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/ 25 October 2004
Cambodia’s notorious underwear thieves have struck again, shooting and seriously wounding a motorbike taxi driver just outside the capital, local media said on Monday. The gang earned its name because its members wear nothing but underpants, but wield AK-47s.
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/ 25 October 2004
A Kenyan man who has married 130 women in 65 years says that ”dictatorship and hard work” is required to make a polygamous family happy and productive. Eighty-five-year-old Ancentus Akuku, also known as ”Danger”, lives in Homa Bay on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya.
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/ 25 October 2004
Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has won re-election for a fourth term by an overwhelming margin in a vote denounced as ”surreal” and an insult to democracy by several opposition leaders. According to final figures announced by the Interior Ministry on Monday, Ben Ali garnered 94,48% of the weekend vote.
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/ 25 October 2004
Only 200 of an expected 5 000 residents marched on the Natalspruit hospital in Katlehong on Monday afternoon to demand a response to a memorandum handed to the hospital’s management last month. One of the marchers, Patricia Mkani, said nothing seems to be going right at the hospital.
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/ 25 October 2004
Gold was fixed in London on Monday afternoon at $429,15 a troy ounce, the highest afternoon fix for the metal since September 9 1988, according to the London Bullion Market Association website. At 4.35pm, gold was quoted at $428,65 a troy ounce from a New York close of $424,33/oz.
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/ 25 October 2004
A theory that birds may have had four wings during a stage of their evolution has been given fresh support with the discovery of a new fossil in China. The so-far unnamed creature, which lived between 124-million and 145-million years ago, belonged to an extinct group of primitive flying birds called the enantiornithines.
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/ 25 October 2004
Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster has denied its news department, a key propaganda arm of the government, is unable to pay its journalists and faces bankruptcy, state radio reported on Monday. The troubled state broadcaster has acknowledged in recent months that it is facing financial problems.
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/ 25 October 2004
A self-confessed Boeremag coup plotter told the Pretoria High Court on Monday he felt ”uncomfortable” with plans to annihilate the ”enemy”, who had been identified as all blacks, coloureds and Indians. He said the Boeremag had plans to shoot holes into electricity transformers, causing them to blow up and leave people without electricity.
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/ 25 October 2004
The launch of France’s first gay television channel, Pink TV, on Monday has been touted as a big step for television and a new era for homosexuality in this largely Roman Catholic country. The channel is ”a giant leap for television, a small step in high heels”, presenter Eric Gueho says in a promotional clip.
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/ 25 October 2004
A witness told the Schabir Shaik trial in Durban on Monday that Shaik believed his political connections would enable his company to get a slice of the multibillion-rand arms deal. He said French firm Thomson CSF regarded political connections as important in the adjudication process of the arms deal.
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