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/ 20 October 2005
The Israeli military has blocked Palestinians from driving on the main artery through the West Bank in a first step towards what Israeli human rights groups say is total ”road apartheid” being enforced throughout the occupied territory. The army sealed off access to Route 60 after the fatal shooting of three settlers near Bethlehem on Sunday.
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/ 20 October 2005
Taxi operators told Transport Minister Jeff Radebe on Thursday that they would accept the taxi recapitalisation programme if they were given subsidies on top of the R50 000 scrapping allowance for their unroadworthy taxis. ”If we get rid of our taxis and get the R50 000 scrapping allowance which we can spend as a deposit for a new taxi, we won’t be able to make ends meet,” said Tom Muofhe, president of the SA National Taxi Council.
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/ 20 October 2005
Human rights activist group Khulumani International is to appeal against a New York court judgement dismissing an application for reparations from international companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid era. The appeal will be heard in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York on November 5.
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/ 20 October 2005
Ethiopian children are being sold for as little as $1,20 (about R7,90) to work as domestic workers or prostitutes, the International Organisation for Migration said on Wednesday. Up to 20 000 children, some 10 years old, are sold each year by their parents and trafficked by unscrupulous brokers to work in cities across Ethiopia.
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/ 20 October 2005
Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian Parliament next month after a long academic career, but she makes no bones about her view that a woman’s place is in the home. The 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality, as such a demand ”goes against nature”.
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/ 20 October 2005
Rory Carroll, an Irish journalist working for the British newspaper The Guardian, has been kidnapped by armed men in Iraq, the newspaper said on Wednesday. Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian‘s editor, said on the newspaper’s website: ”We’re deeply concerned at Rory’s disappearance.”
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/ 20 October 2005
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of the Yukos oil giant and formerly Russia’s wealthiest man, has been sent to a prison colony in eastern Siberia to serve the rest of his eight-year sentence for financial crimes. Alexander Pleshkov, head of the punishment implementation department for Siberia, said the the tycoon had been sent to a colony in the Krasnokamensk district of Chita province
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/ 20 October 2005
After its 1,82% slide on Wednesday, the JSE had recouped most of its losses by midday on Thursday, boosted by a rebound on United States markets overnight. By 12.04pm, the all share and all share industrial indices added 1,22% and 1,55% respectively. Financials firmed 1,39% and the banks index was up 1,51%.
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/ 20 October 2005
Authorities want Michael Jackson back in court — this time as a juror. Jackson received a jury summons at his Neverland Valley Ranch, four months after he was acquitted of child-molestation charges. ”It’s just one of those ironies of life that he’d be called as a juror,” said a professor at Loyola School of Law.
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/ 20 October 2005
Saddam Hussein’s Jordan-based legal team will meet his Iraqi lawyer soon to draw up a battle plan for his next court appearance, one of the lawyers said on Thursday. Issam Ghazzawi confirmed that the former dictator’s Iraqi courtroom lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi is expected in Amman in the next 24 hours to brief the team on the trial, which was adjourned until November 28.