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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.
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/ 27 January 2004
Twin roadside bombings west of Baghdad killed three American soldiers and two Iraqis on Tuesday, and the United Nations chief said he is ready to send a team to Iraq to assess prospects for early elections — if the United States-led coalition can guarantee security.
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/ 27 January 2004
South Africans on Tuesday noted Charlize Theron’s latest success as she was nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role as a serial killer in Monster — but some couldn’t resist raking up the dark past of the former model who left the country a traumatised teenager.
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/ 27 January 2004
Pakistan’s probe into the alleged sale of nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya has narrowed to three scientists and four military officers, as speculation mounted on Tuesday that ”national heroes” could be charged — those elevated to national hero status for their contributions to making Pakistan a nuclear power.
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/ 27 January 2004
At least 14 people were killed, most of them policemen and firefighters, when a blazing 12-storey tower block collapsed on emergency services in a Cairo suburb, police said on Tuesday. Rescue teams had accounted for all the missing policemen and firefighters but could not rule out that civilians may still be under the rubble.