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/ 2 November 2004
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger ruled out England defender Sol Campbell and Brazil midfielder Edu from Tuesday’s Champions League match against Greek giants Panathinaikos. Both Campbell, who missed Sunday’s 2-2 draw against Southampton, and Edu are suffering from calf injuries.
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/ 2 November 2004
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is tired of talking about his team’s 2-0 loss to Manchester United eight days ago. Reds counterpart Alex Ferguson won’t let the subject go. Ferguson wants Gunners forwards Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp punished for foul play during the game.
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/ 2 November 2004
When the announcement came that Kenyan assistant environment minister Wangari Maathai had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I was in far off lands. At a party the following day, quite a number of folk who had had their fair share of wine were staggering up to where I was seated, pointing at me, and shouting: ”Wangari Maathai”. With that, they would stagger off. People didn’t need to say more to make their point.
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/ 1 November 2004
A British plane enthusiast has put his vintage nuclear bomber up for sale on the internet auction site eBay. ”Vulcan bomber XL391 (complete with engines). Your chance to own a piece of aviation history,” reads the advertisement posted by flying instructor Brian Bateson.
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/ 1 November 2004
A Pakistani’s naturalisation as a German has been revoked after it emerged that he has a wife in each country, court officials said in the northern city of Lueneburg on Monday. Judges said that at the time he gained his citizenship in 1998, he was approaching his 20th wedding anniversary in both nations.
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/ 1 November 2004
Staff at ThisDay newspaper will meet on Tuesday for more information on the future of the broadsheet, which suspended publication last week. The newspaper launched a year ago but failed to hit the streets last week after printers demanded that a contract be signed and promised surety be provided.
Fuel price up by 500%
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/ 1 November 2004
American voters may have shrugged off a surprise appearance by Osama bin Laden, but one day ahead of the United States presidential election, daily newspapers conveyed a general pessimism about the election, no matter who wins.
With final opinion polls searching for any late shift in voter sentiment, neither candidate was seen as breaking out of a suffocating deadlock ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
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/ 1 November 2004
Ten people were arrested on the West Rand and in the North West province on Monday, for allegedly defrauding the Mine Pension Fund of more than R4,5-million, police said. A spokesperson for the Johannesburg commercial crimes unit said several plots and houses of former mine employees were raided on Monday morning.
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/ 1 November 2004
A former elite police officer broke down on Monday in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, where he had been summoned to answer questions about alleged Mafia kingpin Roberto Palazzolo. Abraham Smith was called on the first day of a hearing in which questions drawn up by Italian prosecutors are being put to a series of witnesses.