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/ 23 August 2005

More injuries hit the Wallabies

The Wallabies were on Tuesday hit by more injury concerns ahead of their final Tri-Nations rugby international against New Zealand in Auckland on September 3. The Australians, who are without a win in the Tri-Nations after two defeats to South Africa and another to New Zealand, have delayed naming their squad until Wednesday to await a series of medical reports.

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/ 23 August 2005

‘We never fought to make a few black people wealthy’

South Africa’s transition to democracy over the past decade has proved a disaster for the country’s poor, Congress of South African Trade Unions Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich said on Monday. Speaking in Cape Town’s City Hall at the launch of a grassroots coalition to tackle poverty in the province, he harshly criticised the government’s failure to stem job losses.

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/ 23 August 2005

Iran’s rock hopefuls struggle to be heard

The soaring guitar solos and haunting keyboard melodies owe more than a nod to Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple and other ageing icons of 70s British rock. But while they may have emulated their heroes’ musical virtuosity, the members of Norik Misakian Band are unlikely to follow their path to world fame and fortune.

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/ 23 August 2005

Sunnis get last chance for deal

Iraq’s ruling coalition submitted a new Constitution to Parliament on Monday night but delayed a vote for three days to try to win over Sunni Arabs who said it could lead to civil war. Shia and Kurdish leaders said they had reached a compromise between themselves and delivered a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Sunni minority to sign up to the deal by Thursday or retreat deeper into the political wilderness.

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/ 23 August 2005

Sharon pledges to expand in West Bank

As Israeli forces removed residents from the last Jewish settlement still to be cleared in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to win back support from the Israeli right by promising continued expansion of Israel’s West Bank colonies and no more unilateral pullouts.

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/ 23 August 2005

Rolling Stones gather no dross

With a combined age of 245 and multimillion-pound fortunes to match, the Rolling Stones could be forgiven for quietly hanging up their guitars. But instead the original bad boys of rock’n’roll kicked off their latest world tour in front of a sell-out crowd at Boston’s Fenway Park on Sunday with a concert so loud it had policemen patrolling outside with sound meters.

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/ 23 August 2005

‘Time is not on our side’

"To find a peaceful and democratic solution to Zimbabwe’s problems the African Union and the Southern African Development Community need to develop an informed, honest and objective consensus as to its origins and avoid public pronouncements that unwittingly distort the facts," writes Movement for Democratic Change’s secretary for finance and economics, Tendai Biti.