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/ 22 November 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire may be the scariest of the films about the teen wizard but it also had the most successful opening of the series. Warner Brothers said Potter was the top film in all 19 countries where it opened at the weekend, including the United States, where it ended a box-office slump, and in Britain, where it smashed all records.
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/ 22 November 2005
The Gauteng government plans to accelerate spending on infrastructure and social services in the next three years. Provincial minister for finance and economic affairs Paul Mashatile tabled the provincial medium-term budget policy statement to the Gauteng legislature on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2005
National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha’s application to have his suspension overturned was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll on Tuesday and postponed indefinitely. Masetlha’s attorney, Imraan Haffegee, said his client will no longer pursue the matter in the form of an urgent application.
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/ 22 November 2005
The United States and international maritime authorities have boosted already-dire piracy warnings for vessels off the coast of lawless Somalia following a surge in attempted hijackings. In a new alert, the US Office of Naval Intelligence said ships in the region should stay at least 200 nautical miles (370km) from the coast.
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/ 22 November 2005
The United Nations has ordered the families of all its staff in Eritrea to leave the country amid soaring border tensions with arch-rival Ethiopia that have raised fears of a new war, senior UN officials said on Monday. The move comes as a result of a weekend UN decision to raise the security-threat level throughout most of Eritrea.
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/ 22 November 2005
Heavy rain and a water-logged ground forced the third one-dayer between India and South Africa to be abandoned without a ball being bowled in Chennai, India, on Tuesday. The five-match series remains locked at 1-1 after South Africa won the first match in Hyderabad by five wickets and India drew level with a six-wicket win in Bangalore.
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/ 22 November 2005
Kenyan voters soundly rejected a proposed new Constitution in a landmark referendum, dealing a major blow to President Mwai Kibaki, who supported the draft, according to official results released on Tuesday. Kibaki had invested heavy political capital leading the ”yes” campaign ahead of presidential elections due in 2007.
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/ 22 November 2005
Public living room, office, canteen, an escape, a place to chat, laugh or socialise, a venue for parties and wakes, the pub is still the heartbeat of British life. ”For lots of us it’s kind of a second home”, said social anthropologist Kate Fox, the director of the Social Issues Research Centre, based in Oxford, southern England.
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/ 22 November 2005
Europe’s illegal timber imports could speed up the disappearance of some forests within a decade, as well as increasing poverty in producer countries, the conservation organisation WWF warned on Tuesday. In a report, the WWF focused on trade between EU countries and timber regions in the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin, East Africa, Indonesia and the Russian Federation.
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/ 22 November 2005
The majority of the expansion in world number two platinum miner Impala Platinum’s platinum output from about 1,8-million ounces to 2,3-million ounces by 2010 would come from South Africa, Implats investor relations representative Bob Gilmour said on Tuesday.