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China’s agriculture minister has warned of a possible ”massive bird-flu outbreak” as the country announced two new human cases of the H5N1 flu strain, raising to 14 the number of reports of human infections since October. The latest human cases are a nine-year-old girl and a 26-year-old woman.
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/ 26 February 2006
Hopes faded on Sunday for survivors trapped inside a six-storey building a day after it collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, killing at least 16 people, an official said. Rescuers with search lights and crowbars sifted overnight through the rubble of the building, but no bodies or survivors were found.
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Political parties should not create unrealistic expectations, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said on Saturday. ”The DA [Democratic Alliance], for example, the last time it created the impression that it was going to win the election, but it lost to the ANC,” he said at the end of his party’s election campaign in Kempton Park.
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The next few days ahead of the March 1 local government elections are very crucial, African Christian Democratic Party leader Reverend Kenneth Meshoe said on Saturday. ”The work is not done … There are those who have not decided who they will vote for,” Meshoe told party councillors at the election campaign in Dobsonville.
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President Thabo Mbeki took the African National Congress’s local government campaign into the Transkei heartland of the United Democratic Movement on Saturday. In a series of stops, he made his way from the Wild Coast through the heart of the Mqanduli area where UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was born.
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The election race between the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance for the Cape Town metropole is too close to call, DA leader Tony Leon told supporters on Saturday. He was speaking at the DA’s final election rally in Goodwood in Cape Town’s northern suburbs.
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/ 26 February 2006
Twenty-four people died in a head-on collision between a midi-bus and truck on the N2 highway to Grahamstown on Saturday, Arrive Alive said. It is believed the midi-bus was travelling south from Paterson to Port Elizabeth when it collided with a Clover dairy truck at 9am, spokesperson Tshepo Machaea said.
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma received a hero’s welcome while campaigning for the upcoming local government election on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg on Saturday. He told community members to vote for the ANC, saying it is the only party that can give them a better life.
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/ 26 February 2006
<i>Yume no chikara</i> is Japanese for having the ability to make your dreams come true, or as Honda puts it: the power of dreams. This is the strategy behind a company whose vehicles are winning numerous awards around the world — the most recent going to the newly launched Honda Civic, which was voted the best car at the international Detroit Motor Show last month.
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/ 26 February 2006
United States actor Don Knotts, famous for his portrayal of the bumbling, jittery deputy on the television comedy series <i>The Andy Griffith Show</i>, has died at the age of 81, news reports said on Saturday. Knotts is also known for his role on another television comedy series in the 1970s and 1980s, <i>Three’s Company</i>.