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/ 7 November 2005
The British writer John Fowles, author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, has died at the age of 79, his publisher, Random House, announced on Monday. Fowles died on Saturday at his home in Lyme Regis, in Dorset on England’s south coast, after a long illness.
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/ 7 November 2005
Soccer coaches don’t make great teams, it has been reasoned in some quarters. They destroy them. Jimmy Williams, who died on Friday at the age of 79 after several years of deteriorating health, was dedicated to not destroying anything while coaching Highlands Park in the 1960s.
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/ 7 November 2005
Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan on Sunday did not meet international standards, an international oberver mission said on Monday in a damning appraisal of the state of democracy in the ex-Soviet republic.
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/ 7 November 2005
An Eastern Cape-based research body has called on Parliament to occupy the five seats currently allocated to the government in South Africa’s African peer-review mechanism (APRM) governing council. The APRM governing council for South Africa is made up of 15 members — 10 from civil society and five from the executive arm of the government.
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/ 7 November 2005
British Prime Minister Tony Blair reluctantly accepted on Monday that he would have to back down on proposed anti-terror laws that would enable police to hold people for up to 90 days without charging them. Blair faced a showdown with rebel lawmakers from his own Labour Party later on Monday.
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/ 7 November 2005
South Africa’s emphatic 4-0 victory over New Zealand in the recent Standard Bank series was mission accomplished for new coach Mickey Arthur, but the national cricket team barely have time to breathe before moving on to the next challenge — a five-match limited-overs series in India.
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/ 7 November 2005
Pakistani police shot in the air and fired tear gas on Monday to disperse hundreds of angry Kashmiris who surged towards the Indian side of the Line of Control.
A crowd had gathered to watch a ceremony in which troops formally opened the de facto frontier that divides Kashmir to allow earthquake relief goods to cross between the two sides.
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/ 7 November 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade has vowed to make the area of Abaqulusi ungovernable, following the dissolution of the municipality last week. KwaZulu-Natal local government minister Mike Mabuyakhulu announced last week that the IFP-led municipality was in a chaotic state and that he had decided to fire its management.
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/ 7 November 2005
A United Nations Security Council mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday called for faster moves towards post-war elections, saying all parties it had met said this was their own aim. ”Everybody we’ve met has expressed a desire to go the polls,” France’s ambassador to the United Nations, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, said.
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/ 7 November 2005
Ireland’s obsession with the cellphone has sunk to new depths with a growing number of people now taking them with them to the grave, according to undertakers on Monday. Ireland has a tradition of people being buried with some of their most treasured possessions alongside them in the coffin.