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/ 21 November 2005
So it turns out that the granny kicked the soccer player’s butt all over the football pitch and finally left it to lick its wounds (if a butt can lick its own wounds) at the back of the net. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s victory in the presidential elections in Liberia raises and simultaneously discards all the key issues besetting the African continent.
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/ 21 November 2005
African governments and the African Union have been petitioned by more than 150 international rights groups to act on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. Earlier this year President Robert Mugabe’s government drew flak over its Operation Murambatsvina, which a United Nations special envoy report said destroyed the homes of up to 700 000 people.
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/ 21 November 2005
Almost nobody believes radical Islam was a trigger for the rioting that exploded in France three weeks ago. But experts and authorities fear the social discontent that found an outlet in suburban rampaging could evolve among a small minority of the rioters into a dangerous form of Islamic militancy. Many predict the months to come will become a struggle for the soul of these angry suburbs.
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/ 21 November 2005
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, faced the gravest threat to his authority as leader of the worldwide Anglican communion on Wednesday night, as nearly half the church’s presiding archbishops launched an unprecedented attack on his leadership over the issue of gay clergy.
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/ 21 November 2005
”The Mail & Guardian had barely hit the streets when the CEO of South African National Parks, David Mabunda, fired off an SMS accusing the newspaper of attacking him on a personal level. In response to an article on elephant culling, he said, I was using a public platform to ‘bash and trash’ him,” writes Fiona Macleod.
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/ 21 November 2005
Did United States troops use chemical weapons in Fallujah? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the Internet. It’s a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial.
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/ 20 November 2005
Tropical Storm Gamma deluged the Caribbean coast of Central America on Saturday, killing at least six people — three in flooding in Honduras and three in the crash of a small plane belonging to a lodge owned by United States filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. On Saturday night, Gamma was moving at 10kph and was located about 400km east of the Belizean capital, Belize City.
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/ 20 November 2005
Disgraced 1970s glam rock star Gary Glitter has been arrested trying to flee Vietnam for Thailand and is accused of having sex with underage girls, Vietnamese police and state media said on Sunday. ”He was arrested on Saturday in Ho Chi Minh City,” said a police officer in Vung Tau city, 100km east of the southern Vietnamese business hub.
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/ 20 November 2005
The African National Congress’ national executive committee (NEC) is meeting for a third day at Esselen Park, east of Johannesburg, a party spokesperson said on Sunday morning. It had been scheduled to meet only on Friday and Saturday. The NEC was due to receive and discuss a report on ways to heal rifts in the party.