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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.
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/ 17 December 2004
A Somali warlord said on Friday his gunmen have fired heavy artillery shells towards the closed seaport in Mogadishu to scare away two foreign vessels that have been trying to dock there. The shells were fired late on Thursday and early on Friday when the privately owned MV Star and MV Bilal tried to anchor.
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/ 17 December 2004
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday appealed for -million to feed about 224 000 refugees who face food shortages in Kenya. ”Less and less food has been reaching refugee families. It will get continually worse unless contributions come forward urgently,” said Tesema Negash, the WFP’s country director in Kenya.
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/ 17 December 2004
KwaZulu-Natal police on Friday declared a media blackout on details surrounding the deportation of convicted child molester Alan Pyle from New Zealand to South Africa. This follows media reports that Pyle, a South African convicted of abusing three girls in New Zealand, was to be arrested at Johannesburg International airport on Friday morning.
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/ 17 December 2004
The sounds you’ll be bopping to this summer — whether you like it or not. We lend an ear to this season’s hot (and not so hot) musical options.
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/ 17 December 2004
With the music industry hit by a testosterone rush, Brian Letlhabane talks to local pop’s heart-throbs and heavies, featuring the likes of MXO, Mr Selwyn and RJ Bejamin.
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/ 17 December 2004
<b>NOT MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> The best joke has already been made about Oliver Stone’s epic <i>Alexander</i>: it has many highlights, said one critic, but unfortunately they are all in Colin Farrell’s hair, reports Shaun de Waal.
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/ 17 December 2004
The queen has sacked a member of the Buckingham Palace staff for offering for sale on eBay one of the Christmas puddings she hands out to staff during the festive season, the Daily Mirror reported on Friday. Ben Church was frogmarched off the premises earlier this week, the left-wing tabloid said.