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, church sources said on Tuesday. Army spokesperson Major Shaban Bantariza confirmed the arrest, but declined to comment further.
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/ 2 November 2004
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The race between George Bush and John Kerry is not only a race that concerns the United States. The US president influences politics and economics all over the world. So, who do we prefer — and why? Who will be the best candidate for Africa? The Mail & Guardian Online asked South Africa’s political pros who they prefer.