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/ 11 November 2004
For the dozens of Palestinian orphans that Yasser Arafat adopted, brought up and indulged, his demise in a Paris hospital was a very personal torment, as they look back on a blissful childhood. Without ever signing official adoption papers, the veteran leader took personal charge of about 66 children, most of them left parentless after the massacres of the Palestinian camps of Tall Zaatar, and Sabra and Chatilla.
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/ 11 November 2004
A New Zealand wine company is to launch a new wine labelled Pansy which is aimed at Australia’s gay community, the company said on Thursday. Kim Crawford Wines said the Sydney gay community drinks about 4,5-million New Zealand dollars’ (,1-million) worth of wine a month.
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/ 11 November 2004
After Wednesday’s pullback from record highs, the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) remained strong at midday on Thursday, led by gains for the gold-mining sector and resources. There were also good gains for industrials. On Wednesday, the all-share and industrial indices reached record highs.
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/ 11 November 2004
With the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lost his closest enemy, whom he chased, hated and finally isolated for three years in Ramallah. For Sharon, Arafat never qualified as a sufficiently credible Palestinian partner with whom he could bring a peace agreement to fruition.
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/ 11 November 2004
Seventy people were left homeless and a toddler was killed when fire spread through shacks in KwaDabeka near Pinetown on Wednesday. Sanele Mene, 13 months old, burnt to death when he wandered into his family’s shack soon after it was set alight by a toppled paraffin stove.
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/ 11 November 2004
Zimbabweans living abroad will not be allowed to vote because ruling Zanu-PF Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa says the country’s Constitution bars them. He also said the registration of voters living in foreign countries is impossible because of a ban on senior Zanu-PF members from travelling to Western nations.
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/ 11 November 2004
Thousands of hawkers handed over a memorandum to Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo’s office on Thursday, demanding an end to the confiscation of their goods in the inner city. The protest march was also intended to introduce the new Johannesburg Traders’ Alliance to the mayor.
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/ 11 November 2004
Yasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people’s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died on Thursday at age 75. He was to the end a man of many mysteries and paradoxes — terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.
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/ 11 November 2004
World leaders reacted to the death on Thursday of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by accepting him as a symbol of his people’s cause, but differed sharply over his contribution to the Middle East peace process. They united, however, in calling for an end to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict via a peace settlement that would include the creation of an independent Palestinian state.