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/ 3 September 2004
Libya signed a deal in Tripoli on Friday to pay -million in compensation to mainly German victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing 18 years ago, an AFP correspondent said. The 1986 bombing at the La Belle discotheque in then West Berlin killed two American GIs and a Turkish woman and wounded more than 250 people.
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/ 3 September 2004
An Indian man has tried to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by feeding a live grass snake into his right nostril and taking it out through his mouth, media reports said on Friday. Last November, the man swallowed 200 earthworms, each measuring at least 10cm, in 30 seconds.
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/ 3 September 2004
Ambulance sirens screamed and naked, bleeding children wailed in the arms of soldiers amid earth-shattering grenade blasts as the three-day school hostage crisis in Beslan ended in a chaotic bloodbath. "They did not give us water," said one young boy. Another naked boy at a different spot later said: "We drank urine."
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/ 3 September 2004
Complaints by feminist groups have forced Bangkok authorities to replace signs that called on women but not men to remain chaste on city buses where Thai youths are known to have sex, an official said on Friday. The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority on Friday began posting improved versions of the signs.
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/ 3 September 2004
The trade union Solidarity on Friday said it finds it regrettable that oil and chemicals group Sasol has not invited organised labour to join in the internal inquiry into the recent explosion at its Secunda ethylene plant. The death toll from the blast on Wednesday at Sasol Secunda ethylene plant remains at six.
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/ 3 September 2004
Austrian historians are ridiculing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and left a ”socialist” country when he moved away in 1968. ”I saw tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes,” Schwarzenegger said.
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/ 3 September 2004
Apple unveiled the third generation of its iMac range of computers this week, showing off machines housed in all-in-one cases that incorporate the processors, disk drives and screen in a box that is only about 5cm thick. The range was unveiled by Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing, at the start of the five-day Apple expo in Paris.
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/ 3 September 2004
The long avenues in West Palm Beach are deserted, stores are closed and shuttered, here and there a man struggles in the damp wind to board up his windows against the impending menace of Hurricane Frances, the worst storm to hit the state of Florida in 10 years. Frances should make landfall in Florida at 8pm local time on Saturday.
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/ 3 September 2004
Up to 30 000 priceless books may have been destroyed by a fire that swept through a historic library in the eastern German city of Weimar, authorities said on Friday. The blaze broke out late on Thursday, destroying part of the roof and the top floor of the 17th-century Anna-Amalia library and spreading through the lower floors.
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/ 3 September 2004
Iraq’s senior Sunni Muslim scholars said on Friday that two French reporters held hostage for two weeks are out of danger and their release is ”a matter of time”. Reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot were kidnapped by a radical Sunni group demanding Paris rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.