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Three hippos attacked and killed a zebra they had lived alongside for 12 years in front of shocked visitors at Basel Zoo in Switzerland, authorities said on Thursday. Kalungu, a 17-year-old male zebra, was knocked into the water and mauled after he bit the lip of hippo Wilhelm during the animals’ daily ritual to establish territory.
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/ 14 October 2004
Cape Town conservation authorities are increasingly considering capturing a young hippopotamus that has been on the run for a couple of weeks after escaping from the Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve. The hippo has captured the public’s imagination. So far, passive capture methods have proved unsuccessful.
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/ 14 October 2004
The Israeli army on Wednesday suspended an officer who is accused of firing up to 20 bullets into a 13-year-old Palestinian as she lay on the ground after having been shot from an army outpost. Another schoolgirl died on Wednesday after being shot while sitting at her school desk.
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/ 14 October 2004
Nasdaq-listed multinational technology group Novell fully backs the black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the sector and is looking forward to concluding a BEE deal soon, Novell SA managing director Stafford Masie said on Thursday.
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/ 14 October 2004
The African National Congress has rejected media speculation that it is opening debate on who is to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as South African leader. In a statement on Thursday — in response to such speculation — the party said it wants to clarify a number of issues regarding the leadership succession.
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/ 14 October 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has urged the country’s Catholic Church to free itself from Western donations that are likely to ”suppress its voice”. ”In my view, the church … should extricate itself from offers of assistance that suppress its voice,” Mugabe said while addressing a meeting of regional Catholic bishops.
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/ 14 October 2004
Somali veteran politician and soldier Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was sworn in as the new president of his Horn of Africa country on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Yusuf, who was elected on Sunday by members of his country’s transitional Parliament, took the oath of office before several African presidents.
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/ 14 October 2004
For Eitan Braun, a Jewish settler in the Gaza Strip, the equation is simple: "If Ariel Sharon falls, I get to keep my house." If the Israeli Prime Minister has his way, Braun and 8 000 fellow settlers will be uprooted from their homes next year as part of a wider plan that also envisages the strengthening of Israeli control over West Bank settlements.
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/ 14 October 2004
The heirs of a victim of Germany’s Nazi rule on Wednesday sued screen icon Elizabeth Taylor for ownership of a Van Gogh painting they claim rightfully belongs to them. The South African and Canadian descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Germany in the late 1930s say the actress should have known the painting had been stolen by the Nazis.