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/ 10 October 2004
Sudan’s government pledged on Saturday to cooperate with a United Nations panel set up to determine whether genocide has taken place in the troubled region of Darfur where thousands of people have been killed during a 19-month-old revolt. Sudan has consistently been accused of obstructing aid and efforts to resolve the crisis in Darfur.
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/ 10 October 2004
More than 1 000 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugees were still stuck on Saturday night in a strip of no man’s land between their country and neighbouring Burundi, despite promises by a DRC official that they would be allowed home. Civilians on the DRC side of the border erected barricades on Saturday.
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/ 10 October 2004
An overweight elephant in the Anchorage zoo — the only of its species in the northernmost American state — will soon have her own personal training apparatus to help her shed kilos. The zoo is investing up to 000 dollars to build a custom elephant treadmill.
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/ 10 October 2004
The lone bus belonging to a mom-and-pop tour operator careened off an interstate and overturned on Saturday, killing 15 Chicago-area travellers on their way to a Mississippi casino. Some of the dead were found crushed beneath the bus after wrecker crews pulled it upright, state police spokesperson Bill Sadler said.
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/ 10 October 2004
A Hong Kong golf club said on Sunday it may be forced to shut down temporarily its two 18-hole courses because of an invasion of wild boars. A marauding band of about 20 boars, some of them weighing up to 180kg, are digging up the fairways on the two public courses on Kau Sai Chau island, east of Hong Kong.
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/ 10 October 2004
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.