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/ 28 January 2004
A South African has reportedly been killed in a suicide car bombing at a Baghdad hotel in Iraq early on Wednesday. At least three other people also died in the blast. The bomb exploded in front of the Shaheen hotel, which is frequented by Westerners, and destroyed the front of the hotel building.
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/ 28 January 2004
A judicial inquiry into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly has cleared British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government of ”dishonourable conduct” or embellishing its September 2002 dossier on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, The Sun newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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/ 28 January 2004
South Africa, whose build-up to the African Nations Cup was dogged by player-power disputes and cash rows, buried their troubles with a 2-0 victory over newcomers Benin here on Tuesday.
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/ 28 January 2004
Banyana Banyana assembled in Johannesburg on Tuesday to start preparing for Sunday’s Athens Olympic Games qualifier against Angola in Soweto. ”Our plan is to score as many goals as possible on Sunday in order to ease the pressure for the return match,” said Banyana Banyana coach Gregory Mashilo.
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/ 28 January 2004
Spain’s world number three Juan Carlos Ferrero emerged from a three-set dogfight with Moroccan Hicham Arazi to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open on Wednesday. The French Open champion needed two tie-break sets to put away the 51-ranked Arazi.
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/ 28 January 2004
Patty Schnyder’s hard road back from career-threatening personal troubles swept her into the semifinals of a Grand Slam event for the first time at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday. The 22nd seed from Switzerland displayed greater composure to out-fox giant-killing Lisa Raymond.
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/ 28 January 2004
A suicide bomber who detonated a car bomb outside a Baghdad hotel shortly before dawn on Wednesday has killed himself and at least two others, a spokesperson for the United States military in Baghdad confirmed. At least four other people were wounded, some seriously, in the powerful explosion.
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/ 28 January 2004
Senegal coach Guy Stephan claimed on Wednesday that his team are the victim of a vicious smear campaign aimed at undermining the co-favourites’ assault on the African Nations Cup. ”There is a newspaper which is looking to destablise the Senegal team,” Stephan told Senegalese journalists.
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/ 27 January 2004
A group of South African and Hungarian scientists have discovered a novel way to unravel the mysteries of the annual European swallow migration between the northern and southern hemispheres. By chemically analysing feathers of the little nomads collected during their African sojourn, the researchers are determining from which European breeding area the birds originate.
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/ 27 January 2004
Southern Africa is facing another difficult year of food insecurity. Donors have so far provided $168-million of a $533-million humanitarian appeal covering six countries in the region. Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Regional Office for Southern Africa Chris Kaye, speaks on the humanitarian community’s response to the current emergency.