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/ 4 November 2005
At the 18th annual World Petroleum Conference held in Johannesburg recently, a group of 13 protesters from the Free Burma Campaign gathered to demonstrate peacefully against Total Oil’s alleged support for the Burmese military dictatorship. The protest was shut down by police officers, who pushed and dragged the protesters off the sidewalk.
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/ 3 November 2005
Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi and provincial leaders will visit Khutsong on Friday, after two days of often-violent protests by residents over proposals to redemarcate the West Rand town. Protests broke out on Wednesday over the possible inclusion of the Merafong municipality into the North West.
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/ 3 November 2005
South African oil company Imvume Management has taken steps to institute legal proceedings against the committee appointed by the United Nations to investigate irregularities in Iraq’s oil-for-food programme relating to accusations of kickbacks against Imvume and sister company Montego.
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/ 3 November 2005
Police shot and killed two people and wounded 12 others on Thursday, the fourth day of protests against Ethiopia’s disputed parliamentary elections, doctors said. The renewed violence came a day after police shot dead at least 29 people and wounded dozens more.
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/ 3 November 2005
France’s government faced mounting pressure on Thursday after suburban rioters fired at police and firefighters, hurled rocks at trains and torched buses and car dealerships. Nine people were injured in Seine-Saint-Denis and 315 cars were torched across the Paris area where acts of violence ranged from stone-throwing to torching vehicles.
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/ 3 November 2005
Potty training is difficult enough for any toddler, but one Norwegian youngster has suffered a particularly dramatic reverse after a carnivorous lizard emerged from the family toilet as he used it. The boy’s mother discovered the 75cm teju lizard as she helped her three-year-old use the toilet.
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/ 3 November 2005
An epidemic of ship hijackings off the coast of lawless Somalia is choking the delivery of relief supplies to more than half-a-million people facing acute food shortages in the country’s southern regions, the World Food Programme warned on Thursday. The agency is seeking alternative avenues of transportation.
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/ 3 November 2005
Veterinary experts from across Africa warned on Thursday that an avian-flu outbreak could prove devastating to the continent because of the poor facilities and inadequate monitoring capacity in many countries. The officials also outlined measures to deal with the deadly virus should it reach Africa.
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/ 3 November 2005
Citizens of the Merafong municipality, which includes Carletonville, were not consulted on a decision to incorporate the area into the North West, an South African Communist Party spokesperson said on Thursday. The demarcation has failed the community, said Jomo Mogale, local chairperson of the SACP.