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/ 22 February 2006
A total of 1,8-million, or 39%, of workers in South Africa’s six biggest cities travel to work in a motor car, according to Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe. He has warned that a system of reducing single-occupant car use is on the cards and said a travel-demand management strategy is "still being developed".
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/ 22 February 2006
A seven-year-old girl wed a stray dog as part of a ritual to ward off the ”evil eye” on her and her family in eastern India, a news agency reported on Wednesday. Shivam Munda’s upper teeth appeared before her lower teeth — considered a bad omen by members of the Santhal ethnic group to which she belongs.
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/ 22 February 2006
Prison authorities in California were on Tuesday forced to reschedule the execution of convicted murderer Michael Morales after it was delayed by a disagreement with medical personnel. The execution was called off at 2am on Tuesday, two hours after it was due to begin at San Quentin prison near San Francisco.
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/ 22 February 2006
A cholera outbreak has killed at least 45 people and infected about 1 860 others in the past two weeks in the southern Sudan capital, an international medical charity said on Wednesday. Médecins sans Frontières said ”a large outbreak can be expected” in Juba, a town with more than 250 000 people.
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/ 22 February 2006
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, stepped down from his post at America’s top educational institution on Tuesday after a five-year reign punctuated by battles with a rebellious academic staff and public relations gaffes. His resignation is effective on July 1.
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/ 22 February 2006
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The African National Congress is slipping through the gaps left by the fighting between the Freedom Front Plus and the Democratic Alliance, FF+ leader Pieter Mulder said on Wednesday. ”With the DA playing confusing politics and threatening voters to vote for them, we have to defend ourselves,” he said.
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/ 22 February 2006
Exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide defended on Wednesday his decision to return home in the face of US reluctance, saying it was his right as a citizen of the Caribbean nation. ”I have the right to be back,” Aristide said in an interview with international news agencies in Pretoria.
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/ 22 February 2006
Women’s right to abortion is not under threat by Doctors for Life’s action in the Constitutional Court, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. The main sections of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act are not in dispute, said departmental spokesperson Sibani Mngadi.
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/ 22 February 2006
A rare and prized fossil of the feathered Archaeopteryx — thought to be Earth’s first bird — has become something of an albatross to a small Wyoming museum. While the scientific significance of the fossil is unquestioned and its monetary value thought to be in excess of -million, the fact that it is bound for a private museum has drawn scorn from some scientists.
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/ 22 February 2006
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Jobs, housing and municipal services are what most residents in the Dihlabeng local municipality want from their new municipal leaders one week before the March 1 local government elections. Topsie Masweu (60) of Bohlokong, who works as a domestic worker in Bethlehem, said on Wednesday that jobs were the most urgent need in the town.