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/ 10 November 2006
Women crime writers should give thanks that Agatha Christie disappeared. Frances Fyfield reports.
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/ 10 November 2006
Stephen King is not just a horror specialist. If his new book, Lisey’s Story, is anything to go by. Brigitte Dusseau in London reports .
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/ 10 November 2006
Oil prices fell on Friday after jumping above a barrel the previous day in reaction the leadership change in the United States Congress and amid reports of an increase in fourth-quarter global energy demand. The International Energy Agency forecast a 2,6% jump in fourth-quarter global energy demand.
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/ 10 November 2006
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday welcomed an initiative by churches to help end the country’s political and economic crisis, but charged President Robert Mugabe is in denial and an obstacle to change. Mugabe has rejected recent calls made by leaders of Zimbabwe’s major churches for a new Constitution.
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/ 10 November 2006
Africa’s recognition that the Chinese economy is one of the biggest in the world does not mean the continent’s countries should define themselves as recipients of charity, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday, writing in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website
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Zimbabwe’s annual inflation galloped to 1 070,2% in October after a rare slowdown in September, the government’s Central Statistical Office said on Friday. Inflation dipped in September to 1 023,3% from a record high of 1 204,6% in August.
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/ 10 November 2006
Tens of thousands of Palestinians wept and screamed for revenge on Thursday as they buried 18 civilians killed in Gaza by Israeli shelling that Israel’s prime minister blamed on a technical failure. ”Killers in Israel, you will never be able to defeat one Palestinian child,” said Abdul Hakim Awad, an official of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.
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/ 10 November 2006
Veteran CBS newsman Ed Bradley, a pioneering black American journalist who won acclaim as a Vietnam War correspondent and later as a reporter for ”60 Minutes,” died on Thursday of complications from leukemia. He was 65. Bradley, whose illness was not widely known, had just begun his 26th year as one of the team of reporters featured on the landmark CBS News magazine show.
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The volatility of South Africa’s rand could be negative for long-term growth, but for now the currency’s recent fluctuation should not upset financial stability, the country’s Reserve Bank said on Friday. The bank also repeated its concern about high levels of household debt, possibly signalling more interest rate hikes are immiment.
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An IMF delegation is visiting Zimbabwe to help improve relations with President Robert Mugabe’s government, but officials say the fund has not offered any aid to the country’s crumbling economy. The Southern African country is now in its eighth year of recession, marked by the world’s highest inflation and chronic shortages of fuel, food and foreign currency.