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The Constitutional Court will rule on Thursday on whether gay marriages are legal. Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that two women, Marie Fourie and Cecilia Bonthuys, should be allowed to get married, but the couple later found they were unable to register their church wedding with the Department of Home Affairs.
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/ 30 November 2005
Angela Merkel addressed Parliament for the first time as German Chancellor on Wednesday, faced with an urgent test over a kidnapped German woman in Iraq and the long-term challenge of reviving the country’s moribund economy. Merkel said the government will set to work to return the country to its status as an economic powerhouse.
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/ 30 November 2005
The United States economy grew at a lively 4,3% pace from July to September, the best showing in more than a year. The performance offers fresh testimony that the country’s overall economic health managed to improve despite the destructive force of Gulf Coast hurricanes.
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There is confusion among older South Africans about the link between HIV and Aids, the effectiveness of condoms in curbing infections, and the purpose of anti-retrovirals. This is one of the findings of the Second South African HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communications Survey released on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2005
Egypt’s month-long parliamentary elections enter their third and final phase on Thursday with Islamists continuing their impressive run and judges pressing for guarantees against state interference. The extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s gains in the first two phases of voting took everybody by surprise.
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”We all know we live beyond our means, that we buy too easily on impulse and to impress people, and that we do not save nearly enough, but after a session with financial guru Suze Orman, I began to feel committed to actually doing something about it,” writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 30 November 2005
Eastern Cape land affairs and agriculture minister Gugile Nkwinti has sparked controversy between game farmers and the government by attacking game farms as ”elitist”. ”There is a recolonisation of the countryside. Game farms are taking over,” he told a meeting of farm workers and residents in Grahamstown.
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Omar Bongo’s re-election as Gabon’s President led to overnight riots, clashes and arrests in the economic capital of Port-Gentil after opposition claims of fraud, witnesses said on Wednesday. Scores of youths went on the rampage in the port city in the south-west of the oil-rich Central African country.
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A Los Angeles taxi driver who reunited an absent-minded passenger with 000 in diamonds that he left behind has now received his reward — 000 and a diamond bracelet. Driver Haider Sediqi, an Afghan immigrant, said the man’s thank-you note meant just as much to him.
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/ 30 November 2005
The White House, in its most detailed public plan yet for success in Iraq, said on Wednesday it expects to reduce United States forces there in 2006, but warned the country is likely to face violence ”for many years to come”. The White House released the strategy to set the stage for a speech a few hours later by President George Bush.