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/ 28 December 2005
The decade-long hunt for the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic appeared to be close to a breakthrough on Tuesday after police revealed they had intercepted one of his cellphone calls. Serbian officials said the arrest of General Mladic ”has never been closer”.
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/ 28 December 2005
All Black great Jonah Lomu scored his first try for Cardiff as they crushed Welsh rivals Newport-Gwent Dragons 41-23 in their Celtic League clash at the Arms Park on Tuesday. The giant New Zealand wing crossed the Dragons’ line in the first minute of the second-half, scoring in his third appearance for the Welsh capital side.
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/ 28 December 2005
Ground troops and a helicopter gunship attacked a group of at least 35 rebel fighters in northern Uganda, killing 20 insurgents, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday. Three other rebels were captured and the rest fled into the bush following the Tuesday evening attack, said Lieutenant Chris Magezi.
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/ 28 December 2005
A day in the life of a Bafana Bafana coach is traditionally not free of some degree of turbulence — but Ted Dumitru could hardly have expected the shock news on Tuesday that in-form Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Emile Baron had ”bolted” from the squad for the coming African Nations Cup.
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/ 28 December 2005
As storylines go, it seemed destined to offend. The Ringer, a film by the Farrelly brothers, is about a man who pretends to have learning difficulties so that he can compete in the Special Olympics. With its liberal use of the word ”retarded” and the affectation of disability by an able-bodied man for laughs, it is hardly surprising that studios balked at making it.
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/ 28 December 2005
Under-fire all-rounder Andrew Symonds gave Australia a decisive edge over South Africa with three wickets on the third day of the second cricket Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Symonds, whose position in the team is under threat after a poor run of scores, hit back with a 16-ball spell of 3-7 with his medium-pacers to have the Proteas trailing by 44 runs in the first innings.
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/ 28 December 2005
The spot price of gold is expected to target new highs during January 2006, technical analysts for JP Morgan wrote on Wednesday. "The price action over the last few days has been encouraging with the yellow metal pushing back through $510/oz, but again this has been in thin trade and we need to really see some substance behind it," JP Morgan analysts wrote.
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/ 28 December 2005
Bus subsidies cost the national Transport Department R2,17-billion in 2003/04, according to the department’s annual report for 2005. The report, tabled in Parliament, noted that Gauteng received the largest cut of the nine provinces — with R788-million — followed by KwaZulu-Natal with R452-million. The Western Cape received R380-million.
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/ 28 December 2005
The killing of Malaysian bomb maker Azahari Husin by Indonesian police may spark revenge attacks against the country’s president, Indonesia’s spy chief warned on Wednesday. Syamsir Siregar said that before his death, Azahari, and his compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top — who is still at large — had recruited an unspecified number of trained militants.
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/ 28 December 2005
Philippine prosecutors on Tuesday charged four American marines and their local driver with raping a Filipina after an evening drinking in a nightclub near the United States’s former Subic Bay navy base. The marines, who were on leave at the end of joint exercises with their Philippine counterparts at the time, met the woman in the nightclub, the charges state.