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On the sidelines of a key United Nations climate-change conference in Nairobi, Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai on Wednesday launched a massive drive aimed at curbing global warming and related environmental damage by planting a billion new trees by the end of next year.
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/ 8 November 2006
East Africa is now one of the world’s major drug-supply routes, with tonnes of cocaine and heroin suspected of being smuggled into Europe, a senior British official said on Wednesday. Traffickers are preying on corrupt officials and weak border controls in the region to ships drugs to lucrative European markets, he said.
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/ 8 November 2006
Individual Rugby World Cup tickets will be put up for sale on the internet on Thursday, with 10 months to go before the competition gets under way. A total of 550 000 tickets will be available to the general public from 8am GMT on websites including Rugbyworldcup.com and from other ticket outlets.
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/ 8 November 2006
Religious groups opposed to the term ”marriage” in the Civil Unions Bill, including the African Christian Democratic Party, are set to lose their battle after the National Assembly’s home affairs committee adopted the African National Congress’s amended version of the Bill on Wednesday.
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/ 8 November 2006
Côte d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny, on Wednesday announced the resumption of preparations for long-postponed elections in the divided country under his new United Nations mandate. ”I’m relaunching operations to distribute … birth certificates and nationality certificates,” Banny said.
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/ 8 November 2006
A defence lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial demanded on Wednesday that the court investigate the alleged ransacking of the defence team’s office in the United States-controlled Green Zone. The demand was made by counsel Badee Izzat Aref as the trial resumed with Saddam and the six co-defendants present.
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/ 8 November 2006
Every raped woman is still confronted by the problem of testifying in an open court, Johannesburg High Court Judge George Maluleke said on Wednesday, following an application by the state to have the evidence of dozens of women allegedly raped by Mongezi Samuel Jinxela heard in camera.
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/ 8 November 2006
Mittal Steel South Africa on Wednesday said it knows nothing of planned protests by its workers’ union over high steel prices. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on Tuesday said it will ”mobilise a series of work stoppages, demonstrations, including general strikes in protest against steel-price increases”.
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/ 8 November 2006
A suicide bomber killed at least 42 soldiers at an army base in north-west Pakistan on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a revenge attack for a missile strike against an al-Qaeda training camp, officials said. Witnesses said the huge explosion left body parts and shredded clothing scattered across a parade ground.
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/ 8 November 2006
At least 65 civilians were killed and about 300 injured on Wednesday when government forces shelled a refugee camp in eastern Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels and medical sources said. A spokesperson for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said the final toll could rise to 100.