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/ 12 November 2004
Despite criticism he is beholden to the interests of big business, recently re-elected United States President George Bush appears to have driven a strong, principled and effective pro-Africa policy, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. ”There are aspects of the Bush presidency that deserve a closer look,” Leon states in his weekly newsletter.
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/ 12 November 2004
The government is being misled into believing the minibus taxi recapitalisation programme will work before it is tested, the Top Six Taxi Management said on Friday. ”There is no doubt that the government is being misled into believing the project will be implemented without a pilot run,” said a Top Six spokesperson.
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/ 12 November 2004
Yasser Arafat was laid to rest in a marble-and-stone grave at his battered Muqataa headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday after his flag-draped coffin was borne through a sea of emotional Palestinians who swarmed the helicopter that brought him from a state funeral in Egypt.
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/ 12 November 2004
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said late on Thursday that Angola’s first post-war presidential election should be held a year after parliamentary polls. While he did not give a date, his ruling Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), maintains that elections be held in 2006 on the proviso that a new Constitution is approved.
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/ 12 November 2004
Four former Microsoft employees were charged with stealing ,4-million worth of software and selling it on the side. According to the complaint filed on Monday, the employees ordered software available to Microsoft employees for free to use for business purposes, then sold it to online software retailers.
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/ 12 November 2004
At least 16 people were killed and 100 injured, many seriously, on Friday after a succession of earthquakes measuring at least six on the Richter scale rocked an island in eastern Indonesia, police said. The quake, which was felt in the nearby country of East Timor, left hospitals struggling to cope with the wounded.
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/ 12 November 2004
A heart-warming comic book about a stray dog on the streets of Bangkok who won the heart of Thailand’s much-loved King Bhumibol Adulyadej, hit the kingdom’s bookstores on Friday, said the publisher. The king himself penned the original story of Tongdaeng, or ”Copper” who was sent to the royal palace as a tiny puppy.
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/ 12 November 2004
Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least "37 serious atrocities, including three or four attested rapes", a French representative in Côte d’Ivoire, Catherine Rechenmann, said on Friday. In Paris, a French military source said several dozen white women were raped.
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/ 12 November 2004
The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who publicly accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat, attended the Palestinian leader’s funeral on Friday in Cairo, in a rare public appearance for a man believed to be a walking target of the Israeli military.