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/ 18 November 2005
South Africa will host an international newspaper congress attended by more than 1Â 300 delegates in 2007, Print Media South Africa said on Friday. The Newspaper Association of South Africa has won a bid to host the World Association of Newspapers 60th World Newspaper Congress, as well as the 14th World Editors’ Forum and Expo Services.
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/ 18 November 2005
Roy Keane was sacked by Manchester United after being barred from playing for the club’s reserves on Thursday evening, according to reports emanating from his home town of Cork after the official announcement of his departure from the club. United issued a statement on Friday claiming that Keane was leaving by mutual consent.
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/ 18 November 2005
A fifth mass grave has been found in northern Namibia, media reports said on Friday. It is near the town of Ondangwa, once a major base of the former South African Defence Force. The grave is only a kilometre away from where a forensic team confirmed the discovery of a fourth mass grave earlier on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2005
Estonia’s serial tree feller, who stalked dozens of trees in a cemetery in the national capital, appears to have been caught in the act, police said on Friday. ”We arrested a 74-year-old man as he was cutting down a tree at Liiva cemetery with a handsaw,” police spokesperson Reimo Raivet told reporters.
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/ 18 November 2005
Two Danish artists said advertisements they created that ran in a Zimbabwean newspaper on Friday were meant to poke fun at Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Jan Egesborg and Klaus Rohland said they presented the ads as art work to business weekly the Zimbabwe Independent.
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/ 18 November 2005
A thousand Khutsong residents protested outside the office of Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Friday against plans to incorporate the Merafong municipal into the North West province from Gauteng. Stressing their dissatisfaction over the proposed re-demarcation, the group handed a memorandum over to officials.
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/ 18 November 2005
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has accused President Thabo Mbeki of being a ”past master” at exonerating African National Congress leaders before they have been properly investigated. ”President Mbeki seems wary of [corruption] investigations when they come too close to the Presidency,” Leon said in his weekly online newsletter.
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/ 18 November 2005
Civic and human rights groups urged African leaders on Friday to pressure Zimbabwe to restore the rule of law and end human rights violations. An alliance of 25 groups said the Zimbabwe government mostly ignored calls by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to observe human rights.
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/ 18 November 2005
Scientists have blasted a plan to cull thousands of elephants in the Kruger National Park, instead recommending contraception to reduce numbers. "This cull is abhorrent and needs to be stopped," Southern African Association for the Advancement of Science president Ian Raper said in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2005
Walking home with her two classmates after a morning’s lessons, Mirjana looks dumbfounded when asked if she has any Muslim friends. Ask a silly question, her expression says. The 16-year-old Bosnian Croat girl has grown up in a country at peace.