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/ 18 January 2004
Human rights activists in Zambia scored another victory recently when they got Parliament to outlaw corporal punishment in the country. Legal Affairs Minister George Kunda said corporal punishment went against constitutional provisions. But not all teachers are happy with the ruling.
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/ 18 January 2004
Thousands of people had to be evacuated from parts of Australia’s eastern states of New South Wales and Queensland at the weekend after days of torrential rain turned drought into floods, officials said on Sunday. The New South Wales state government on Sunday declared three districts natural disaster zones.
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/ 18 January 2004
The death toll in the building collapse at a construction site in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, has risen to three after the body of a missing man was found on Sunday morning, the city’s emergency services said. Two people were killed instantly and two were seriously injured after a wall collapsed at the site on Sunday morning.
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/ 18 January 2004
It could be the moment one of Hollywood’s last great taboos is broken: a sex scene between two hot young male actors. Finally, it seems, gay relationships are about to go mainstream at the movies. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are lined up to play star-crossed cowboy lovers in director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.
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/ 18 January 2004
Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by security agencies. In a terrorist manual published on the internet, Osama bin Laden says: ”After Iraq and Afghanistan will come the crusader invasion of Saudi Arabia. All fighters all over the world must be ready.”
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/ 18 January 2004
A powerful car bomb ripped the main gate to the headquarters of the United States-led coalition in Iraq on Sunday morning, killing at least 23 and injuring at least 95 among the large number of people lined up for work inside the Baghdad compound. The car bomb was a suicide bombing, a coalition spokesperson confirmed.
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/ 18 January 2004
A statement issued by the African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday claimed that the ANC had been informed by "reliable sources at Ulundi" that there will be a "stage-managed so-called defection of (bogus) ANC members to the IFP [Inkatha Freedom Party] tomorrow (Sunday) at its (IFP) manifesto launch at Lindelani in Durban".
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/ 18 January 2004
The 75-year-old water-sharing treaty that has kept Nile basin countries from warring over the region’s most precious resource is in jeopardy as East African signatories consider pulling out. The 1929 Nile Basin Treaty regulates Nile water usage by the 10 countries that share the river’s watershed.
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/ 18 January 2004
South African batsman Jacques Kallis’s extraordinary capacity to score a glut of runs against the West Indies continued unabated on Saturday as he reached his fourth consecutive Test century and moved within a breath of shattering a 93-year-old record.
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/ 18 January 2004
An unidentified person burned to death and 1 500 shacks were destroyed in a fire in the Was-‘n-bietjie and New Town informal settlements in Lwandle near the Strand, Western Cape police said on Sunday morning. Captain Eugene Sitzer said the fire broke out at about 3.40am on Sunday morning.