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/ 5 November 2006
National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi believes a smear campaign is being waged against him to remove him from his post. ”I don’t do crime; I am not corrupt,” Selebi reacted to newspaper reports implicating him, his Deputy Commissioner Andre Pruis and other senior police officers in criminal activity.
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/ 5 November 2006
Iraq war protagonists the United States and Britain led the applause on Sunday after justice was meted out to Saddam Hussein, but other nations and groups were wary that he now faces the hangman’s noose. The White House welcomed the guilty verdict as proof of the viability of Iraq’s fledgling government.
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/ 5 November 2006
Saddam Hussein’s death sentence on Sunday drew an outpouring of vengeful glee among the ousted Iraqi despot’s former foes in the Middle East and muted discontent from Sunni radicals. Iraq’s Shi’ites, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, rejoiced when the deposed president was sentenced to death by hanging.
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/ 5 November 2006
Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity in ordering the deaths of 148 Shi’ite villagers following an assassination attempt on his life in 1982 by gunmen from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite Dawa party in the town of Dujail.
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/ 5 November 2006
Japanese researchers said on Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, providing further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land. Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan.
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/ 5 November 2006
Mummified human skeletal remains confiscated from the home of a woman who police say was trying to sell them on eBay likely came from a Scottish collection, authorities said. Police said on Friday they have closed their investigation into the remains and do not plan to request criminal charges.
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/ 5 November 2006
A mortar attack on a Sunni district of Baghdad killed six people and gunmen kidnapped a legal expert, a security official said on Sunday, as Iraq braced itself for Saddam Hussein’s judgement day. Iraq’s beleaguered military was on a war footing and a total curfew came into force in three flashpoint provinces.
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/ 5 November 2006
Kenyan Muslims on Saturday accused the United States of lying about plans by Somali Islamists to carry out suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia. The Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims said Washington is using the alleged threats as a ploy to attack and destroy Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement.
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/ 5 November 2006
Political inequality in South Africa may be a thing of the past, but the racial and gender divide appears very much intact when it comes to the boardroom, a new book shows. ”It is a hell of a slow pace … Not much of an improvement,” says Renee Bonorchis, co-author of Executive Pay in South Africa — Who Gets What and Why.
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/ 5 November 2006
Self-proclaimed Premier Soccer League ”Cup Kings” Supersport United were shown the exit from the Telkom Knockout by an enterprising Black Leopards at Thohoyandou on Saturday afternoon as their hopes of securing the new competition’s record winners’ prize of R4,25-million bit the dust.