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/ 25 October 2005
Legendary singer and pianist Shirley Horn, known for her deliberately slow renditions of jazz standards, has died at 71 in the Washington area, a member of her entourage said on Friday. Horn was discovered in 1960 by producer Quincy Jones and legendary trumpeter Miles Davis.
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/ 25 October 2005
Msunduzi municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has recovered R2-million from workers owing it money by docking their salaries, the Witness website reported on Tuesday. It said the hefty deductions were made last Friday when employees received their annual 13th cheques.
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/ 25 October 2005
Syrian President Bashar Assad is in a box from which he cannot escape, Western diplomats say, after United Nations investigators implicated senior regime figures in February’s murder of the Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri. But while Assad is no Houdini, rumours of his imminent political demise appear exaggerated.
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/ 25 October 2005
Doctors at the Pretoria Academic hospital have obtained an urgent court order enabling them to give a month-old baby a blood transfusion, Independent Online reported on Tuesday. The baby’s family, who live in Sunnyside and are Jehovah’s Witnesses, were deeply distressed by the turn of events.
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/ 25 October 2005
Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 92. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title of ”mother of the civil rights movement”.
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/ 25 October 2005
Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 92. Parks died on Monday evening at her home during the evening of natural causes. She was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title of ”mother of the civil rights movement”.
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/ 25 October 2005
Ben Bernanke, chief economic adviser to United States President George Bush, was named on Monday to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairperson of the Federal Reserve in Washington. The appointment of Bernanke (51), to what is seen as the world’s most powerful banking job, had been widely anticipated.
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/ 25 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma cut furiously across Florida late on Monday, killing five people and leaving more than three million homes without power, after churning huge waves that flooded Cuba’s capital, Havana. The storm killed at least 10 people in its violent passage through Mexico over the weekend.
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/ 25 October 2005
The African National Congress needs to find a ”far more dignified” way of dealing with the succession issue, business magnate and former party heavyweight Tokyo Sexwale said on Monday. ”What we are seeing with the [Jacob] Zuma/Thabo Mbeki debacle is less than dignified,” he told an Institute for Justice and Reconciliation symposium in Cape Town.
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/ 25 October 2005
Cracks in Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Changes (MDC) widened on Monday as more than two dozen members defied their leader’s call to boycott Senate polls. MDC spokesperson Paul Themba Nyathi said 27 party members registered as candidates for the 50 contested seats.