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/ 20 November 2004
President Sam Nujoma’s chosen successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, won an overwhelming victory in elections in Namibia, garnering more than 77% of the vote, results from more than half of counted ballots showed on Friday. Pohamba is to become Namibia’s second president since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.
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/ 20 November 2004
Alan Greenspan, United States Federal Reserve chairperson, on Friday gave the dollar a further push lower as he said the huge US current-account deficit threatens to scare off foreign investors. His comments followed remarks from the US Treasury Secretary, John Snow, that poured cold water on the idea of intervention to support the greenback.
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/ 20 November 2004
New evidence has emerged in South Africa linking Mark Thatcher directly to the alleged coup plotters against the West African oil state of Equatorial Guinea. Lawyers acting for one of the alleged British-led plotters, Greg Wales, on Friday night tried to prevent publication of the information.
Thatcher charged in alleged coup plot
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/ 20 November 2004
Tourists descend on the Turkish town of Canakkale to gawp at the Hollywood star — a 12-tonne fibreglass horse, held together with bolts, ropes and nails, which dominates the seafront. It was a gift from Warner Brothers and a small consolation for the fact that Troy, the -million blockbuster starring Brad Pitt, was not made in Turkey.
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/ 20 November 2004
For most Germans, its demise was regrettable. But three years after the Deutschmark was abolished, the currency is to make a surprise comeback in the run-up to Christmas. The move has less to do with nostalgia and more to do with hard-headed economics.
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/ 20 November 2004
Official condemnation of the racist barracking suffered by England footballers in Spain this week cannot hide the fact that xenophobia is on the rise in a country now Europe’s biggest magnet for immigrants, Spanish anti-racism campaigners warned on Friday.
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/ 20 November 2004
A police raid on a suspected child-sex operation in Benoni found a three-year-old boy being held hostage, and an under-age girl being pimped out for sex, police said on Friday. Four more men were arrested, one of whom was caught in the act of having sex with the 15-year-old girl, said a member of the Gauteng child protection unit.
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/ 20 November 2004
War, they say, is 95% boredom and 5% terror, and for the men of the Black Watch, even the latter is beginning to feel routine. Nearly three weeks since the Scottish regiment arrived at Camp Dogwood in Iraq, rockets and mortars have fallen inside their bleak and uncomfortable base almost every day.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125890">US, Iraqi forces raid mosque</a>
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/ 20 November 2004
A breakthrough deal between Iran and the European Union aimed at defusing an international crisis over Tehran’s alleged nuclear ambitions was thrown into uncertainty on Friday night when diplomats said Iran is rushing to process feed material for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125762">Iran denies secret nuclear site</a>
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/ 20 November 2004
Roland Schoeman, who spearheaded the relay team to a world-record gold at the Athens Olympics, was in super mode with a South African short-course record of 47,12 seconds in the 100m freestyle at the Fina World Cup in Durban on Friday night. ”Swimming’s got to be better than rugby and cricket for South Africans right now,” grinned Schoeman.