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Irish football bids farewell to Lansdowne Road, its rickety home stadium of 35 years on Wednesday in what could hardly be less auspicious circumstances. A team in gradual decline since the Charlton era of the 1980s takes on San Marino, the smallest country participating in the Euro 2008 qualifiers — and officially the worst team in the competition.
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/ 14 November 2006
Lewellyn Delport, chief executive of Trans Hex, says he sees diamond prices moving either sideways or up depending on the demand over Christmas and the perception of the industry created by a Hollywood movie in coming months. "We are mindful of the issues like the <i>Blood Diamond</i> film’s effect on Christmas sales," said Delport.
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/ 14 November 2006
Benin is hoping that a five-year, multimillion-dollar grant from the United States under the auspices of the Millennium Challenge Account will finance development projects to reduce poverty, notably through resolving land ownership and credit problems. The government says these funds will allow it to meet enormous economic challenges.
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/ 14 November 2006
Brazil’s Minister of Health, Agenor Ãlvares, has admitted that the public health system is imbued with racism, stirring up more controversy over policies for specific treatment plans targeting Brazilians of African descent. There are clear signs of discriminatory practices, the minister said two weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro.
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/ 14 November 2006
Antibodies that are active against HIV proteins may provide a successful strategy against infection, investigators report. In test tube experiments, an antibody that attacks the outer HIV envelope glycoprotein 41, which was labeled with a radioactive isotope so its movement could be detected, killed white blood cells infected with HIV.
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/ 14 November 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan intends to propose a ”hybrid” African Union-UN force for Darfur in talks with Sudanese officials and has invited major powers to take part. Sudan has been adamantly opposed to a UN force so the UN is considering alternatives to get a larger and better-funded peacekeeping operation acceptable to Khartoum.
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/ 14 November 2006
It’s tough being a cop in Virginia. You may be 10-7 (off duty) when you see a 10-54 (livestock on a highway) cause a 10-50 (traffic accident). There’s nothing to do other than call in a 10-32 (alarm) and a 10-13 (request a wrecker). 10-4? Message received? Probably not.
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/ 14 November 2006
Maanda Manyatshe, chief executive officer of cellphone company MTN, resigned on Monday to clear his name after being accused of pushing through a deal worth R100-million without a tender process while he was CEO of the South African Post Office.
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/ 14 November 2006
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped over the past decade by soldiers, rebels and ethnic militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The scale of the assaults has become increasingly evident over recent months as growing numbers of women have emerged for treatment with the reduction in fighting ahead of presidential elections.
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/ 14 November 2006
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, a report says on Tuesday. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.