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/ 27 November 2005
The remains of three Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres executed in the apartheid era have been located at Mamelodi cemetery in Pretoria and exhumed, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday. Sipho Xulu, Andrew Zondo and Lucky Payi were hanged in 1986.
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/ 27 November 2005
Senegalese police detained Chadian former dictator Hissene Habre in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday — a day after he was released because a court was unable to rule on a Belgian extradition request. Habre’s lawyer, Doudou Ndoye, accused the government of violating the former president’s human rights.
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/ 27 November 2005
Embattled Zimbabweans showed little enthusiasm on Saturday for a new Senate, forming longer lines in some areas to buy scarce food supplies than to vote for a body criticised as a costly ploy to strengthen President Robert Mugabe’s grip on power. The election has divided the main opposition party.
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/ 27 November 2005
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has visited Harbin in the country’s north-east and ordered local leaders to restore running water to 3,8-million people who spent a fourth day without supplies after a benzene spill in a nearby river. Beijing has also apologised to Moscow for the toxic chemicals flowing toward Russia.
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/ 27 November 2005
France scored two tries in the first 10 minutes and held out South Africa 26-20 in a rugby international at Stade de France on Saturday. Early tries by Dimitri Szarzewski and Frederic Michalak helped France lead 15-0 at half-time, though captain Jerome Thion left shortly afterward from an elbow in the face by South African counterpart John Smit.
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/ 27 November 2005
Eager children scramble for them in Zimbabwe. Camels carry them through remotest Kenya. They are impossible to buy from a legitimate seller in Sierra Leone. They have solved problems, launched businesses and careers, created dreams, fired imaginations, changed lives and saved lives. They are taken for granted in Britain, but 113-million children worldwide do not have access to them.
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/ 26 November 2005
The Toronto zoo has recovered a red panda that had escaped its pen and evaded capture for more than a month by blending in with Canada’s colourful red maple leaves, officials said on Friday. The nine-year-old animal was found by a gardener this week sitting in a tree about 2km away, healthy, but a bit thinner.
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/ 26 November 2005
Stung by the rejection of a new Constitution he backed, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has moved to restore flagging confidence in his leadership with a pair of tough political moves, analysts said on Friday. Kibaki sacked his entire Cabinet and then suspended next week’s planned reopening of Parliament.
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/ 26 November 2005
A Japanese spacecraft successfully landed on a far-away asteroid on Saturday for a second time and almost certainly collected the first-ever samples from such a celestial body, Japan’s space agency said. The Hayabusa probe is on a landmark mission to bring back material from the Itokawa asteroid.
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/ 26 November 2005
About 100 people were feared dead after two packed passenger buses skidded off bridges in southern India amid heavy rains, police and officials said on Saturday. The bridges had been swamped by water due to lashing rains, the worst in years, that have turned some parts of the state into lakes.