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/ 10 November 2003
Mauritanian police arrested top opposition presidential candidate Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah for a second time on Sunday on suspicion of planning a coup following the re-election of longtime leader Maaouiya Ould Taya.
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/ 10 November 2003
Nissan South Africa has started the process of identifying customers affected by a global recall campaign on some X-TRAIL and Almera models. The offending component is a rotating sensor.
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/ 10 November 2003
The battered body of an 11-year-old girl kidnapped on Saturday was found close to a Johannesburg mine dump on Sunday, police reported. Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said the girl, Tina Benade, was reported missing from Jeppestown on Saturday.
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/ 10 November 2003
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is consulting with its lawyers after City Press newspaper said on Sunday the agency was the source of evidence for spy allegations against the National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 10 November 2003
In the small town of Opelousas, Louisiana, two Catholic churches sit side by side. There is the Holy Ghost, for African Americans, and St Landry, for whites. In between is the cemetery where, by law and then by custom, people of the same faith have been buried separately according to their race.
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/ 10 November 2003
Fears were growing on Sunday night that a bombing which killed at least 17 people in Saudi Arabia could herald a new wave of attacks by al-Qaeda sympathisers throughout the Middle East. Anonymous postings on Arabic websites over the last three to four weeks have hinted at ”a wave of violence coming on quite a big scale”.
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/ 10 November 2003
The Very Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, bebop-quiffed Archbishop of Cape Town, has been the only native bishop to welcome the gay and humble Gene Robinson to the ranks of primates of the Anglican Church. He has cautioned the dark-skinned heirs of the missionary tradition up and down the continent and across the globe to show Christian charity.
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/ 10 November 2003
Ugly can sometimes be good. Neither Winston Churchill or Mother Theresa would have won any design contests, but both managed to get the job done a helluva lot better than most. Fiat’s Multipla falls into the same category. This car just has to be the ugliest sunovabitch built, ever.
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/ 10 November 2003
Clearly New Zealand and France are headed for the World Cup final on November 22. It is written in the stars, for the stars, by the stars. Australia and England, whose stars are falling fast, will have to scrabble about in one of those awful third/fourth play-off games on the Thursday before the final.
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/ 10 November 2003
The Irish, armed only with Guiness and hope, turned up in their thousands (unlike the Aussies and French, there were 15 000 unsold tickets) to see what was supposed to be the closest of the four quarter-finals yesterday. But, alas, the Irish looked much like South Africa during their defeat against the All Blacks the night before.