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/ 6 November 2006
A controversial North West company with provincial government housing contracts worth almost R250-million has been implicated in tender irregularities described as "unheard of" by the provincial legislature. One of these contracts, worth R80-million, is for the building of 2Â 000 houses in Taung following floods in March this year.
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/ 6 November 2006
A senior former White House official on Monday predicted that the Republicans would suffer heavy losses in the midterm elections, despite polls showing a cut in the Democratic party’s lead. Former United States deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage predicted that the Democrats would retake the House of Representatives.
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/ 6 November 2006
Brazil, home to the world’s largest rainforest, will ask rich nations to back a plan to help it slow deforestation at global climate talks this week, a senior environmental official said. The plan marks a first step toward including deforestation in global climate agreements to cut emissions of carbon.
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/ 6 November 2006
Output of 55 000 barrels per day of oil was cut in Nigeria when armed protesters on Monday forced the closure of a flow station belonging to Italy’s Agip company in the Niger Delta, an Agip official said. ”There were 48 persons — all local staff — on the flow station when it was invaded by the protesters,” said the official.
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/ 6 November 2006
A Finnish mathematician on Monday claimed he had created the world’s hardest sudoku puzzle, a brain-teaser that required three months’ work and a billion combinations to produce. ”AI Escargot is the most difficult sudoku puzzle known so far,” the puzzle’s 37-year-old creator and applied mathematician Arto Inkala said.
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/ 6 November 2006
The Ugandan army said on Monday it had killed 12 people in weekend bombing raids against tribal warriors accused of shooting at a military helicopter over the country’s restive north-east Karamoja region. But sources in the area said the death toll was much higher and spoke of residents reporting as many as 500 people killed.
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/ 6 November 2006
Male models being used as ball boys at this week’s end-of-season WTA Championships need to keep their minds on the job and not be distracted by the female players, world number eight Elena Dementieva said on Monday. ”I don’t think they really know what they have to do on the court,” the Russian tennis star told reporters.
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/ 6 November 2006
The Department of Health is still key in the deliberations and implementation of all programmes related to HIV/Aids, the Presidency said in a statement on Monday. ”Government wishes to clearly state that the work of the Ministry and the Department of Health has not been altered or taken over,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 6 November 2006
Meet Rose … this old bird sure does love her toys! Rose will put that thing just about anywhere you ask her to, and she’ll love it. She gets hornier and hornier with age and is at her sexual peak. Two middle managers of the Johannesburg city council have already met Rose on the internet, it was revealed on Monday.