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/ 24 October 2005
More help arrived in quake-hit Pakistan on Monday as the United Nations warned that time is running out for survivors of the worst catastrophe in the country’s history. ”We are facing an enormous humanitarian catastrophe,” European Union humanitarian aid commissioner Louis Michel said.
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/ 24 October 2005
Seventeen people were killed and 15 injured when three car bombs exploded near hotels occupied by journalists and other foreigners in central Baghdad on Monday, sending massive clouds of fire and smoke into the sky. The explosions, two smaller ones followed by a huge blast within minutes of each other, shattered windows at the Palestine hotel.
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/ 24 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma plowed into south-west Florida early on Monday with howling 200kph winds and pounding waves, swamping Key West and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people as it began a dash across the state toward Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Northern Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Northern Cape education department on Monday that three Afrikaans-medium schools become dual-medium. The Kalahari High School and Seodin Primary School in Kuruman and the Noord-Kaapland Agricultural High School in Jan Kempdorp took the department to court.
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/ 24 October 2005
Peter Jooste, convener of the national selection panel, has confirmed on Monday the call-up of Wikus van Heerden to the Springbok squad in place of the injured Pedrie Wannenburg. Blue Bulls flanker Wannenburg sustained an ankle injury on Saturday in the Absa Currie Cup final match against the Vodacom Cheetahs in Pretoria.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Democratic Alliance has criticised the African National Congress’s ”choice” of Pan Africanist Congress MP Themba Godi to chair Parliament’s watchdog standing committee on public accounts (Scopa). This demonstrates the ANC’s ”willingness to further erode democracy and transparency to protect its own interests”, the DA said.
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/ 24 October 2005
Massive waves churned up by Hurricane Wilma crashed into Cuba’s capital city early on Monday, flooding the Malecon coastal highway and seeping into nearby neighbourhoods of old, crumbling buildings. The ocean penetrated up to four blocks into Havana’s coastal neighbourhoods.
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/ 24 October 2005
Crude slid below on Monday as Hurricane Wilma crashed ashore in Florida, avoiding already battered Gulf of Mexico oil-producing and -refining facilities. Analysts said perceptions of relatively plentiful supply and revised assessments showing less damage from previous hurricanes also contributed to the downward trend.
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/ 24 October 2005
Poland’s leading Law and Justice party launched formal coalition talks on Monday, with a strengthened hand a day after its candidate, Lech Kaczynski, won the presidency. Kaczynski won with 54% of Sunday’s vote, compared with 46% for opponent Donald Tusk, of the pro-market Civic Platform party.
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/ 24 October 2005
A new black economic empowerment (BEE) share scheme at Nedbank, called Eyethu, will most likely be tested in the Equality Court after a complaint by one of its members, said labour union Solidarity on Sunday. A "white" member of Solidarity was turned away twice from Nedbank last week, the union said.