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/ 22 October 2005
In the clearest indication to date that criminal charges against top White House officials may be in the offing, the special prosecutor investigating the CIA leak case has unveiled his own website — one week before his probe was scheduled to wrap up.
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/ 22 October 2005
World number one Tiger Woods appeared headed for a rare early exit when play was halted for the day on Friday after a rain delay in the second round of the ,4-million Funai Classic. Woods had two holes to play when the round was suspended, and almost surely needed a birdie-birdie finish to make the cut projected to fall at six-under.
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/ 22 October 2005
The familiar spectre of batting collapses continued to haunt the Warriors as they tottered to 38 for four at the close of the second day of their Supersport Series cricket match against the Cape Cobras at St George’s Park on Friday. The slump in the day’s final 20 overs by the Eastern Cape side threatened to undermine a fine bowling performance which saw them restrict the visitors to 211 for nine declared.
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/ 22 October 2005
Male models will be used as ballboys at the 2006 WTA Tour Championships, officials announced in Madrid on Friday. With female models into their second year of similar duties at this week’s men’s ATP Madrid Masters, the Spanish organisers believe they are on to a good thing.
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/ 22 October 2005
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh says star leg spinner Shane Warne is insecure, hits out at Ian Chappell and takes aim at the national selectors in his keenly-awaited autobiography. Prime Minister John Howard will launch Waugh’s Out Of My Comfort Zone in Sydney on Sunday with publishers Penguin reportedly paying Aus,3-million in the biggest advance paid to date for an Australian book.
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/ 22 October 2005
United States President George Bush called on Friday night for the United Nations security council to take up urgently the question of Syrian involvement in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, saying the international community had to hold Damascus accountable.
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/ 22 October 2005
In just one week, police reported 15 murders in South Africa, with the most gruesome case being that of a North West father who wiped out his entire family. Inspector Thabo Makhafola said the man, from Madikwe’s Lethlakeng village in North West, had been a security guard at a mine in the area.
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/ 22 October 2005
International experience showed judicial education was an effective way of supporting transformation, the University of Cape Town’s Law, Race and Gender Research Institute said in a submission to the judges’ probe into racism and sexism.
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/ 22 October 2005
Nato agreed to send up to 1 000 soldiers to boost Pakistan’s overwhelmed relief effort on Friday night as alarm grew over how to cope with a disaster now considered among the most difficult faced by the modern world. About 15 000 mountain settlements have yet to receive aid; international relief is chaotic and underfunded; and hundreds of thousands of survivors are at risk as the bitter Himalayan winter approaches.
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/ 22 October 2005
Sea water rushed into the Mexican resort city of Cancun early on Saturday as Hurricane Wilma whipped up a massive storm surge and unleashed heavy rain and driving winds over a resort area known for its picturesque beaches. The Category Four storm hit the Yucatan peninsula packing sustained winds of 215km an hour, felling trees and tearing roofs off buildings, as tens of thousands of tourists and residents cowered in emergency shelters.