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/ 28 October 2005
An embattled White House braced on Friday for criminal charges against Vice-President Dick Cheney’s top aide in an investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s identity. Meanwhile, President George Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, remains under investigation.
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/ 28 October 2005
An international rights group accused Côte d’Ivoire on Friday of recruiting former child soldiers and other fighters from neighbouring Liberia, luring them with offers of cash, food and clothing in anticipation of renewed civil-war battles in the country, where mounting tensions have led to fears of a new outbreak of violence.
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/ 28 October 2005
New York City has many odours, but when the city began to smell a little too good, New Yorkers became alarmed. Residents from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Upper West Side nearly 16km north called a city hotline to report a strong odour on Thursday night that most compared to maple syrup.
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/ 28 October 2005
Medical personnel and emergency workers on Tanzania’s volatile Zanzibar archipelago on Friday prepared for possible election violence as voters readied to cast ballots in hotly contested weekend polls. Equipment is being stockpiled and facilities for emergency care set up as part of contingency plans to deal with hundreds of casualties.
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/ 28 October 2005
Cape Town police arrested eight people after one man was killed and three injured in shooting outside the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Debby Pheiffer said a group of men started shooting at each other in front of the court.
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/ 28 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki’s role in the United Nations oil-for-food programme is to be questioned by the Democratic Alliance. ”President Thabo Mbeki must explain how he allowed South Africa’s diplomatic support to be bought by the government of the blood-thirsty, and now deposed, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein,” the DA said on Friday.
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/ 28 October 2005
Deaths at the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp could have been prevented had there been enough medical capacity, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday. On Friday, a report was released after an investigation into deaths at the centre by an independent committee.
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/ 28 October 2005
Springbok scrumhalf Fourie du Preez has been ruled out of the end-of-year tour after an medical scan on Friday afternoon revealed damage to his groin muscle. Du Preez felt discomfort on Thursday evening after suffering a groin strain at Thursday afternoon’s training session at St Stithians College in Johannesburg.
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/ 28 October 2005
George Takei, best known for his role as Mr Sulu in Star Trek, came out as a homosexual in the current issue of a magazine covering the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community. Takei said on Thursday that his role as psychologist Martin Dysart in the play Equus inspired him to publicly discuss his sexuality.
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/ 28 October 2005
One of the world’s most popular men, Nelson Mandela, has been immortalised in a comic-book series covering his life.