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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.
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/ 11 November 2004
Israel on Thursday imposed a major clampdown on the occupied territories after Yasser Arafat’s death due to fears of attacks as armed militants loyal to the veteran Palestinian leader vowed to avenge his passing. Immediately following the announcement early on Thursday that Arafat had died in a French hospital, the Israeli army began deploying reinforcements around towns and Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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/ 11 November 2004
Democratic Alliance Western Cape chairperson Kent Morkel says a claim that he took a bribe is "utter nonsense". Micro-loan provider Gilt Edged Management Services on Wednesday agreed to pay R65-million in fines and compensation on two counts of corruption, one of which involved an alleged R10 000 bribe to Morkel.
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/ 11 November 2004
Murderers, thieves and Taliban militants line the gloomy corridors of Kandahar prison, a foul-smelling jail in southern Afghanistan’s main city. But not every inmate is guilty. Muhammad and Sadiqa, a pair of star-crossed teenagers, are locked into grubby cells in separate wings of the prison. Their crime was to fall in love.
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/ 11 November 2004
A 62-year-old Sunninghill man — accused of sodomising and filming three Diepsloot boys — was arrested on Wednesday evening in a police trap, detectives said on Thursday. Pretoria police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said the man was arrested on the old Muldersdrift Road by members of the family violence and sexual offences unit at 6.45pm.
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/ 11 November 2004
At least 10 people were killed, many burnt to death in their cars, when a car bomb exploded in the middle of a traffic jam at the crossroads of a shopping street in Baghdad on Thursday. Flames raged around one car with four children trapped inside after the blast ripped through a line of vehicles.
Hostage killing houses found
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/ 11 November 2004
South African financial institutions are falling through the delivery gap with only one out of two customers perceiving positive value from these providers, a survey conducted by Markinor has found. The study was conducted telephonically among a random sample of 1 332 customers of financial-services companies.
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/ 11 November 2004
For the dozens of Palestinian orphans that Yasser Arafat adopted, brought up and indulged, his demise in a Paris hospital was a very personal torment, as they look back on a blissful childhood. Without ever signing official adoption papers, the veteran leader took personal charge of about 66 children, most of them left parentless after the massacres of the Palestinian camps of Tall Zaatar, and Sabra and Chatilla.