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/ 11 November 2004
If you’re concerned about cancer, skip the braai but enjoy the biltong, say researchers at the University of the Free State. In a paper published in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal, they have described the results of a battery of tests on nine volunteers fed a biltong-enriched diet over five days.
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/ 11 November 2004
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has promised an independent inquiry into an escape attempt from the C-Max prison in Pretoria on Sunday in which two officials were killed. Speaking at a memorial service on Thursday for the two men, Balfour also proposed periodic security checks of guards and electronic monitoring equipment.
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/ 11 November 2004
Burundi’s dominant ethnic Tutsi party on Thursday asked President Dominitien Ndayizeye to name an ally of a former military ruler as the new vice-president in line with the country’s fragile power-sharing agreement, officials said. Other political parties representing the Tutsi minority also want the vice-presidency.
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/ 11 November 2004
A Nigerian court has rejected a bid by a former security chief to stop his trial for the attempted murder of a newspaper publisher and former minister in 1996, court officials said on Thursday. The trial, which has been adjourned several times, has made little progress because of legal technicalities raised by the defence.
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/ 11 November 2004
Rwandan lawmakers are studying a Bill that accuses France of ”misunderstanding and downplaying” the 1994 genocide in which, according to Kigali, about one million people, mostly minority Tutsis, were killed. The draft law paves the way for the creation of a commission to examine France’s role in the 100-day killing spree.
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/ 11 November 2004
United States marines and Iraqi troops occupied about three-quarters of Fallujah on Thursday, but were facing an enormous task in rooting out determined insurgents, many of whom appeared to have gone underground. It was unclear how many insurgents died in the battle. In the dusty streets, cats fed off the corpses.
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/ 11 November 2004
Israel on Thursday imposed a major clampdown on the occupied territories after Yasser Arafat’s death due to fears of attacks as armed militants loyal to the veteran Palestinian leader vowed to avenge his passing. Immediately following the announcement early on Thursday that Arafat had died in a French hospital, the Israeli army began deploying reinforcements around towns and Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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/ 11 November 2004
Democratic Alliance Western Cape chairperson Kent Morkel says a claim that he took a bribe is "utter nonsense". Micro-loan provider Gilt Edged Management Services on Wednesday agreed to pay R65-million in fines and compensation on two counts of corruption, one of which involved an alleged R10 000 bribe to Morkel.
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/ 11 November 2004
Murderers, thieves and Taliban militants line the gloomy corridors of Kandahar prison, a foul-smelling jail in southern Afghanistan’s main city. But not every inmate is guilty. Muhammad and Sadiqa, a pair of star-crossed teenagers, are locked into grubby cells in separate wings of the prison. Their crime was to fall in love.
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/ 11 November 2004
A 62-year-old Sunninghill man — accused of sodomising and filming three Diepsloot boys — was arrested on Wednesday evening in a police trap, detectives said on Thursday. Pretoria police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said the man was arrested on the old Muldersdrift Road by members of the family violence and sexual offences unit at 6.45pm.