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/ 15 February 2004
Marco Pantani, the former Tour de France and Giro d’Italia winner who has been plagued by doping accusations and suspensions in recent years, was found dead in a Rimini residence on Saturday, Italian news reports and colleagues said. No explanation of death was provided, although news reports said it was not a violent death.
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/ 15 February 2004
Llewellyn Herbert, the South African record holder in the 400m hurdles, recorded an easy victory in an indoor race over 300m hurdles at an international meeting in Finland on Saturday. His winning time of 35,68 seconds was a second faster than the runner-up.
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/ 15 February 2004
Golden Arrows beat SuperSport United 2-0 in a Castle Premier League encounter played at Securicor Loftus on Saturday. It was United’s second loss in a row after they were beaten by Moroka Swallows at the same venue two weeks ago. Arrows opened the scoring in the fourth minute from the boot of midfielder Siphesihle Ngobese.
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/ 15 February 2004
The Hockeyroos clinched the Spar Challenge series with a 2-1 victory over South Africa in the third Test at the Tshwane University of Technology on Saturday. Although both teams were presented with red roses in honour of Valentine’s Day at the start of the match, love was not high on the agenda in a hotly contested match.
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/ 14 February 2004
After killing millions of chickens and ducks across Asia, bird flu is feared to have jumped to more exotic species, possibly killing a leopard and cranes in Thailand and pheasants in Taiwan. The disease has killed 14 people in Vietnam and five in Thailand, and still has not been controlled in several Asian countries.
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/ 14 February 2004
A British police chief has revealed the type of weapon he would most like to see officers carry in the future, it was reported on Saturday — a disabling ”phaser gun” of the sort used in television show Star Trek. The gun would be able to turn ”someone’s brain off”, he was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
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/ 14 February 2004
Rebels sharpened their attack skills and aid workers prepared for the worst as suspense grew in the bloody Haitian insurrection that has left at least 49 people dead. Roadblocks have halted most food shipments since rebels trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide seized the city of Gonaives last week.
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/ 14 February 2004
The Roman Catholic Emeritus Archbishop of Durban, Denis Eugene Hurley, died on Friday in Durban after returning from a religious celebration. At the age of 31 Hurley became the youngest Catholic bishop in the world at tht time and was hailed as a champion of human rights.
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/ 14 February 2004
The Democratic frontrunner for the United States elections, John Kerry, was on Friday on a radio talk show forced into denying an unsourced internet report that he had an affair with an intern amid signs that the race for the White House is turning into one of the most vicious in modern history.
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/ 14 February 2004
The president of the World Bank condemned the amount developed countries spend on defence on Friday, saying it was ”madness” compared with the sums committed to aid projects. ”You’d think we were mad. We are spending -trillion a year on defence,” James Wolfensohn said.