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/ 10 November 2004
Built on the remains of an ancient volcano, Exeter’s historic Crown Court carries the distinction of convicting the last witch to be executed in England. On Wednesday, after centuries of dispensing justice, the court moved from its original site in the city centre to a new, multi-million pound home across town.
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/ 10 November 2004
Banks will provide finance to an empowerment consortium with close links to the African National Congress that is to buy a 15,1% stake in Telkom for R6-billion, the party confirmed on Wednesday. The deal has drawn criticism from opposition parties and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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/ 10 November 2004
Some traffic offenders in Tshwane can now pay their fines at automated teller machines. Following the success of a First National Bank pilot project launched in June last year in Potchefstroom in the North West, Tshwane recently became the first metropolitan area to benefit from the service.
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/ 10 November 2004
An estimated 15% of babies born in Lesotho become infected with HIV each year, the Lesotho government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Wednesday. Unicef and the government released a mid-term review on Wednesday of their programme of cooperation for 2002 to 2007.
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/ 10 November 2004
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still alive but ”in the hands of God”, the Palestinian representative in France, Leila Shahid, said on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, Israel gave the go-ahead for Arafat’s eventual burial to take place at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, officials said.
Arafat close to death, say officials
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/ 10 November 2004
The number of Zimbabweans living in rural areas who will soon require food aid is likely to be higher than earlier estimated because food prices are rising, a regional food watchdog has warned. A report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network says earlier estimates, which showed 2,2-million rural Zimbabweans would need food aid, will have to be revised.
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/ 10 November 2004
Japan was on alert on Wednesday after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, setting off a chase on the high sea amid mounting disputes between the Asian powers. The incident comes amid a series of disputes between Japan and China, including friction over gas-exploration rights in the East China Sea.
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/ 10 November 2004
Women in India, home to the world’s second-largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to Aids.
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/ 10 November 2004
Germany’s former chancellor Helmut Kohl on Tuesday admitted that 15 years after the demise of the Berlin Wall the divisions between East and West Germany ran ”much deeper” than he had originally anticipated. Speaking on the anniversary of the wall’s fall on November 9 1989, Kohl said that Germans had ”every reason to be proud” of their country.
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/ 10 November 2004
An express bus driver on drugs took eight terror-stricken passengers along on a half-hour high-speed police chase in Malaysia’s northern Terengganu state, a report said on Wednesday. The driver, who roared off after being flagged down in a routine speed trap, rammed one of the two police cars chasing his bus in an attempt to run it off the road.