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/ 11 October 2004
The Joint Municipal Pension Fund (JMPF) said on Monday it will seek to recover its full R1,4-billion loss suffered due to investments made by WJ Morgan & Associates, on behalf of the fund, in agricultural futures during December 2002 and January 2003. Due to the loss, the JMPF has reduced certain benefits of its active members and pensioners.
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/ 11 October 2004
It comes with its own ballroom, nine bedrooms, four terraces, heated marble floors and an address on the swankiest street in the most glamorous city in the world. New York’s most expensive apartment is about to go on the market for -million.
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/ 11 October 2004
A sunny day in Rome. A table in the open with its own umbrella. A plate of pasta, a glass of wine, and a view of one of Europe’s most glorious monuments. The only problem is no one else will be able glimpse more than fragments of the monument because of all the other open-air tables, each with its own huge umbrella and bevy of customers.
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/ 11 October 2004
Spiders, cockroaches and other creepy crawlies scare the British more than the threat of a terrorist attack, suggests an opinion poll released on Monday by a Hollywood studio. The poll of 1 000 adults, conducted at 65 locations around the nation, put insects at the top of Britain’s most-feared list.
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/ 11 October 2004
Christopher Reeve, the star of the Superman movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52. Reeve fell into a coma on Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home and died on Sunday.
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/ 11 October 2004
Ken Bigley said he only wanted to live ”a simple life” moments before he was murdered by the Islamist militants who held him captive for three weeks, it emerged on Sunday. Although he clearly realised he did not have long to live, Bigley appeared calm as he addressed the prime minister in a video posted on a website yesterday: ”Here I am again, Mr Blair… very, very close to the end of my life.
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/ 11 October 2004
The contest for the White House was locked in a dead heat on Sunday, with Republican and Democratic strategists looking to the third and last debate to score the convincing victory that could alter the dynamics of the race. With just three weeks until voting day, the gap between United States President George Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry has narrowed significantly.
US presidential race back in balance
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/ 11 October 2004
An unexplained and unprecedented rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere two years running has raised fears that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming. Scientists are baffled why the quantity of the main greenhouse gas has leapt in a two-year period and are concerned that the Earth’s natural systems are no longer able to absorb as much as in the past.
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/ 11 October 2004
Egyptian security forces investigating the resort bombings that killed at least 33 people were concentrating their hunt on Sunday on a group of previously unknown Egyptian militants. An Egyptian security official involved in the search conceded that ”the perpetrators are Egyptians”, but added that they had ”help from someone outside”.
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/ 11 October 2004
Members of Somalia’s transitional Parliament elected former army officer Abdullahi Yusuf as interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, the Parliament speaker said. The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, that has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991.