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/ 25 November 2004
An Irish Catholic priest was found murdered on Thursday at his parish in Ngong, southwest of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police and church sources said. ”Last night around midnight, a group of 10 to 20 gangsters armed with crude weapons invaded the residence of Father John Francis Hannon at Upper Matasia in Ngong and murdered him,” a police statement said.
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/ 25 November 2004
A mysterious carved code at a British manor house, which has defied understanding for hundreds of years, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, the Priory of Sion, experts said on Thursday. The marble tablet, commissioned in 1748, features a carved image with the letters ”DOUOSVAVVM” underneath.
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/ 25 November 2004
Fewer than 10 people have died and 50 injured in pre-election violence in Mozambique, according to an election official who said on Thursday that the toll showed a ”more peaceful” climate than in previous elections. Voters in Mozambique will go to the polls on December 1 and 2 to choose a successor to President Joaquim Chissano, who is stepping down after 18 years in power.
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/ 25 November 2004
On Thursday the 16 Days of Action Against Violence campaign was launched — a. campaign aimed at raising awareness about violence against women and children. This year it is campaigning in cyberspace by holding daily online chat sessions that can joined nationwide.
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/ 25 November 2004
Ukraine split into two geographic camps on Thursday as the nationalist west backed the pro-Western opposition leader as president, while the Russian-speaking east supported the disputed victory of the prime minister. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has warned that the sudden polarisation has put the country ”on the verge of civil conflict”.
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/ 25 November 2004
Five Arab foreign fighters who had escaped from Fallujah were arrested near the southern port city of Basra, where they were planning to attack coalition bases and police stations, authorities said on Thursday. In Fallujah, the United States military said it had uncovered the largest arms cache yet.
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/ 25 November 2004
The Congress of SA Trade Unions plans to revisit Zimbabwe in January after last month’s ill-fated fact-finding mission, the federation said on Thursday. Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu’s general secretary, said Zimbabwe’s government had misunderstood the purpose of the mission, and exposed its paranoia and fear when it expelled Cosatu’s 13-member team from Harare on October 26.
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/ 25 November 2004
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told textile workers on Thursday that foreign-exchange matters were critical to understanding the future of the textile industry. He said one of the realities was that the fundamentals of the United States (US) economy were out of kilter. The US was "importing more than it’s exporting" and the inevitable consequence of this was the devaluation of the dollar.
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/ 25 November 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) and the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) both won three of eight contested municipal by-elections held on Wednesday – with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) retaining two seats it previously had held.
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/ 25 November 2004
One woman facing abuse and rape is one too many. Using this benchmark, the road ahead of us is long and it will take many years to eradicate the scourge. But as the 2004 Sixteen Days of Activism, devoted to ending gender violence, begins, we choose to highlight the ‘sheroes’ who have used the political space of the past 10 years to begin to make inroads into the crippling rates of rape and abuse that still bedevil South African men and women.