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A draft United Nations resolution on the Sudan crisis is scheduled to be discussed by security council members in New York on Thursday. It has been drawn up by the United States and calls for the African Union monitoring force in Darfur to be enlarged and given a wider mandate.
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/ 9 September 2004
The strike at South African oil and chemicals group Sasol’s coal mine in Secunda has reached its third day. More than 1 000 striking Solidarity members resumed their protest action on Thursday morning. Trade union Solidarity added that the theme of the strike is "Sasol management style gambles with the lives of its workers".
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/ 9 September 2004
A free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States will have a range of benefits for ordinary South Africans and would also make the country "more attractive" as a foreign investment destination, said John Taylor, the US Under Secretary for International Affairs in the Treasury.
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/ 9 September 2004
Seventeen people were killed and 51 wounded a fresh onslaught overnight by United States and Iraqi forces on the town of Tall Afar in northern Iraq, a hospital official said on Thursday. The bombardments began at 2am (10pm GMT on Wednesday) and continued for seven hours, an AFP correspondent said.
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/ 9 September 2004
It is a demanding time to be a Cabinet minister. With President Thabo Mbeki pressing hard for progress on major initiatives in economic development, service delivery and social welfare, departments are working to a rigorous, and very public, timetable. Tough deadlines and public exposure keep Cabinet hopping.
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/ 9 September 2004
A powerful explosion went off outside the Australian embassy in central Jakarta on Thursday, killing up to nine people and injuring as many as 100 injured in the blast, sources said. Officials at the nearby MMC Hospital in the Kuningan district, home to many foreign embassies, said that five Indonesians had been killed, including an embassy security guard and driver, and 99 others were brought to the hospital for treatment.
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/ 9 September 2004
Parliament did not approve a court application to stop the Mail & Guardian publishing allegations of irregularities in the National Council of Provinces, it emerged on Wednesday. ”I mistakenly assumed that Parliaments’ presiding officers authorised this application. This was not the case,” said NCOP office manager Moroka Butcher Matutle.
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/ 9 September 2004
Stunned British and American scientists watched a seven-year dream fall to Earth on Wednesday at 240kph, potentially smashing the fruits of a -million mission. A parachute failed to open, and a capsule filled with particles trapped directly from the sun dropped like a stone from the edge of space and hit the muddy sands of the Utah desert with a thud.
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/ 9 September 2004
Two more men arrested in different South African towns in an international probe into weapons of mass destruction may appear in court on Thursday. This follows the sudden and unexplained withdrawal of charges against another accused in Vanderbijlpark on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2004
The South African government is denying thousands of Zimbabwean refugees their right to political asylum, says a report published on Thursday by Refugees International. ”Genuine refugees are prevented from getting asylum,” said Andrea Lari, a researcher for the organisation.