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Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada with ”hellacious winds”, collapsing concrete homes into piles of rubble and hurling the island’s landmark red zinc roofs through the air. The most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 10 years also damaged homes in Barbados, St Lucia and St Vincent.
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/ 8 September 2004
Typhoon Songda became the worst typhoon to hit Japan in recent years, leaving at least 24 dead by Wednesday morning with the toll expected to rise, authorities and news reports said. The typhoon has injured more than 700 people since Tuesday, when it struck south-western Japan. Another 15 people were reported missing.
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/ 8 September 2004
Some Taiwanese towns are famous for their clay teapots, others for their ornate painted umbrellas. But this grimy industrial city wants to be remembered for something completely foreign. Barbie. When United States toy maker Mattel began outsourcing Barbie-making jobs to Asia, Taishan was among the first to get a factory, in 1967.
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/ 8 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in positive territory in noon trade on Wednesday, with a weaker rand fuelling a rally in heavyweight resources stocks. However, volumes were light as the market adopted a cautious approach ahead of key testimony by United States Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan later in the day.
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/ 8 September 2004
A lawyer for alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter Mark Thatcher confirmed on Wednesday that a subpoena had been issued for his client’s appearance in the Wynberg Regional Court. ”We still have to examine the subpoena,” said Alan Bruce-Brand. Bruce-Brand said the subpoena provided for Thatcher to go for questioning at the court on September 22.
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/ 8 September 2004
United States President George Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry clashed on Tuesday over the US economy and the Iraq war as the US military death toll reached 1Â 000. Bush seized on Kerry’s latest criticism of the US-led war in Iraq as a new sign of the Massachusetts senator’s indecision, which Republicans have sought to highlight in the campaign for the November 2 vote.
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/ 8 September 2004
Bald men who feel self-conscious about their looks can now take comfort in a survey indicating that their hair loss can mean they will earn a healthier income. The survey published in Hong Kong on Wednesday found that the more money a man earns, the more likely he is to be losing his hair.
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/ 8 September 2004
The government’s wage offer to public service employees is in line with a commitment to improve the quality of life for all South Africans, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday. Public sector unions decided on Monday to embark on industrial action following their rejection of government’s six percent wage increase offer.
Matric preparations threatened by strike
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/ 8 September 2004
South African police have arrested a local priest for conducting at least 600 fake marriages between foreigners seeking South African nationality and unsuspecting local women, a police statement said on Tuesday. Hendrik Uys Jansen (39) who was also a registered marriage officer, conducted ”at least 600 fake marriages” since 2003, at his home in Pretoria, the statement said.