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/ 18 October 2004
The South African government has taken "strong exception" to reported comments attributed to the interim Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, accusing President Thabo Mbeki of failing to respect international law by allegedly "allowing a person in his territory to organise violence in another country".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123896">’Mbeki not respecting international law'</a>
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/ 18 October 2004
A Nigerian police officer on Friday fired into a group of youths that had descended on government offices to demand Ramadan presents, killing two and injuring three more, a government spokesperson said on Monday. The clash erupted on the second day of the annual Muslim month of prayer and fasting.
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/ 18 October 2004
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conceded on Monday he may have to call fresh elections to end divisions over his Gaza pull-out plan as pressure for a referendum mounted within his party. In the latest violence, four Palestinians militants were shot dead by Israeli troops, including a Hamas pair who were planning to attack a kibbutz.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=123852">’They destroyed all the houses'</a>
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/ 18 October 2004
The troubled western Sudan region of Darfur is facing another catastrophe with a growing number of animal deaths, including donkeys, in the region where more than 70 000 people have died in a major humanitarian crisis. Donkeys are economically vital for the impoverished people of Darfur.
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/ 18 October 2004
The African Christian Democratic Party has called on President Thabo Mbeki to respond to claims he is breaking international law by allowing deposed Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide to incite violence, from South Africa, among his followers in his homeland. The Democratic Alliance also called on Mbeki to respond to the allegations.
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/ 18 October 2004
Are global stock markets proving resilient in the face of surging oil prices or in danger of going nowhere — except downwards — unless crude futures reverse their relentless march higher? That’s the puzzle analysts were trying to solve on Monday as oil prices pushed into new uncharted territory above a barrel.
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/ 18 October 2004
Sex workers in the Indian city of Calcutta are up in arms over an ancient ritual in which earth dug from near brothels is offered as a symbol of fertility to the Hindu goddess Durga. Hindu priests are digging up the soil before the biggest annual festival in West Bengal state, the Durga Puja.
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/ 18 October 2004
Rough seas and bad weather on Monday were preventing the salvage of the BBC China, which ran aground at Grosvenor Point on the Wild Coast at the weekend. All 16 crew members were airlifted off the ship during a six-hour rescue operation in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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/ 18 October 2004
The Nigerian government should intervene to protect two more women sentenced to death by stoning by Islamic courts, the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) said on Monday. Sentencing women to death by stoning goes against every human rights standard, said Thoba Poyo, chairperson of the LSSA standing committee on gender equality.
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/ 18 October 2004
Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, and France’s ”most French of Americans”, has died of heart failure at 79. He died in hospital near his home of Le Thor, outside Avignon, after recent surgery to fit a pacemaker, his wife, Nicole, said.