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/ 25 October 2004
Typhoon Nock-ten lashed northern Taiwan with powerful winds and driving rain on Monday, disrupting international flights and closing financial markets, schools and government offices. Flash flooding killed three people, including a television cameraman and a firefighter. The typhoon’s eye passed just north of the capital, Taipei.
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/ 25 October 2004
Several hundred tonnes of conventional explosives are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that once played a key role in Saddam Hussein’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb, the United Nations nuclear agency confirmed on Monday. The explosives include HMX and RDX, which can be used to demolish buildings and down jetliners.
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/ 25 October 2004
A deer hunter in Wisconsin is marketing a new type of chewing gum he claims can mask human-smelling breath and help hunters move closer to their prey. Neil Bretl says his Gum-o-Flage helps fool the animals’ hypersensitive noses to human scent.
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/ 25 October 2004
Provision of anti-retroviral therapy to people living with HIV/Aids in Botswana is progressing at a steady rate, resulting in fewer deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. ”The overall mortality of patients on treatment is less than 10%,” says a report compiled by Botswana’s Health Ministry and WHO experts.
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/ 25 October 2004
Sudanese government envoys and the leaders of a rebellion in the western province of Darfur opened formal peace negotiations on Monday at an African Union-sponsored conference in Abuja. AU special envoy Hamid Algabid welcomed the delegates to the conference venue in the Nigerian capital before the start of closed-door talks.
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/ 25 October 2004
Newly elected Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday asked the African Union to deploy up to 20 000 troops in his country to help disarm tens of thousands of factional fighters and restore stability to a state devastated by more than a decade of lawlessness.
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/ 25 October 2004
A 22-year-old Malaysian electronic engineer has claimed a national record for running backwards, saying he ”wanted to do something meaningful in life”. S Moganasundar won a place in the popular Malaysia Book of Records after running backwards for 30km, the official Bernama news agency reported on Monday.
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/ 25 October 2004
Three Iraqis were killed and 15 people wounded, including two Australian soldiers, when a car bomb exploded on Monday near an Australian army convoy in Baghdad. Meanwhile, two car bombs rocked Mosul on Monday, with one person killed in an attack on a local government building.
Massacre of 50 Iraqi soldiers
Plea for Iraq kidnap clues
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/ 25 October 2004
The most important issue that Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel should address in his medium-term Budget policy statement — to be delivered in Parliament on Tuesday afternoon — is economic growth, says South Africa’s opposition leader Tony Leon.