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/ 21 November 2004
President Thabo Mbeki hopes to travel to Côte d’Ivoire ”as quickly as possible” to meet all parties to the ongoing conflict in that country and discuss a solution. ”I want to go back very, very quickly,” Mbeki told reporters in Pretoria at the start of discussions with the leader of the rebel-held north.
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/ 21 November 2004
Two more bodies were discovered in a drain pipe on the Samrand road in Centurion on Saturday morning, bringing the total number of bodies found in the area to four, Pretoria police said. Spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said a team of detectives made the discovery when it returned to the scene to search for possible clues.
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/ 21 November 2004
When oil prices shot up above a barrel earlier this year, it was the latest signal that, finally, China is living up to its potential as one of the world’s great economic powers: when Beijing and Shanghai put their foot on the gas, the effects ripple throughout the global economy. But taking a bigger part in the world economy has its price.
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/ 21 November 2004
The British government investigated the possibility that British firms were involved in a plot to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea several weeks before last March’s attempted coup. British officials in the region took the coup threat so seriously that they rewrote contingency plans to evacuate British nationals from the Central African state.
Phone links Thatcher to alleged plot
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/ 21 November 2004
For years, psychological disorders were ignored or treated as the product of decadent foreign societies, but a flood of studies has revealed that China has some of the biggest mental health problems in the world, particularly among rural women and urban schoolchildren.
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/ 21 November 2004
The International Red Cross has made an unprecedented appeal for an end to human-rights abuses in Iraq, saying it is ”deeply concerned” at the impact of the fighting in the country and at apparent failures by all sides in the conflict to respect humanitarian laws. Saturday saw another day of violence in Fallujah and Baghdad.
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/ 21 November 2004
Pentagon hawks have begun discussing military action against Iran to neutralise its nuclear weapons threat, including possible strikes on leadership, political and security targets. Details of the emerging Pentagon thinking have come as US officials have spent the past week turning up the pressure on Iran.
Suspicion over Iran’s nuclear aims
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/ 21 November 2004
Beneath the surface calm in Côte d’Ivoire, unresolved ethnic, regional, political and religious rivalries still roil after a week of unprecedented violence. The next burst of bloodletting in a country that was long a model of peace and prosperity in Africa is likely only a matter of time, diplomats and United Nations officials warn.
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/ 21 November 2004
When their trademark black cars rolled up at British socialite Mark Thatcher’s gates in Cape Town a few months ago, the members of South Africa’s elite Scorpions unit knew they were netting their biggest catch to date. But the Scorpions have also been ruffling feathers in many other quarters of South Africa.
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/ 21 November 2004
Pandemonium broke out inside the Big Top Arena at Carnival City when angry boxing fans protested the dubious verdict that favoured Cassius Baloyi over Lehlohonolo Ledwaba. Baloyi was completely outclassed by a hungrier, determined and superbly conditioned Ledwaba.