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/ 7 September 2005
Old habits die hard, especially in Egypt. When President Hosni Mubarak launched his election campaign, the party faithfully declared their support in traditional fashion. ”With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for you,” they chanted, but the president was not pleased and asked them to stop.
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/ 7 September 2005
United States President George Bush, facing a political crisis over the government’s handling of relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, announced on Tuesday that he would lead his own investigation of what went wrong. ”We want to make sure that we can respond properly if there’s a WMD [weapons of mass destruction] attack or another major storm,” he said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Mussa Arafat, a military advisor to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and a cousin of the late Yasser Arafat, was shot dead after a gunbattle at his home in Gaza City early on Tuesday. Arafat was shot in front of his wife and son before being dragged out onto the street.
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/ 7 September 2005
I glanced at a certain Johannesburg newspaper recently, and saw that it has cheerfully started putting single-word names next to photographs of "celebrities". For instance, there’s a pic of Robert de Niro, and below it isn’t a caption saying why the pic is there. Instead, there is a bright, colourful word: "ROBERT!". Hmm, this is journalism for dummies only. Or did I miss a meeting?
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/ 7 September 2005
It was hailed as the biggest contraceptive revolution since the invention of the Pill. ”Johnny’s had a sex change,” went the publicity strapline, and in the eight months preceding its 1992 launch in Britain it had generated articles in the press and TV and radio features.
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/ 7 September 2005
Nobody, give or take the occasional blues musician, likes to admit to being lonely. People who study loneliness, like Harvard University psychiatrist Jacqueline Olds, typically have to rely on anonymous surveys to gauge the size of the problem. On the Internet, though, anonymity is the default position, which explains the extra-ordinary story of what happened on the website Moviecodec.com.
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/ 6 September 2005
Policemen who allegedly extort money from foreigners arrested for not having the necessary documentation have been exposed at the Booysens police station in southern Johannesburg. The policemen were exposed on SABC 3’s Special Assignment programme on Tuesday night.
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/ 6 September 2005
The devastation set to be revealed by Hurricane Katrina’s receding floodwaters will shock the United States, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin predicted on Tuesday as military engineers plugged one of the biggest gaps in the city’s levee system. ”It’s going to be awful and it’s going to wake the nation up again,” he said, estimating that it would take three weeks to drain the water.
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/ 6 September 2005
Iran could develop nuclear bomb-making capability within five years, but a longer timeframe is more likely, a leading thinktank said on Tuesday. A report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies found that international political opposition to Tehran pushing ahead with its nuclear programme made it probable that a 10-15 year timescale was more realistic.