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/ 14 September 2004
At least 47 people were killed in a massive car bomb blast outside the main police headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving a trail of carnage and chaos in a bustling area of the Iraqi capital. Meanwhile, 12 Iraqi policemen and their driver were killed and two others wounded when gunmen sprayed their vehicle with bullets in Baquba.
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/ 14 September 2004
The United States’s largest operator of private prisons expects to benefit from the Bush administration’s expansion of federal police and thinks prison overcrowding could lead to more business. Corrections Corporation of America, which houses about 63 000 inmates in 20 states and the District of Columbia, also told investors that the demographic producing many prisoners — males between 18 to 24 years old — is growing and should create more demand for its services.
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/ 14 September 2004
No settlement talks were underway on Monday, one day before a federal lawsuit seeking -billion from tobacco companies was set to open, United States Department of Justice officials said on Monday. The case alleges that the country’s largest tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels, lied about the dangers of smoking, and targeted young teens with multibillion-dollar advertising campaigns.
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/ 14 September 2004
John Kerry has fallen behind in the three biggest swing states — Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio — which pollsters from both parties believe will be the key to the United States presidential election, it emerged on Monday. Polling figures suggest that George Bush’s surge in support after the Republican convention has settled into a significant lead, confronting John Kerry with difficult tactical choices as he battles to regain the initiative.
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/ 14 September 2004
Suspicion about South Korea’s illicit nuclear activities increased on Monday when UN inspectors said they had further evidence of banned operations and diplomats accused the Seoul government of a cover-up. Opening an International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting in Vienna, the director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said that in the past fortnight its inspectors had found that South Korea had produced 150kg of uranium metal at three locations.
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/ 14 September 2004
President Vladimir Putin made constitutional changes on Monday designed to increase his personal control of the regions and Parliament, saying the government needed ”strengthening” because it had failed at Beslan in its fight against terrorism. He told regional governors, cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats: ”We have not achieved visible results in rooting out terrorism and in destroying its sources.”
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/ 14 September 2004
They were promised an ”unforgettable adventure” but on Monday night the mainly British owners of 70 high-performance cars who entered a Cannonball Run competition across Europe were desperately trying to get their vehicles back from the Spanish police.
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/ 14 September 2004
Oil residue has been spotted on a section of beach between the Réunion Canal and Isipingo beach, south of Durban, the Sapref oil refinery said on Monday. This followed last week’s five tonne oil spill at its single buoy mooring about 2,5km from the shore.
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/ 14 September 2004
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said 27 new councillors had joined its ranks since the start of the floor-crossing period on September 1. Most of the councillors were from the New National Party, Democratic Alliance and Inkatha Freedom Party.
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/ 14 September 2004
They originally came as indentured workers but almost 150 years later, South Africa’s million-plus people of Indian origin have carved out a special place in the country’s political and economic landscape. The community of about 1,2-million people is made up largely of descendants of labourers who worked in sugarcane plantations, most of whom were herded onto ships to South Africa by British colonial rulers.