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The campaign to get cheap Aids drugs to millions of Africans was dealt a blow on Wednesday when a manufacturer in India admitted it could not prove the quality of its medicines and withdrew them from the list approved by the World Health Organisation.
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French and United Nations troops on Wednesday began evacuating from Côte d’Ivoire thousands of terrified expatriates who fled their homes after a frenzy of mob violence by pro-government gangs cost the lives of 27 people.”The government is pushing to kill white people — not just the French, all white people,” said Marie Noel Mion, rescued by a wooden boat at daybreak on Wednesday.
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/ 11 November 2004
It’s the same dilemma every holiday season: what to buy as a present for mum and dad. It’s easier to pick something for girlfriends, boyfriends, brothers and sisters. But often nothing comes to mind for your parents. The big day approaches, and in a panic you buy dad a tie and mum some perfumed soap.
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/ 11 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki has joined the international community in expressing sorrow and a deep sense of sadness at the passing away "of that icon of the Palestinian struggle, President Yasser Arafat". The ruling African National Congress and other parties have also paid tribute to Arafat.
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/ 11 November 2004
United States and Iraqi troops fighting for control of Fallujah on Wednesday uncovered several ”hostage slaughter houses” where kidnap victims had been murdered, a senior Iraqi general said. The buildings were littered, he said, with debris, including lists of names of hostages.
US forces claim 70% of Fallujah
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United States President George Bush named Alberto Gonzales, the White House lawyer who advised him he could disregard the ”obsolete” Geneva conventions, as the US’s new attorney general on Wednesday. Unveiling the first new Cabinet appointment since his re-election last week, Bush said the 49-year-old had already been instrumental in the war on terror.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan early on Thursday was ”deeply moved” by the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who ”symbolised … the national aspirations of the Palestinian people”, Annan’s spokesperson said in a statement. The passing away of Arafat, Annan said, must intensify the search for peace in the Middle East. Palestinians reacted with tears and tributes to news of Arafat’s death.
Arafat ‘in the hands of God’
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/ 11 November 2004
The Klipdrift consumption in the Dorsbult has reached crisis proportions since Tuesday last week. But a message from Michael Moore — yes, he of <i>Fahrenheit 9/11</i> fame/notoriety (and, in the Dorsbult, hero worship; well, ok, among some of us) — has done his bit to cheer us up. He offers "17 reasons not to slit your wrists", a few of which follow …
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/ 11 November 2004
‘My hand," Yasser Arafat once said, "is the only hand that can sign a peace agreement with Israel." The assertion may sound vainglorious, but it was undoubtedly true. Israelis may yet come to rue the death of the 75-year-old Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader they refused to deal with for so long, and spent so much time demonising.
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Airliners were shuttling hundreds of trapped foreigners out of Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday, as South Africa convened urgent peace talks on a crisis that it said threatens to destabilise West Africa. The mayhem has been unanimously condemned by President Laurent Gbagbo’s fellow African leaders.