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Escalating violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region has hindered food deliveries to several parts of the region, where displaced people are in urgent need of help, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Tuesday. Nearly 200 000 needy people have been cut off from UN assistance during the past weeks.
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/ 9 November 2004
Copper mines in mineral-rich Zambia appear to have recovered from a slump two years ago and are expected to reach record levels of about 400 000 tonnes this year, the Central Bank governor said on Tuesday. Caleb Fundanga said production figures for the first nine months of 2004 have surpassed those for the same period in 2003.
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/ 9 November 2004
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still alive and efforts are being made by his French doctors to stop the haemorrhaging of his brain, Negotiations Minister Saeb Erakat told reporters on Tuesday. A Palestinian Cabinet minister had earlier said that Arafat had passed away at the Percy military hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125273">Agreement reached over Arafat funeral</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125224">Arafat in a deeper coma</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125192">Wife locks horns with leadership</a>
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The Vatican restated the Catholic Church’s prohibition of euthanasia on Tuesday, as officials promoted use of painkilling drugs to help dying patients live out their days to a ”natural end”. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan — the pope’s leading official on health care — was responding to a question about living wills at a news conference.
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/ 9 November 2004
Gauteng still has a housing backlog of more than 440 000 people, provincial housing minister Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. Mokonyane said Gauteng’s housing goals fall within the Breaking New Ground housing-plan document introduced by Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu earlier this year.
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/ 9 November 2004
United States army and marine units pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches. Iraq’s official Sunni Muslim political party quit the US-backed government on Tuesday in protest over the assault on Fallujah.
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/ 9 November 2004
Three thousand troops of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) regular army have deployed in the country’s eastern Walungu area to stabilise a region where Rwandan rebels are active, the army said on Tuesday. Last week, the army announced it will deploy soldiers with the backing of the United Nations mission in the DRC.
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/ 9 November 2004
There was a stunned silence when Madeleen Bredenhann (29) was convicted in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday of hacking to death her mother, Elma Bredenhann, and her grandmother, Albertina (Dassie) Wambach. Judge Chris Botha said his opinion was that Bredenhann’s version must be rejected as false.
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/ 9 November 2004
The sale of Thintana’s remaining 15,1% in Telkom to an elite, government-aligned consortium is an example of an opportunity lost for broad-based empowerment and an unusually unfortunate example of crony capitalism, says shadow communications minister Dene Smuts.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&a=12&o=141486">Telkom welcomes BEE partner</a>