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The Eritrean government has rejected a proposal by the United Nations Security Council to hold talks with an independent commission to resolve its ongoing border dispute with Ethiopia. ”The final and binding decision of the boundary commission marks the legal conclusion of the Eritrea-Ethiopia issue once and for all,” said the Eritrean foreign ministry on Monday.
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As many as 1 300 people could have died in the wave of sectarian violence that swept Iraq following the bombing of a gold-domed shrine in Samarra, it was reported on Tuesday. Most of the dead had been shot, knifed or garroted, often with their hands tied execution-style behind their backs.
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The damage to the Koeberg nuclear plant was done deliberately and was not an accident, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said on Tuesday. One of the two generators at Koeberg was damaged in December in what Erwin now described as sabotage, causing severe outages in the Western Cape over the past month.
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Bombers killed more than 30 people, including two British soldiers, in Iraq on Tuesday as tanks guarded Sunni mosques amid fears of a new outbreak of sectarian violence. Three bombs went off in quick succession in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad, killing at least 33 people and wounding more than 100.
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The Pretoria High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union to allow 60Â 000 officers special votes or ballots at voting stations where they are not registered. Judge NM Mavundla said allowing police to leave their posts to vote could lead to chaos.
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India is aiming for annual economic growth of 10% in the next few years, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday while delivering a ”common man’s Budget” that focused on rural areas, social security and infrastructure. ”I believe that growth is the best antidote to poverty,” Chidambaram said while presenting the government’s 2006-2007 Budget to Parliament.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan hailed France’s idea to tax airline tickets to fund development aid on Tuesday, in an address at the opening of an international conference in Paris. He urged other countries to follow suit, noting that Chile was also implementing the tax.
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The leader of the al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, Fahd bin Faraj al-Joweir, was among five militants killed in a shootout in Riyadh on Monday, the Saudi interior ministry announced. "Joweir (36) … had taken charge of the criminal cells," after other leading members were eliminated by security forces, the ministry said.
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”This organisation [the African National Congress] led us out of oppression, and this organisation will lead us out of poverty,” President Thabo Mbeki told Soweto residents during an election campaign on Tuesday. Mbeki urged hundreds of Soweto residents at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West to vote for the ANC.
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A court sentenced 21 Islamic militants to death on Tuesday for their part in a deadly wave of blasts that saw more than 400 bombs explode almost simultaneously across Bangladesh last year. The bombings killed three people and rocked a nation which had previously denied having a serious problem with extremism.