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/ 21 November 2005
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Monday declared a national disaster and appealed to the international community for food aid after government estimates showed that 1,2-million people face famine. Zambia became the second country in drought-hit Southern Africa to declare a national disaster following Malawi.
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/ 21 November 2005
Alfred Anderson, the last surviving person to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous ”Christmas Truce” of World War I, died on Monday at the age of 109. Anderson’s parish priest, the Reverend Neil Gardner, said he died in his sleep early on Monday at a nursing home in Newtyle, Scotland.
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/ 21 November 2005
The death toll in Honduras from Tropical Storm Gamma increased on Monday to at least 15, with 13 people missing, officials said. In neighbouring Belize, five fishermen were missing at sea because of the record 27th storm of the Atlantic season, Belize media said.
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/ 21 November 2005
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an intense bombardment of Israeli positions on the volatile border on Monday, triggering retaliatory Israeli air strikes, with one person reportedly killed. The flare-up came amid political turmoil in Israel following Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s call for early elections he plans to contest at the head of a new centrist party.
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/ 21 November 2005
The matric results will be announced on December 29, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. The date was agreed to at a Council of Education Ministers meeting in Pretoria on Monday, where school uniforms, a language policy, new school premises and the Education Laws Amendment Bill were also discussed.
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/ 21 November 2005
The African National Congress on Monday called on its members to exercise ”caution and discipline” over their views on who is suitable for party leadership. In a lengthy statement after its weekend national executive committee meeting, the party said there is no conspiracy or divisions within the ANC, but noted that one of its new challenges is in-fighting and factionalism.
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/ 21 November 2005
A consumer group accused Giancarlo Fisichella of setting a bad example after the Italian formula-one driver was caught speeding in Rome. Fisichella had his licence confiscated after being caught driving 148kph in a 60kph zone at dawn on Sunday, the news agency Ansa said.
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/ 21 November 2005
Repeated showers threatened to wash out the third limited-overs cricket international between India and South Africa in Madras, but officials and the two team captains said they hoped play would resume if the rain stopped by the end of Monday. The five-game series is level at present.
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/ 21 November 2005
A powerful blast during play and Pakistan’s sharp pace attack combined to make Monday a scary day for England in the second cricket Test. The tourists — one down in the three-Test series — were 113-3 when bad light stopped play for the day, still 349 behind Pakistan’s challenging first-innings total of 462.
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/ 21 November 2005
President Thabo Mbeki called on Monday for good leadership in South African soccer. He was speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the new headquarters of the South African Football Association at the FNB Stadium. ”Let us have a place where we can work and have good leadership,” he said.