Deaths on South African roads at 1215 for December 2005

Thursday, January 5, 2006 According to the South African government’s Department of Transport, the number of fatalities on the country’s roads during December 2005 was 1,215. This is compared with 1,234 the previous year, where the total number of deaths in traffic accidents was 10,530. Department of Transport spokeswoman, Collen…

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Getting Hitched With My Girlfriend

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Australia Caravan Insurance Caravan Insurance Submitted by: Adrian Gowels For me one of the best things that ever happened was getting hitched with my long time girlfriend. Even getting engaged to her took me around one year. We met each other at a…

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Fidel Castro temporarily hands power to his brother Raul

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 President Fidel Castro of Cuba has temporarily handed duties, including command of the military forces, to his brother, Raúl Castro. Fidel Castro is undergoing intestinal surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, and is temporarily unable to govern. 75-year-old Raúl Castro has been the Vice-President of Cuba and number…

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Asian countries call for global currency

Monday, April 6, 2009 Leaders and central banks in Russia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Kazakhstan have called for an international currency system. Speaking on April 1 in advance of the G-20 summit in London, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev argued that the international finance system needed a “new construction” including…

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Former WorldCom chief found guilty of all charges

Tuesday, March 15, 2005A federal jury found Bernard Ebbers guilty on all nine counts in an indictment for fraud, conspiracy and false regulatory filings. The verdict was handed down by a New York jury after 8 days of deliberation on the former WorldCom CEO and mastermind behind the accounting scandal…

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