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At least four people were killed and two wounded on Sunday in an early-morning rocket or mortar attack near the Oil Ministry in the Iraqi capital, according to medical sources, police and an AFP correspondent at the scene. The heavily fortified Oil Ministry building is the target of frequent mortar and missile attacks by insurgents.
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/ 10 October 2004
An Israeli aircraft fired a missile on Sunday at a Palestinian house in a Hamas stronghold in Gaza’s Jebaliya refugee camp, killing at least one person, witnesses and rescue workers said. One 28-year-old Palestinian civilian was killed, hospital officials said. Three others, including a girl, were wounded.
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/ 10 October 2004
Rescuers in India’s flood-ravaged north-east have recovered a further 37 bodies, taking the death toll in flash floods and landslides in the region to 157 in the past five days, an official said on Sunday. Weather officials said the deluge was the worst in a decade to soak the region outside of a monsoon period.
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/ 10 October 2004
One in three South Africans believes that Deputy President Jacob Zuma is innocent of allegations of fraud related to the arms deal, while one in five believes he is linked to corruption in some way, a new Markinor survey has found. The survey showed that 34% of South Africans ”strongly agreed” Zuma is innocent of the allegations of corruption.
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/ 10 October 2004
At least 10 children were raped in Mpumalanga in a space of four days, police reported on Saturday. Among them was an eight-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her stepfather (21) at the Emjidini hostel near Barberton, and a 12-year-old boy who was indecently assaulted by a 63-year-old man.
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/ 10 October 2004
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party held on to a parliamentary seat, winning a by-election by default after the main opposition party boycotted the poll to demand electoral reforms, election officials said on Saturday. Zanu-PF candidate Walter Mzembi was declared the unopposed winner of the by-election in the Masvingo district.
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/ 10 October 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Saturday warned that knowledge of Aids could lead to people becoming complacent and expecting infection. Speaking at a function marking the sixth anniversary of the launch of the Partnership against Aids, Zuma said there is a danger that people will take Aids as a ”given”.
A third of SA thinks Zuma is innocent
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Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza handed over land to four communities in Limpopo on Saturday, according to a television news report. The report said the Koka Matlou, Mabjaneng, Legata and Lebelo communities were forcibly removed from their lands in the 1800s.
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/ 10 October 2004
Scientists are developing techniques aimed at taming the power of the world’s most devastating storms. The project, backed by funds from Nasa, would involve seeding clouds, coating seas with biodegradable ”slicks” and even beaming microwave radiation from orbiting power stations to slow or even halt hurricanes.
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/ 10 October 2004
We know, in horrible detail, how it is done. In the case of Ken Bigley, we will soon be able to view the act in video clips on the internet. With the bombing in the Egyptian resort of Taba on Thursday, we know, from eyewitnesses, of the smiles of the suicide bombers as they blew apart holiday-makers. What we are still asking is: ”Why?”