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Judges put Saddam Hussein’s appeal process into motion on Monday as Baghdad lifted a round-the-clock curfew imposed to prevent attacks in the aftermath of the ousted president’s death sentence. Saddam was sentenced to hang by the Iraqi high tribunal, which found him guilty on Sunday of crimes against humanity.
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/ 6 November 2006
The case against a man accused of raping 70 women between 1994 and 2004 could not proceed in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday afternoon as expected. Presiding Judge George Maluleke postponed the matter to Tuesday, saying he needed two assessors to be present during court proceedings.
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/ 6 November 2006
Microsoft said on Monday it has completed the software code for its Office 2007 suite and will begin to offer the world’s most popular package of desktop software to corporate customers on November 30. The new Windows Vista operating system and 2007 Exchange e-mail server will also then be made available to business customers.
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/ 6 November 2006
Arabic-speaking armed robbers in eastern Cameroon killed a woman and stole money, jewellery and cellphones from dozens of motorists after holding up 30 vehicles on a main road, witnesses said on Monday. The assailants were hooded and dressed in military fatigues.
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/ 6 November 2006
The Zimbabwean government is to rewrite a controversial Bill that would allow the state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes and e-mails, officials said on Monday. The Interception of Communications Bill has come under a barrage of criticism since it was published in May.
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/ 6 November 2006
A survey has revealed that 14 television and radio programmes and four print media campaigns to raise Aids awareness have had a ”very profound” effect on people’s attitude and behaviour. The survey questioned more than 8 000 people across South Africa between the ages of 15 and 65.
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/ 6 November 2006
The diamond industry’s watchdog launched a meeting on Monday amid calls to crack down on smuggling of ”conflict diamonds” from Côte d’Ivoire. The problem of illicit gems financing civil wars is expected to get widespread publicity next month upon the release of the new Hollywood movie Blood Diamond.
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/ 6 November 2006
New rules forced air travellers to pack perfume, toothpaste and other liquids into small plastic bags in their hand luggage before going through security checkpoints at Europe’s airports on Monday. Queues were longer than usual at terminals in Frankfurt and Paris as passengers got to grips with the new regulations.
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/ 6 November 2006
Former Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit (81), who died late on Sunday after five-and-a-half months in a coma, was a staunch nationalist and a symbol of probity in the country’s corruption-plagued politics. Once a leader of the Turkish left, he was also in his younger years a well-known poet and a translator of TS Eliot and Rabindranath Tagore.
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/ 6 November 2006
Leonid Hambro, a concert pianist who served as Victor Borge’s comedic sidekick during a decade-long collaboration and was also known for his ability to commit to memory a huge repertoire, has died. He was 86. Hambro died at his Manhattan home on October 23 of complications from a fall, his wife, Barbara Hambro, said.