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/ 20 October 2004
Nigeria angrily rejected the results and methodology of the world’s best-known corruption study on Wednesday after being named the third most corrupt of the 145 countries surveyed. Nigeria has been anchored at or around the bottom of Transparency International’s annual corruption index since it was first published.
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/ 20 October 2004
A group of handicapped South Africans has threatened legal action against a local airline for charging extra fees to passengers who need assistance boarding, an MP said on Wednesday. The South African-based Nationwide Airlines will answer to complaints of discrimination before the Equality Court, a Cape Town-based tribunal.
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/ 20 October 2004
South Africa’s employment rate has grown 3% over the past four quarters but that is not enough to halve unemployment by 2010, said economist Mike Schussler in Pretoria on Wednesday. Addressing journalists at a Solidarity union meeting, Schussler nevertheless painted a rosy picture of the South African economy.
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/ 20 October 2004
An egg mixture in a bottle with virtually no fat will go on sale on Thursday in Britain, where a national fat problem of huge proportions has been matched by expanding diet-food sales. The Health Living Liquid Eggs contain the equivalent of five medium-sized eggs in a bottle, but have had almost all the yolk removed.
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/ 20 October 2004
A school bus was torn open in a freak accident on a Johannesburg highway on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 42, many of them children. The bus was taking the children back to Grayston Preparatory after a school outing when its wheel got caught in an open storm-water drain.
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/ 20 October 2004
A United States soldier at the heart of the prisoner-abuse scandal at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a range of charges, from making hooded inmates masturbate to punching them in the chest. The soldier admitted that he thought his actions had been indecent and immoral.
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/ 20 October 2004
Thai authorities will kill about 40 tigers believed to be sick with bird flu after 30 others died at a private zoo, officials said on Wednesday. The decision was made after seven more tigers suspected to have the virus died at Sriracha Tiger Zoo in central Chonburi province. The deaths of 23 other tigers were announced on Tuesday.
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/ 20 October 2004
Gambia has decided to revoke a controversial 2002 media law requiring journalists and the privately owned press to register with a state-run commission, a local radio station reported on Wednesday. Local media and international organisations from the start condemned the media commission.
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/ 20 October 2004
A speeding truck hit three donkeys and rammed into an oncoming tourist vehicle in northern Tanzania, killing 11 people from New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland and Tanzania, police said on Wednesday. Four other people were seriously injured, including some with broken limbs and bruises, said regional police chief James Kombe.