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/ 24 November 2004
Bayern Munich eased into the last sixteen of the Champions League with a resounding 5-1 win over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Munich on Tuesday. Ajax’s 1-0 defeat to Juventus in Turin means Bayern finish runners-up in Group C behind the Italians and the Bundesliga leaders can now plan for the knockout phase.
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/ 24 November 2004
South African flanker Schalk Burger got quick consolation for being dropped from the Springboks side for Saturday’s test with Scotland by picking up two major international awards on Tuesday. The 21-year-old collected the Investec international players’ player of the year award and international newcomer honours at a ceremony in London.
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/ 23 November 2004
Thousands of United States, British and Iraqi troops swept through insurgent bastions south of Baghdad on Tuesday in the latest push to reclaim lawless enclaves ahead of elections planned for January. The operation, in an area known as the ”triangle of death”, came as world powers and Middle Eastern states meeting in Egypt threw their weight behind the war-torn country’s first free and multi-party elections in decades.
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/ 23 November 2004
She only wanted her ex-husband hijacked so she could have a few days peace, bank consultant Juanita Coetzee testified on Tuesday in the Johannesburg High Court, where she is on trial for his murder. Ivan Coetzee (her second husband) was stabbed in his arm in the botched hijacking, but was later shot dead when he entered the Westonaria home he and his ex-wife still shared.
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/ 23 November 2004
Fikile Mbalula is the newly elected president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He is 33 years old and has high ambitions for himself, the country and the world. The Mail & Guardian Online spoke with him in his office on the seventh floor of Albert Luthuli House in downtown Johannesburg.
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/ 23 November 2004
Former United States president Jimmy Carter will lead a delegation of foreign observers monitoring elections next week in Mozambique that will mark the end of President Joaquim Chissano’s 18-year rule, officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 November 2004
Without urgent action ”the world is unlikely to gain the upper hand over Aids”, two UN agencies warned on Tuesday. New data shows nearly 40 million people now have HIV and over three million will die of Aids this year, the highest toll in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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/ 23 November 2004
Colin Powell, the United States secretary of state, won an assurance from Israel on Monday that it would ease its grip on the occupied territories and allow greater freedom of movement before the Palestinian presidential election in January. But Powell disappointed the Palestinian leadership by declining to press an array of other issues, including the continued expansion of Jewish settlements.
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/ 23 November 2004
A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for  000 (R168 ,468 ) on eBay. GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend ”as much as it took” to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.