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/ 12 February 2005
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, will confront militant leaders tonight to demand that they stop firing mortars and rockets at Israeli settlements and towns. Dozens of missiles were launched on Thursday after Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in separate incidents.
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/ 11 February 2005
Roman Abramovich has poured money into Stamford Bridge and his roubles seem to have duly delivered the championship. But is buying success best for the game? Here are two different views on the matter. Will Buckley doesn’t mind the money, while Ian Ridley presents the case against.
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/ 11 February 2005
A militant group of Manchester United fans this week threatened a renewed and potentially more violent phase of its campaign to keep Malcolm Glazer from taking control of the club. The group calls itself the Manchester Education Committee and has been responsible for ”direct action” against those it suspects of involvement in any takeover.
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/ 11 February 2005
South Africa is on track concerning the implementation of the country’s broad macroeconomic policies as developed over the past few years and outlined in his State of Nation speech a year ago, according to President Thabo Mbeki. He was addressing MPs in his annual State of the Nation address on Friday.
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/ 11 February 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Ray is a likely contender for an Oscar this year — firstly, because the Academy can never resist a portrayal of a disabled person, and also because it adores a tale of truimph over adversity. And a worthy contender it is, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 11 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has accepted Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson’s request to retire from the Bench. Delivering his State of the Nation address to a joint sitting of Parliament on Friday — attended by Chaskalson — Mbeki paid tribute to the Chief Justice, calling him a giant among South Africans.
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/ 11 February 2005
Hundreds of rioting convicts in the city of Cordoba are holding a prison warden and 75 people hostage, threatening to throw some of them off the roof, while two inmates and a police officer were killed in a jail-break attempt, officials said early on Friday. Armed inmates atop the prison roof threatened to throw some prison guards to the pavement below.
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/ 11 February 2005
More than 400 people are still missing in a remote area of south-western Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, a provincial official said on Friday. At least 35 people have been confirmed dead, and more than 1Â 200 villagers have been pulled alive from the waters.
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/ 11 February 2005
The United Nations Security Council has started working on a resolution to establish a peacekeeping operation in Sudan to support the peace process, said the Council’s President, Ambassador Joel Adechi of Benin. The council discussed the implementation of the Sudanese peace agreement and a number of issues related to the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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/ 11 February 2005
A large cache of weapons and ammunition was found by the police’s national intervention unit in Mqanduli, Transkei on Thursday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Sipho Sizani said the bust followed information about a 34-year-old ex-soldier, who was training people to use firearms.