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World oil prices rose on Monday after union leaders announced plans for an indefinite general strike in Nigeria, Africa’s largest exporter of crude, to begin later this month, traders said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, rose 49 cents to ,25 a barrel in electronic trading.
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/ 1 November 2004
I do have to admit that I feel a bit like Rip van Winkle, whoever he might have been. I have been out on the road for a month, which seems like a short space of time when you think about if from one perspective, but is really a lifetime when you look at it from another point of view. The world passes beneath your feet in real time while you’re out there. Meanwhile, back home, seismic changes are rumbling like there’s no tomorrow.
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/ 1 November 2004
A Hong Kong company was on Monday struggling to keep pace with demand for a belching, wolf-whistling robot expected to be one of the bestselling toys worldwide this Christmas. Shops across the United Kingdom and United States have sold out of the hi-tech Robosapien, which also breaks wind and snores.
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/ 1 November 2004
Newly designed 1 000 yen, 5 000 yen and 10 000 yen Japanese banknotes with embedded anti-counterfeiting technologies went into circulation on Monday. Japan has been seeing an increasing number of forged banknotes, with 14 000 fake bills found in the first six months of this year.
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/ 1 November 2004
Ultra-Orthodox volunteers were picking through the debris of fruit and vegetables on Monday as they tried to retrieve body parts of the victims of a suicide bombing in a cramped Tel Aviv marketplace. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, currently in hospital outside Paris, condemned the deadly suicide bombing.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=124718">Market blast rocks Tel Aviv</a>
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/ 1 November 2004
The deputy governor of Baghdad was shot dead on his way to work on Monday, in the latest attack by insurgents against the United States-backed Iraqi regime. Hatim Kamil was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car in the southern Doura neighbourhood, an interior ministry spokesperson said. Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack.
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/ 1 November 2004
DNA tests soon may solve a century-old mystery — whether a skull held by the International Mozarteum Foundation is part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s remains. Archaeologists have opened a grave in Salzburg thought to contain the remains of Mozart’s father and other relatives.
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/ 1 November 2004
A Namibian national accused of assaulting and attempting to rape a Pretoria advocate was granted R50 000 bail in the city’s magistrate’s court on Monday, radio news reported. Twenty-year-old Ismail ”Zondi” Ashipembe is the grandson of the third secretary at the Namibian High Commission.
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/ 1 November 2004
The Chambers of Commerce and Industry of South Africa (Chamsa) has welcomed the South African government’s commitment to low inflation — but says a thick-point definition of the target should be introduced. Chamsa also said value-added tax (VAT) should be increased by 1% to raise about R6,5-billion in tax revenue.
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/ 1 November 2004
War-ravaged Burundi’s transitional President, Domitien Ndayizeye, said on Monday he will retire from politics at the end of his term in office, which is due to expire in April next year. ”The last 18 months have been very tiring. I feel old enough not to continue in politics,” Ndayizeye, who is 52, told reporters.