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/ 26 October 2005
Five Israelis were killed and dozens more wounded on Wednesday when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy marketplace, the first deadly attack inside the Jewish state since July. Responsibility for the attack in the town of Hadera was claimed by the Islamic Jihad movement.
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/ 26 October 2005
British tycoon Richard Branson launched a business school on Wednesday in Johannesburg aimed at budding entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa. The Branson School of Entrepreneurship at Cida City Campus is the first project to carry his name.
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/ 26 October 2005
The Cabinet says the suspension of three top intelligence officials was not related to party politics and did not represent ”some settling of scores in relation to party-political issues”, according to a statement by government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe after the regular Cabinet meeting held in Cape Town on Wednesday.
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/ 26 October 2005
A Working on Fire team is standing by to demobilise after cooler weather and rain put an end to fires in Limpopo, spokesperson Val Charlton said on Wednesday.
”As soon as the temperature drops, and there is rain, it is easier to get the fires under control,” she said on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 26 October 2005
At least four people were killed and dozens more wounded on Wednesday in a Palestinian bomb attack in a marketplace in northern Israel, the first inside the Jewish state since July. Responsibility for the attack in the town of Hadera was claimed by the Islamic Jihad movement.
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/ 26 October 2005
Iran’s hard-line president has called for Israel to be ”wiped off the map” and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks would destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported on Wednesday. In a swipe at some Arab states, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced attempts to recognise Israel or normalise relations with it.
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/ 26 October 2005
The Springbok team breathed a collective sigh of relief after stalwarts Os du Randt and Victor Matfield were cleared on Wednesday after being cited for their scuffle in Saturday’s Currie Cup final. Both men received yellow cards for fighting during the heated title-decider at Loftus Versfeld.
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/ 26 October 2005
The three men accused of kidnapping 10-year-old Liam Aspeling earlier this month made a low-key appearance in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Aspeling, whose father is a state witness in a truck-hijacking case, was snatched from a car while on his way to school on October 11. The three accused not asked to plead.
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/ 26 October 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday urged donors to show the same kind of generosity towards earthquake-hit Pakistan as they did in the wake of last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami. Annan addressed a gathering of UN and other aid agencies, donor governments and Pakistani officials in Geneva.
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/ 26 October 2005
Old allies in the human rights struggle, former president Nelson Mandela and United States civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, meet again.