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/ 30 September 2004
Playing in the one day international series in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe was never an option for England’s cricketing star Andrew Flintoff, he revealed on Wednesday. Flintoff had officially been left out of the squad so he could rest but the indomitable Lancashire all-rounder, and the biggest draw in the England side, refused to lie down and contrary to what the selectors had announced on Tuesday said he wouldn’t have gone anyway.
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/ 30 September 2004
An inquiry probing allegations of racism against the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU), made by 15 sacked white players, ran into early problems when it got under way in Harare on Wednesday. The first was when three of the players — former captain Heath Streak, batsman Stuart Carlisle and all-rounder Trevor Gripper, who had waited several hours to give evidence — insisted that ZCU directors should not be allowed to listen to their evidence as they would feel inhibited.
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/ 29 September 2004
Seismologists believe they have pinpointed the source of a mysterious low-frequency ”hum” that emanates from the Earth, the British science journal Nature reports in Thursday’s issue. The persistent noise — at between two and seven milliHertz, way below the threshold of human hearing — is clearly caused by large emissions of energy near or at the Earth’s surface.
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/ 29 September 2004
Ethiopia and Eritrea — two of the world’s poorest countries — are paying ”a big price” for failing to resolve a simmering border dispute, a United Nations envoy said on Wednesday. Lloyd Axworthy, the UN Secretary General’s special envoy to Ethiopia and Eritrea, said his staff are trying to determine how much the ongoing dispute has cost the two countries.
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/ 29 September 2004
Kanellie Hatzikonstandinou, accused of murdering an 81-year-old shopper at the Cresta shopping centre in Johannesburg on Monday, appeared in the Randburg Regional Court on Wednesday. Her tearful father, Iounno Hatzikonstandinou, entered the dock and before giving her a hug, said in a Greek accent: ”I want to apologise for what happened… I am saying sorry to the family.”
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/ 29 September 2004
Switzerland on Wednesday gave French authorities bank documents seized in an investigation of alleged money laundering linked to illicit arms sales to Angola. The Justice Ministry said the handover included information on seven frozen bank accounts and was made possible by a government decision that helping France in its ”Angolagate” inquiry would not compromise Switzerland’s national interests.
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/ 29 September 2004
Experts say childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, with 155-million school age kids overweight or just plain fat. South Africa is no exception. According to the Heart Foundation, 12% of children in the country are
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/ 29 September 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki has poked fun at newspaper speculation about his successor, saying two correct predictions had been made. He stated at the South African Local Government Association conference at a convention centre in Cape Town on Wednesday: ”I have been told that some in our media have very recently been involved in a strange debate evidently to answer the question — what happens when Mbeki goes?!”
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/ 29 September 2004
HIV/Aids rates in northern Uganda are nearly twice as high as the rest of the country because of an 18-year war.