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/ 18 December 2004
One of the bloodiest gang wars in Naples’s modern history is being played out in tower blocks strung with fairy lights and along high streets dotted with chuckling, mechanical Santas. Since the start of November, 28 people have died in killings linked to the Camorra, the Naples equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia.
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/ 18 December 2004
Four people were killed, including at least three who appeared to be foreigners, when gunmen attacked a car in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Friday. One of the victims tried to run to safety but was caught by the insurgents and beheaded by the side of the road, witnesses said. Two of the dead men appeared to be Westerners.
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/ 18 December 2004
A Mexican professional football club has made history by signing a woman. The move has already caused an uproar, but the player is undeterred. ”I’m not frightened of anything,” Maribel Dominguez told reporters at a packed press conference called by the second-division club Celaya.
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/ 18 December 2004
England took the honours on the first day of the first Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test against South Africa at St George’s Park on Friday, largely as a result of some excellent bowling by Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard, on a hot blustery day. South Africa ended the day on 273 for seven.
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/ 17 December 2004
Leonardo da Vinci’s life and work have the perennial capacity to excite and inspire those who engage with them. In his own lifetime they had already become the stuff of legend. Lisa Jardine reviews the two latest works inspired by this great artist.
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/ 17 December 2004
Now that the National Arts Council (NAC) board has formally, finally and fatally been dealt with, it was a pleasure to be entertained by a real circus. There they were at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront in all their spectacular glory — the Moscow Circus — enthralling child and adult alike, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 17 December 2004
The United Nations said on Friday it recently found a bugging device at its European headquarters in Geneva, while a UN source hinted that similar devices may have been discovered in the past. A UN source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it is the first time the world body has acknowledged such a discovery.
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/ 17 December 2004
Refusal by the European Union to grant membership to Turkey would create a chasm between the West and the Muslim world and be a victory for terror chief Osama bin Laden, a Moroccan newspaper said on Friday. It is not yet clear whether Turkey will meet the conditions EU leaders have set for talks on the country’s membership.
EU opens door to Turkey
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/ 17 December 2004
A suspected Islamist linked to the Madrid train bombings on March 11 says Spain was targeted because of its support for the United States in Iraq, local media reported on Friday. The former conservative government denied that Spain’s war alliance with the US had turned it into a terrorist target.
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/ 17 December 2004
A Copenhagen appeals court on Friday upheld a three-year prison sentence for a Danish woman found guilty of receiving and selling rare books stolen from Denmark’s Royal Library, but released one of her accomplices who claimed he did not know the books were stolen.