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/ 30 September 2004
Playing in the one day international series in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe was never an option for England’s cricketing star Andrew Flintoff, he revealed on Wednesday. Flintoff had officially been left out of the squad so he could rest but the indomitable Lancashire all-rounder, and the biggest draw in the England side, refused to lie down and contrary to what the selectors had announced on Tuesday said he wouldn’t have gone anyway.
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/ 30 September 2004
For the first time in nearly five years, the International Boxing Federation is operating without a court-appointed monitor. United States District Judge John Bissell on Wednesday ended the supervision he had imposed on the sanctioning organisation after federal authorities moved against the group and its founder in 1999, charging that rankings could be bought.
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/ 30 September 2004
Arsenal’s capacity for shooting themselves in the foot in Europe surfaced again on Wednesday as the English champions laboured to a 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. Roar Strand’s 52nd-minute strike earned the Norwegian champions, hopelessly out of their depth in the opening period, their first point in group E after Freddie Ljungberg had given Arsenal a sixth-minute lead.
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/ 30 September 2004
Former world number one Kim Clijsters made a winning return to the WTA victory against Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic in the second round of the 000-tournament in Hasselt, Belgium. The second seeded Clijsters will now face either countrywoman Els Callens or Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria in the quarterfinals.
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/ 30 September 2004
Since the front section of this paper seems to be getting all the good stories, Oom Krisjan is happy to be the first to bring details of Travelgate II. On a recent whip-around of city press clubs to tell the public why they are not a bunch of high-flying gadabouts, the speakers of the National Assembly and the National Council of Whatever all arrived in the Big Smoke on the same plane. Definitely a step in the right direction, you’d say.
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/ 30 September 2004
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein dismissed an urgent bail application by alleged Boeremag member Adriaan van Wyk on Wednesday. Van Wyk is one of the 22 accused in the Boeremag trial in the Pretoria High Court. They are charged with treason, murder and attempted murder. Van Wyk was earlier denied bail in the Pretoria High Court, which found he could prove no unusual circumstances requiring his release on bail.
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/ 30 September 2004
What is most likely to swing the US election one way or the other? Bush and Kerry reckon it’s sex appeal. With six weeks to go before the presidential election, one of the best ways to find out how a woman is likely to vote is to check her ring finger. Gary Younge comments on two misguided campaigns to woo the single American woman.
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/ 29 September 2004
Seismologists believe they have pinpointed the source of a mysterious low-frequency ”hum” that emanates from the Earth, the British science journal Nature reports in Thursday’s issue. The persistent noise — at between two and seven milliHertz, way below the threshold of human hearing — is clearly caused by large emissions of energy near or at the Earth’s surface.
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/ 29 September 2004
Ethiopia and Eritrea — two of the world’s poorest countries — are paying ”a big price” for failing to resolve a simmering border dispute, a United Nations envoy said on Wednesday. Lloyd Axworthy, the UN Secretary General’s special envoy to Ethiopia and Eritrea, said his staff are trying to determine how much the ongoing dispute has cost the two countries.