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The World Bank has approved -million for programmes aimed at reducing poverty and improving the road network in Uganda, the bank said in a statement on Monday. ”The project will help rehabilitate or upgrade a total of 830km of national roads, and improve or rehabilitate 1 300km of district roads,” the statement said.
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/ 6 September 2004
Disney on Monday dismissed claims that its new Hong Kong theme park will only have enough activities to keep visitors occupied for four hours, saying it will offer a full day of fun. The company described as ”unfounded” a report in the satirical magazine Spike, which said there are concerns over the park having only one major ride.
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/ 6 September 2004
Russian television on Monday paraded what officials said was the only suspected hostage-taker still alive of the gang who held 1 000 children and adults in a school in southern Russia for three days. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday welcomed Israel’s offer of help in combating militant groups.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=121696">Frantic search for missing in Beslan</a>
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Typhoon Songda had injured 21 people by Monday morning as it approached the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, officials said. Songda, named after a Vietnamese river, came as the meteorological agency warned that another typhoon, Sarika, was on course to approach Japan this week.
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/ 6 September 2004
Tropical Storm Frances killed two as it crossed Florida, authorities said early on Monday, as yet another hurricane loomed in the far distance. Frances, which was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday, was over the Gulf of Mexico and heading toward the Florida panhandle at 6am local time on Monday.
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Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6,9 and 7,4 hit cental and western Japan on Sunday night, injuring at least 46 people and forcing more than 9Â 000 people to evacuate temporarily due to the danger of tidal waves, police and firefighters said on Monday. People in 10 prefectures were affected by the two quakes.
Typhoon batters Japan
Torrential rain kills scores in China
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/ 6 September 2004
It was an inelegant intruder on a sunny afternoon: a chunk of ice from a jetliner toilet that broke free and slammed into an Austrian family’s garden. No one was injured when the ice tumbled from the sky on Sunday afternoon in Graz, about 200km south of Vienna, authorities said.
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/ 6 September 2004
Confusion reigned on Monday over the fate of Saddam Hussein’s long-time right-hand man, following conflicting claims by Iraqi government and security officials over the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. Meanwhile, a Turkish truck driver was reportedly released after his employer promised to stop its business in Iraq.
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General Colin Powell is missing in action. At the Republican convention in 2000 he led from the front, opening a line up that could have been set up by Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow coalition. Of the three co-chairs in 2000 one was black and another Hispanic; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice kicked off prime-time coverage one night while Chaka Khan serenaded George Bush.
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The death toll in an explosion at Sasol’s ethylene plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga, has climbed to seven, company spokesperson Johann van Rheede said on Monday. The explosion, which occurred last Wednesday, claimed the lives of four contractors and two Sasol employees. More than 100 people were injured.