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/ 21 November 2005
United States President George Bush on Monday became the first sitting US president to visit Mongolia, in a show of support for a fledgling democracy that has sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush said in remarks released by the White House that US forces were proud to fight alongside the ”fearless warriors” of Mongolia, once home to fearsome 13th century conqueror Genghis Khan.
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/ 21 November 2005
What began as a whisper on Wall Street became a deafening roar at the end of last week. Could General Motors, the largest carmaker in the world and the backbone of American industry, be preparing to file for bankruptcy? Shares in the company skidded to their lowest level since 1987 amid fears for its future.
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/ 21 November 2005
Shareholders in South African construction group Murray & Roberts on Monday voted in favour of the company proceeding with the implementation of its broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction. Group chief executive Brian Bruce said: "We are pleased that shareholders have supported our empowerment strategy."
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/ 21 November 2005
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If the rape claims against Jacob Zuma turn out to be ”serious allegations” and go to court, the party will take action, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday at a media briefing on the party’s national executive committee meeting at the past weekend.
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/ 21 November 2005
More than a year after Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko ingested a massive dose of dioxin, mystery still shrouds the poisoning that covered his movie-star handsome face with scars and blisters. ”I am a man like any other. I’d like to wake up with a different face,” Yushchenko told reporters recently.
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/ 21 November 2005
South African Airways and SA Airlink will extend their existing partnership until October next year, the two airlines announced on Monday. They were to have ended their current commercial agreement at the end of this year, they said in a joint statement.
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/ 21 November 2005
Legendary Liverpool striker Ian Rush believes England can win the World Cup, backing the deadly partnership of Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney to take them all the way. Bookmakers in Britain have elevated England to joint second-favourites behind Brazil to win the World Cup next summer and Rush is not about to disagree.
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/ 21 November 2005
South Africa’s second-largest gold-mining group, Gold Fields, on Monday announced that it will acquire Canadian-listed Bolivar Gold for $330-million (R2,2-billion) and merge the company with its international assets in Ghana and Australia. The board of directors of each company has resolved to approve the transaction.
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/ 21 November 2005
The threat of an al-Qaeda bioterrorism attack was a ”clear and present danger of the highest order”, secretary general of international policing organisation Interpol Ronald Noble said on Monday. He was speaking in Cape Town at the opening of an Interpol-organised workshop for African police departments on bioterrorism — an attack using biological weapons such as anthrax, smallpox or plague.
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/ 21 November 2005
Tropical Storm Gamma weakened into a tropical depression and was losing more strength as it drifted off the coast of Honduras on Sunday night after killing 11 people in Honduras and three in nearby Belize. Gamma, the 24th named storm of an already record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to bring rain to northern Honduras and central Cuba as it becomes less organised and dissipates.