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The Palestinian leadership divided up the spoils of Yasser Arafat’s power on Thursday, as Parliament Speaker Rawhi Fattuh was sworn in as acting head of the Palestinian Authority and ex-premier Mahmud Abbas became the new Palestine Liberation Organisation supremo.
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/ 11 November 2004
Nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu was arrested on Thursday for allegedly revealing classified information, seven months after he completed an 18-year prison sentence for treason, police said. Police spokesperson Gil Kleiman said Vanunu was detained at his rented rooms in Jerusalem’s St George’s church, but declined to discuss the nature of his alleged disclosures.
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/ 11 November 2004
Recently sighted at a lifestyle trade show in Germany: a gizmo by the name of ”Nemo” that flashes and beeps at you from inside the fridge when the milk has gone off or the meat is bad. Older people don’t smell or see as well as they used to, but they will notice the fishy warning after learning to love the little fish from Finding Nemo.
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/ 11 November 2004
Lazy pet owners shying away from the demands of dogs, cats or even goldfish are delighting in ants and shrimp that fend for themselves in self-contained ecosystems. The latest craze among workaholic Singaporeans are creatures that never need feeding or pats, but are fascinating to observe.
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/ 11 November 2004
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has promised an independent inquiry into an escape attempt from the C-Max prison in Pretoria on Sunday in which two officials were killed. Speaking at a memorial service on Thursday for the two men, Balfour also proposed periodic security checks of guards and electronic monitoring equipment.
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/ 11 November 2004
If you’re concerned about cancer, skip the braai but enjoy the biltong, say researchers at the University of the Free State. In a paper published in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal, they have described the results of a battery of tests on nine volunteers fed a biltong-enriched diet over five days.
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/ 11 November 2004
Burundi’s dominant ethnic Tutsi party on Thursday asked President Dominitien Ndayizeye to name an ally of a former military ruler as the new vice-president in line with the country’s fragile power-sharing agreement, officials said. Other political parties representing the Tutsi minority also want the vice-presidency.
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/ 11 November 2004
A Nigerian court has rejected a bid by a former security chief to stop his trial for the attempted murder of a newspaper publisher and former minister in 1996, court officials said on Thursday. The trial, which has been adjourned several times, has made little progress because of legal technicalities raised by the defence.
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/ 11 November 2004
Rwandan lawmakers are studying a Bill that accuses France of ”misunderstanding and downplaying” the 1994 genocide in which, according to Kigali, about one million people, mostly minority Tutsis, were killed. The draft law paves the way for the creation of a commission to examine France’s role in the 100-day killing spree.
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/ 11 November 2004
United States marines and Iraqi troops occupied about three-quarters of Fallujah on Thursday, but were facing an enormous task in rooting out determined insurgents, many of whom appeared to have gone underground. It was unclear how many insurgents died in the battle. In the dusty streets, cats fed off the corpses.