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/ 7 February 2004
Record-breaking Ernie Els appeared on his way to a third consecutive Heineken Classic title after shooting a four-under-par 68 on Saturday to hold an eight-stroke lead after three rounds at Royal Melbourne. On Saturday, Els came within a shot of his 54-hole European Tour record of 23-under 193 he set last year.
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/ 7 February 2004
Doubles specialist Jonas Bjorkman and rookie Joachim Johansson put Sweden within one win of an upset victory over Davis Cup champions Australia winning the pivotal doubles in a five-set classic at Memorial Drive in Adelaide on Saturday. Their crucial victory gave the Swedish outsiders a 2-1 edge going into Sunday’s final-day reverse singles.
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/ 7 February 2004
The rain stayed away from Kingsmead but it did not help the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins’ cause as they crashed to a 64-run defeat at the hands of Easterns on Friday. The result means that the Dolphins slumped out of contention in the Standard Bank Cup cricket tournament.
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/ 7 February 2004
Boland ended their one-day season on a high note with a thrilling victory over Free State in a Standard Bank Cup match in Paarl on Friday. On a well-grassed pitch, they made heavy weather of chasing a relatively low target. After losing the toss, Henry Williams and Ryan Groeneveld each took an early wicket.
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/ 6 February 2004
The Democratic Alliance has called for Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza to explain chief land claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya’s statement that the government is considering a six-month extension for land claims in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 6 February 2004
Twenty people were still missing from a camp for displaced people in northern Uganda’s Lira district on Friday, two days after about 50 people there were killed during an attack by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, officials said. About 300 LRA fighters attacked Abia camp, near the northern town of Lira, on Wednesday evening.
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/ 6 February 2004
An armed opposition group seized control of Haiti’s fourth-largest city in clashes that killed at least four people, while the government vowed to restore order. Members of the Gonaives Resistance Front on Thursday set fire to the mayor’s home in Gonaives, then doused the police station with fuel, lighting it while officers fled.
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/ 6 February 2004
Five alleged perpetrators of the world’s biggest advance-fee fraud scam were taken before a Nigerian High Court on Thursday charged with 86 counts of duping a Brazilian bank out of -million. Emmanuel Nwude, former director of Union Bank, a top-rated bank in Nigeria, led the accused, who all pleaded not guilty.
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/ 6 February 2004
Pigs in Vietnam have tested positive for the bird-flu virus that has infected millions of chickens and ducks across Asia and killed 18 people, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation said on Friday. However, some experts cautioned the tests were not conclusive and that it was too early to start talking about culling swine.