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/ 26 October 2004
A senior Greek prosecutor on Tuesday postponed announcing the results of a two-month investigation into disgraced Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. The pair withdrew from the Athens Olympics after missing a doping test and being involved in a suspicious motorcycle accident.
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/ 25 October 2004
Africa’s top Anglican bishops on Monday announced plans for a network of theological colleges to promote traditional beliefs after clashing with some Western churches over what one termed the ”abomination” of homosexuality. About 300 Anglican bishops from across Africa are gathering in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
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/ 25 October 2004
After almost two million ballots were discounted in 2000 in a presidential election that was decided by 537 votes in Florida, this year’s United States election should be far more accurate, USA Today reported on Monday, citing better ballot design, new voting machines and voter education.
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/ 25 October 2004
The BBC, the world’s biggest public broadcaster, is to cut almost a quarter of its 28 000-strong workforce, in the biggest shake-up in its 82-year history, The Times newspaper in London said on Monday. A BBC spokesperson said the staff losses quoted in The Times are ”all purely speculative at this point”.
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/ 25 October 2004
In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court ruled on Monday in favour of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) request to televise Mark Thatcher’s civil case on Tuesday. Thatcher has been implicated in a botched coup in Equatorial Guinea and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
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/ 25 October 2004
Two Buddhist monks abandoned their vows after they fell in love with a pair of teenage girls who sold beer across from their temple in central Cambodia, a newspaper reported on Monday. The two monks — Nang Pong and Vom Vong, both 19 — gave up their monastic lives on Thursday.
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/ 25 October 2004
Cambodia’s notorious underwear thieves have struck again, shooting and seriously wounding a motorbike taxi driver just outside the capital, local media said on Monday. The gang earned its name because its members wear nothing but underpants, but wield AK-47s.
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/ 25 October 2004
A Kenyan man who has married 130 women in 65 years says that ”dictatorship and hard work” is required to make a polygamous family happy and productive. Eighty-five-year-old Ancentus Akuku, also known as ”Danger”, lives in Homa Bay on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya.
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/ 25 October 2004
Only 200 of an expected 5 000 residents marched on the Natalspruit hospital in Katlehong on Monday afternoon to demand a response to a memorandum handed to the hospital’s management last month. One of the marchers, Patricia Mkani, said nothing seems to be going right at the hospital.