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/ 11 November 2003
The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter — the warhorse in the United States’s operations in Iraq — the weekend before last highlighted the threat of the sizeable quantities of missiles in the country falling into the hands of opposition groups using guerrilla tactics.
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/ 11 November 2003
While it has become something of a ritual for the festive season to coincide with Springbok coach culling season, there is good reason to believe that despite all evidence to the contrary Rudolf Straeuli will still be national coach when the new international season starts in June next year.
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/ 11 November 2003
New Zealand coach John Mitchell said in Melbourne on Tuesday that only an improved performance by his tournament favourites would see them defeat reigning champions Australia in this weekend’s World Cup semifinal. ”We … will never underestimate an Australian side,” he said.
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/ 11 November 2003
Kim Clijsters won the -million WTA Tour Championships on Monday, dominating France’s Amelie Mauresmo 6-2, 6-0 to defend the title she won in Los Angeles last year. While Clijsters won’t finish the year as world number one, she had the satisfaction of wrapping up 2003 with her ninth title of the year.
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/ 11 November 2003
Even by mind-boggling African election standards, last Friday’s polling in Mauritania would challenge any satirist’s imagination. Centre stage is a leader who is opposed, among others, by a man he deposed in a coup 19 years ago. President Maaouiya Ould Taya is a nervous man.
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/ 11 November 2003
Six months after US President George W Bush declared an end to ‘major hostilities’ in Iraq, the conflict continues and the country remains in turmoil. Is there a solution, and if so, what is it? We asked experts from several countries for the answers.
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/ 11 November 2003
Markus Babbel and Dwight Yorke scored early in the first half as Blackburn beat Everton 2-1 on Monday to snap a five-game losing streak in the Premier League. Tomasz Radzinski scored for Everton, who slid into the bottom three. Everton have two losses and three draws in their last five games.
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/ 11 November 2003
Peter Reid has been sacked as manager of struggling English Premiership side Leeds, the club confirmed on Monday. Leeds have been in freefall all season and a humiliating 6-1 defeat away at Portsmouth on Saturday did nothing to appease the club’s increasingly under-pressure board.
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/ 11 November 2003
Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero suffered a setback in his bid for the year-end world number-one ranking, losing to Argentina’s David Nalbandian 6-3, 6-1 in 67 minutes in Houston on Monday at the ATP Masters Cup. Ferrero cannot afford another loss in round-robin play to mount an effective threat to top-ranked Andy Roddick.
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