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/ 20 September 2004
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is being warned that North American bishops will cut off funds from the Anglican church in Africa if they are disciplined for supporting the election of a gay bishop, in a row which threatens to split the worldwide church.
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/ 20 September 2004
Last-ditch attempts to save the life of a British man being held hostage by Iraqi militants were under way on Sunday night as a deadline set by his kidnappers loomed. The families of Kenneth Bigley and the two Americans being held with him begged the kidnappers not to carry out a threat to execute the men when the deadline was reached in the early hours on Monday morning.
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/ 20 September 2004
The United Nations atomic agency’s call on Iran to suspend fully uranium enrichment goes against the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a senior Iranian official said in Vienna on Monday. Uranium enrichment is not banned by the NPT, Iranian atomic energy chief Reza Aghazadeh said.
Iran threatens to halt UN access
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/ 20 September 2004
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has called for an end to the management failures and ”lunacy” in the country’s public sector, saying the finances channelled to government have to be translated into concrete improvements in poverty, education and services.
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/ 20 September 2004
The government was finalising a multi-million rand aviation security plan, which would provide resources to secure airports around the country, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe confirmed on Monday. ”We [the government] are in the final stages of finalising the national aviation security plan,” and the plan would be put into effect ”as soon as possible”.
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/ 20 September 2004
South Africa continued its record performance to become one of the fastest-growing payment-card countries in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (Cemea) region in the year to the end of June, Visa International Cemea announced on Monday. South Africa witnessed exceptional growth on all key parameters.
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/ 20 September 2004
Mark Thatcher has won a reprieve from a South African court order that he testify under oath about his alleged involvement in a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, his lawyer said on Monday. State prosecutors have asked a Cape Town court to delay the testimony scheduled for Wednesday, when the son of a British former prime minister was to answer questions put to him by the Malabo goverment.
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/ 20 September 2004
A Harare judge on Monday dismissed charges against four directors of the banned independent Daily News newspaper, citing insufficient evidence. CEO Samuel Nkomo and three directors were arrested in October on charges of illegally publishing the newspaper under provisions of Zimbabwe’s strict media laws.
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/ 20 September 2004
Tropical Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwaters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people in the battered nation and leaving dozens of Haitian families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said. Floods tore through the north-western coastal town of Gonaives and surrounding areas.
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/ 20 September 2004
About 500 residents of Zamani in Memel were blocking the access road to the township in protest over service delivery, eastern Free State police said on Monday morning. Captain Veronica Ntepe said schoolchildren were among the protesters. The group were using old car wrecks and dustbins to block the road.