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/ 17 November 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed on Thursday to donors to give generously for victims of the October 8 earthquake, as Kashmiri civilians were poised to cross the disputed territory’s frontier. "What happened here … was something that the world could not have imagined," Annan said after arriving in Pakistan.
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/ 17 November 2005
”We have cried long enough,” says Hilde Wiese, a commercial farmer from Namibia, her eyes red. ”Now we’re actually pleased that it’s all over.” This week, a chapter of colonial history closed as the Wieses prepared to vacate their farm, the first white-owned farm to be expropriated under Namibia’s fast-tracked land-reform programme.
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/ 17 November 2005
The 49-year-old owner of a tiny corner shop in a rundown part of Mexico City has done what few of her compatriots thought possible: taken on Coca-Cola and won. ”Everybody got scared and told me I was crazy and I’d be ruined,” Raquel Chavez recalled. ”I said I’d rather die with my dignity intact than be trampled on.”
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/ 17 November 2005
France’s Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, his popularity soaring, on Wednesday night threw down the gauntlet to President Jacques Chirac, saying some form of affirmative action is essential to overcome the problems of the country’s ethnic minorities.
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/ 17 November 2005
Johannesburg- and London- listed specialist banking group Investec plc on Thursday reported a 43,1% leap in headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of September from 58,3 pence to 83,4 pence. The group declared an interim dividend per share of 38 pence.
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/ 17 November 2005
Seif Saad, an Iraqi guard, showed no remorse on Wednesday for the detention and alleged abuse of 173 prisoners in Baghdad. ”We placed sacks on their heads and tied their hands behind their backs,” he said of their arrests, but, as far as he was concerned, they were suspected terrorists.
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/ 17 November 2005
In a show of unity, United States President George Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun declared on Thursday that a nuclear-armed North Korea ”will not be tolerated” and agreed that the problem should be resolved through peaceful diplomacy. They spoke at a news conference in Gyeongju, the ancient capital of Korea.
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/ 17 November 2005
Owners of certain vehicles will pay more for fuel next year when regulations to encourage the use of cleaner fuels come into effect, the South African Petroleum Industry Association said on Wednesday. Drivers of luxurious performance vehicles will pay a levy of at least 10 cents more if they choose to use 95-octane fuel, for example.
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/ 17 November 2005
A teenager who was trampled by an elephant near Mopane on Monday has been identified as William Andrew, a British student based at the Mooketsi Conservation Centre in Limpopo. The provincial department of economic development, environment and tourism said the incident occurred while the elephant was being trained.
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/ 17 November 2005
Murder convict William Nkuna is to be sentenced on Thursday for the murder of missing police constable Frances Rasuge. Nkuna was found guilty by Judge Ronald Hendricks in the Mmabatho Circuit Court in Ga-Rankuwa last month, more than a year after the constable went missing and investigations began.