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/ 16 November 2005
Spot platinum on Wednesday afternoon surged to a fresh 25-and-a-half-year high of $990 a troy ounce on continued forceful fund-buying of the metal by the funds as well as Tuesday’s bullishly construed platinum group-metal review released by Johnson Matthey.
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/ 16 November 2005
Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The morning rush-hour blast in Srinagar left people bleeding on the road and turned vehicles into twisted wrecks.
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/ 16 November 2005
Separated by six decades of bitter hostility, residents of the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir lined their heavily militarised frontier on Wednesday to wave and cheer as officials exchanged aid for victims of the massive quake that rocked the region last month.
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/ 16 November 2005
The huge security operation thrown up around an Asia-Pacific summit faced its first test on Wednesday — from a handful of housewives angry at United States President George Bush. Four middle-aged women, who unfurled banners and shouted slogans, were hauled away by riot police.
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/ 16 November 2005
The government acted against the will of the people of Merafong by passing a Bill in Parliament to incorporate the Gauteng town into the North West province, the South African Communist Party said on Wednesday. ”There’s nothing democratic about what is happening in Merafong,” SACP district secretary Nkosiphendule Kolisile said..
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/ 16 November 2005
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday attacked the United States at the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, for monopolising the governance of the internet. Mugabe said the summit is supposed to engender confidence in internet users outside Europe and North America.
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/ 16 November 2005
Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 68 as South Africa overcame a fighting India by five wickets in Hyderabad on Wednesday to grab a 1-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series. The victory took South Africa’s unbeaten streak to 20 matches and left them just one short of equalling Australia’s world record of 21 consecutive wins in 2003.
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/ 16 November 2005
Mobile-services company Exactmobile on Wednesday became the first to launch video ringtones and voice messaging via multimedia messaging service (MMS) in South Africa. Exactmobile has licensed software that enables it to convert music videos into a mobile format.
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/ 16 November 2005
China on Wednesday reported its first three confirmed human cases of bird flu. The health ministry confirmed two cases in Hunan province in central China and one in Anhui province in the east, the Xinhua news agency said. Meanwhile, Germany wants the ban on live bird imports into the European Union to be extended into next year.
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/ 16 November 2005
The campuses of the University of South Africa (Unisa) will undergo a R600-million revamp in the next five years, principal Barney Pityana announced on Wednesday. ”The student profile of Unisa is changing and we have seen an increase in the number of younger people choosing to study full-time by long distance,” he said.