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The price of oil could hover around per barrel with a significant effect on the global economic outlook, the SA Reserve Bank said on Tuesday. Speaking at the annual dinner in honour of ambassadors and high commissioners to South Africa in Pretoria, Governor Tito Mboweni said: ”The behaviour of the oil prices has changed the global economic outlook in a real way.”
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/ 8 December 2004
The United States Congress voted on Tuesday to adopt the September 11 commission’s recommendations for sweeping reform of America’s intelligence services, after the White House intervened to reach a compromise with Republican dissidents.
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/ 8 December 2004
Israel is increasingly wary that British Prime Minister Tony Blair will use his impending visit to force the pace of the peace process as he promotes his own Middle East conference following Yasser Arafat’s death. Concern is increasing in Jerusalem at Britain’s attempts to force a greater role for Europe in ending the conflict.
Sharon tries to muster support
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/ 8 December 2004
The Bush administration’s robust assertions that the situation in Iraq would improve with next month’s elections were badly shaken on Tuesday with the leak of a gloomy end-of-tour cable from the departing CIA station chief in Baghdad. It arrived on a day when United States forces recorded the death of the 1 000th soldier to be killed in combat since the beginning of the war.
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The wine industry in the Western Cape has been stunned by the illegal-flavourant scandal at KWV, the province’s agriculture minister, Cobus Dowry, said on Tuesday. "A scandal such as this has the potential to fundamentally damage this industry and if not addressed properly, take years to mend."
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/ 8 December 2004
Some of the most important issues to be addressed in the climate change talks that opened in Buenos Aires is how Brazil, China and India can be persuaded to tackle global warming. Also high on the agenda, is getting the delegates to agree on a comprehensive ”road map” for what happens after the Kyoto Protocol commitment period ends.
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/ 8 December 2004
The key to a lifelong marriage? Avoid boredom, agree over sex, and weather the infidelity years, because there’s a higher chance for lifelong marriage than we might suppose. The testimonies of those who have got there suggest that given the will there’s almost no crisis that cannot be survived together.
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/ 8 December 2004
Côte d’Ivoire has demanded an independent international investigation focusing on French reprisals for an Ivorian air strike that destroyed the country’s tiny air force in early November and sparked anti-foreigner riots.
Côte d’Ivoire agrees on peace timetable
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Russian oil billionaire Roman Abramovich suffered two rare defeats on the football pitch on Tuesday as reigning champions FC Porto downed his Chelsea side 2-1 to ensure they avoided the ignominy of becoming the first titleholders to exit in the first round. Benni McCarthy’s late goal for Porto also denied the Russian a second interest in the knockout phase.
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/ 8 December 2004
Millions of Italians stopped work last Tuesday in protest at the economic policies of their government. The half-day stoppage crippled public transport and shut factories and banks. Alitalia cancelled more than 100 flights. Government departments were shut and medical staff staged an eight-hour strike.