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/ 17 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday he hopes to wrap up by the end of the week the first round of peace talks with government, opposition and rebel leaders in Côte d’Ivoire, aiming to pinpoint obstacles to implementing a peace plan. Mbeki visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
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/ 17 November 2004
The United States’s well-funded green lobby mounted an unprecedented effort to oust US president George W Bush, denouncing his environmental record as the worst in US history. Now they are reduced to hoping, against the odds, that the former oil executive will address climate change, energy security and biodiversity in his search for a lasting legacy.
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/ 17 November 2004
These are dark days in the United States, the darkest in recent memory for women’s reproductive rights. Women across the country are shuddering in their bathrobes to hear George W Bush use the word ”mandate” to describe his recent election victory. Just look at what he did when he so clearly didn’t have a mandate, back in 2000. For the first time in recent history, Roe v Wade is seriously imperilled.
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/ 17 November 2004
Dingaan ”Rose of Soweto” Thobela is not done yet. The 38-year-old fighter will fight Lucian Bute over eight rounds in the light heavyweight division in Canada on December 3. Bute (26), a novice with only eight knockout wins in as many fights, will take on the 38-year-old veteran of 54 fights.
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/ 17 November 2004
The general feeling among South Africans is that Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has his hands tied behind his back. They are referring to the withdrawal of star midfielder Steven Pienaar and defender Mbulelo Mabizela prior to the ”clash of the icons” against Nigeria for the Mandela Challenge Cup at Ellis Park Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 17 November 2004
ARVs needed: A lack of antiretroviral drugs is the biggest problem facing HIV/Aids programmes in Africa, says Robert Colebunders, a Belgian researcher at Uganda’s Mulago hospital. The United Nations says there are about 28-million HIV-positive people in Africa, but only 4% of those who need antiretrovirals receive them.
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/ 17 November 2004
The British government is to end its two-year suspension of deportations of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe because the concession has been abused, the Immigration Minister, Des Browne, announced on Tuesday. Browne insisted there had been no change in the government’s opposition to human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Zuma: SA does not take sides in Zim
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/ 17 November 2004
Cricket’s administrators have danced around the contentious issue of chucking for too long and it’s about time something was done to reform bowling laws, says New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming. Fleming, one of the sport’s most astute tacticians, said proposed changes to the rules governing bowling actions announced by the International Cricket Council this week are a step in the right direction.
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/ 17 November 2004
Second-ranked American Andy Roddick switched tactics to defeat British nemesis Tim Henman in Houston on Tuesday at the ATP Masters Cup while Lleyton Hewitt and Marat Safin beat foes returning from long layoffs. Roddick used volleys and backhands rather than his usual power serves to beat the Briton.
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/ 17 November 2004
England captain Jason Robinson has imposed a media black-out in the run-up to this weekend’s Test against South Africa because of what he sees as an ”unwarranted intrusion” into his private life. He will not be giving any interviews at all ahead of the match against the Tri-Nations champions at Twickenham on Saturday.