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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
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
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
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
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.
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/ 25 October 2004
Tanzania’s first-ever machine for rapid analysis of multiple DNA samples has been welcomed by scientists, who say it will revolutionise their research. Until now, researchers have had to perform a manual analysis that takes 72 hours for a single sample, take a bus to a neighbouring country, or a plane to a First World country.
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/ 25 October 2004
For four decades, Japan’s high-speed ”bullet” trains have moved millions of people through this earthquake-prone nation efficiently, at high speed and without a single derailment — until now. The 6,8-magnitude quake that ravaged northern Japan on Saturday knocked the Toki No 325 bullet train off its tracks.
Japan in shock after earthquake
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/ 25 October 2004
General Bantu Holomisa’s United Democratic Movement says Deputy President Jacob Zuma should ”vacate” his position and thereafter he should be prosecuted. At the party’s national council in Pretoria at the weekend, the party passed a resolution noting the trial of Zuma’s business adviser Schabir Shaik.
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/ 25 October 2004
World number-six gold miner Harmony on Monday announced a headline loss per share of 110 cents for the September quarter, from a loss of 131 cents in the June quarter. Harmony also reported a basic loss per share of 106 cents in the September quarter, from a loss of 191 cents in the June quarter.