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/ 3 November 2004
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday banned the import of two male sexual stimulant diet supplements sold on the internet, saying they contain an undeclared prescription drug ingredient. It said the products were found to contain prescription-strength quantities of sildenafil … the active drug ingredient in Viagra.”
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/ 3 November 2004
A top police officer said on Wednesday he stands by a document in which he listed Cape Town attorney Harry Snitcher as part of the Mafia’s organisation in the Western Cape. Captain Piet Viljoen was testifying in proceedings in which Italian prosecutors are questioning witnesses on the affairs of alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo.
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/ 3 November 2004
Californians voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to become the first American state to fund controversial embryonic stem-cell research that was effectively banned by President George Bush, United States media reported. The emotionally and politically charged Proposition 71 passed by 64% against 36% opposition, CNN reported.
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/ 3 November 2004
An apparently mentally deranged man jumped into the lions’ pit at Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to ”talk” to the lions, but was rescued with only a minor bite on his foot. Chen Chung-ho (46) leapt into the pit at about 11am and walked toward a pair of sleeping lions, waving his jacket and talking to the big cats.
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/ 3 November 2004
Three days after Burundi’s interim Constitution came into effect, fighting among the major political parties has not broken out as many people had feared, and leaders who once advocated violence now agree to submit to the constitutional authority. A referendum on a draft Constitution has been delayed to November 26 this year.
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/ 3 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was higher by Wednesday afternoon on the weaker rand, but off its earlier highs. Gold was last quoted at $421,75/oz from Tuesday’s JSE close of $420,40/oz. By midday, the all-share index was up 0,43% and the industrial index added 0,47%.
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/ 3 November 2004
Even though average South African house prices have risen by more than 30% year-on-year in the first nine months of this year, the South African residential property market is considered to be in a strong rising phase, rather than experiencing bubble conditions, according to South African commercial bank Absa.
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/ 3 November 2004
Alleged Mafia boss Vito Palazzolo had links to Western Cape drug lord Rashied Staggie, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. This was testimony from crack police investigator Captain Piet Viljoen, one of a series of witnesses who have been subpoenaed to answer Italian prosecutors’ questions on Palazzolo.
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/ 3 November 2004
Theo van Gogh, the Dutch artist’s great grand-nephew and a provocative filmmaker, was shot dead in a street in Amsterdam on Tuesday, police said, apparently because of a film he made about Islamic violence against women. The suspected killer, a 26-year-old man with dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality, fled into the nearby Oosterpark and was later arrested after a gunfight with police.
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/ 3 November 2004
South African gold-mining group Harmony has called on rival Gold Fields to avoid a battle that will only enrich lawyers and reconsider a merger bid that will create the world’s largest gold-mining group. The appeal was made by Harmony CEO Barnard Swanepoel in an open letter to his Gold Fields counterpart, Ian Cockerill.
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