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British insurance group Prudential unveiled on Thursday a friendly bid to purchase the minority 21,7% stake of online banking arm Egg which it does not already own. "The boards of Prudential and Egg are pleased to announce the terms of a recommended offer," the two groups said in a joint statement.
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/ 1 December 2005
A teenage girl in KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested for stealing her friend’s two-month-old son in Ubombo near Umfolozi, police said on Thursday. Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said the 18-year-old girl snatched the baby while visiting his mother, Simo Phethelaphi Ngobe (22).
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/ 1 December 2005
Denis Lindsay, the famous South African cricketer of the 1960s, died in Johannesburg on Wednesday night at the age of 66 as the result of a short illness. Ali Bacher, who played with Lindsay in various Test teams of that era and captained him during the victorious 1969-70 series over Australia, said on Thursday: ”Denis was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder earlier this year and it spread.”
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/ 1 December 2005
Football’s world governing body Fifa will wait until March next year before deciding whether to use an electronically chipped ball at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. Fifa spokesperson Markus Siegler said there would be a meeting in March to discuss the tests of the chipped ball and decide whether it is ready for the 2006 finals, running from June 9 until July 9.
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Events marking World Aids Day were cancelled by royal decree on Thursday in Africa’s last absolute monarchy because they clashed with a traditional ceremony scheduled for the same day. The announcement shocked activists in a country where more than 38% of the one-million population are infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
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/ 1 December 2005
Earthquake survivors in Pakistan said on Thursday they fear for their future as a bitter winter intensifies and their life in makeshift tent camps becomes more miserable with each passing day. Almost eight weeks after the devastating October 8 disaster, which killed more than 73 000 people, the fate of the 3,5-million others who were left homeless is far from secure.
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/ 1 December 2005
Ethiopia has indicated its willingness to comply with a recent United Nations resolution demanding the country and neighbouring Eritrea reverse a worrisome military build-up on their tense border, a senior United Nations official said on Thursday.
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/ 1 December 2005
The Gabon Constitutional Court on Thursday declared the re-election of Omar Bongo Ondimba as President of the republic with 79,18% of the votes cast in last weekend’s election. Bongo (69) who has been in power since 1967, is Africa’s longest-ruling leader.
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United Nations human rights chief Louise Arbour warned on Thursday that Nepal faced the threat of a full-scale armed conflict, and called on authorities to join a ceasefire with Maoist rebels and allow free assembly. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights joined calls for Maoist rebels to extend a unilateral ceasefire which is due to end this week.
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/ 1 December 2005
On May 25 this year, Zimbabwe’s government began a massive campaign of forced evictions and demolitions. Six months later, says a damning Human Rights Watch report released on Thursday, the government has made no arrangements to provide even temporary shelter to the internally displaced. Thousands of people are now living in the open.