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Women in India, home to the world’s second-largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to Aids.
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An express bus driver on drugs took eight terror-stricken passengers along on a half-hour high-speed police chase in Malaysia’s northern Terengganu state, a report said on Wednesday. The driver, who roared off after being flagged down in a routine speed trap, rammed one of the two police cars chasing his bus in an attempt to run it off the road.
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Germany’s former chancellor Helmut Kohl on Tuesday admitted that 15 years after the demise of the Berlin Wall the divisions between East and West Germany ran ”much deeper” than he had originally anticipated. Speaking on the anniversary of the wall’s fall on November 9 1989, Kohl said that Germans had ”every reason to be proud” of their country.
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The state produced a surprise witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial under way in the Durban High Court on Wednesday. A chief police inspector, Pierre Coret, from Mauritius, has taken the stand and is testifying about the two counts of corruption against Shaik with the aid of a French translator.
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/ 10 November 2004
Defence contractor Northrop Grumman and Boeing said on Tuesday they will bid as a team to compete for Nasa’s planned manned and robotic space exploration programme. The two companies say they will start with a joint bid for the crew exploration vehicle, the first phase of ”Project Constellation,” which is designed to explore the moon and travel to Mars.
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A softer rand saw the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) soar to yet another fresh high on Wednesday, continuing Tuesday’s record-breaking run achieved in the wake of technical glitches that halted trading for more than two hours. On Tuesday, the all-share, industrial, banks and financial indices touched record highs.
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Malaria claims about 20 000 lives each year in Angola, more than half of them pregnant women and children under five years old, making it the main cause of death in the south-west African state. Angola’s director of programmes to fight malaria told Portuguese radio the mosquito-borne disease infects more than two million people each year.
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Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change lawmaker Roy Bennett applied to the High Court on Wednesday for bail. He was sentenced by a parliamentary committee to 15 months’ hard labour, with three months suspended, for pushing Zanu-PF Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to the ground.
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Britain could be asked to contribute troops to a 10 000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force for Sudan under a draft resolution being discussed in the security council. The proposal for a UN force is part of a British package of incentives designed to gain Sudan’s agreement to a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Darfur, in western Sudan.
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From the outside, Beijing’s Shishahai sports school is unremarkable. It would be easy to walk past it, a functional-looking building a couple of kilometres north of Tiananmen square, without even noticing. Inside the main entrance, in the gloomy hall, the first thing you see is the noticeboard, on to which the pictures of five athletes have been pinned.