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/ 30 October 2006
After making the announcement a week ago, Gold Fields, the world’s third largest gold producer, has officially listed on the Dubai International Financial Exchange. "The DIFX is the gateway to a significant pool of liquidity in the Gulf, Middle East and Central Asian region," said chief executive Ian Cockerill in a statement.
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/ 30 October 2006
Lawyers for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein returned to court on Monday to present a list of conditions for ending their boycott of his genocide trial but left after they were rebuffed. Chief defence counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi and another member of the defence team filed into the Iraqi High Tribunal for the hearing, but instead of listening to evidence made a string of complaints.
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/ 30 October 2006
The crisis over the Cape Town mayoral system is coming to a head, with mayor Helen Zille set to meet Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi on Friday. Recently Zille accused the ANC of attempting to make the city ungovernable, while the ANC and Independent Democrats stormed out of a full council meeting.
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/ 30 October 2006
Hopes for a winter lull in fighting in southern Afghanistan were halted by a weekend firefight in Uruzgan province in which Nato said it killed 70 suspected militants. The battle erupted on Saturday afternoon in the remote Chora valley when up to 150 Taliban fighters attacked a joint Afghan-Nato patrol.
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/ 30 October 2006
From his rooftop, Mohammad Ibrahim can see from one end to the other of the narrow valley that contains the village of Wadi Fukin. Beyond houses bunched around the tall minaret of the mosque is terraced farmland, most of it covered with olive trees or planted deep in cabbage, cucumber, radish, lettuce and squash, irrigated by dozens of small reservoir pools linked to the valley’s 11 ancient springs.
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/ 30 October 2006
A bomb targeting poor Iraqi Shi’ites lining up for day jobs in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City killed at least 31 people and injured more than 50 others, police said. The bomb tore through a collection of food stalls and kiosks at about 6.15am (3.15am GMT), cutting down men who gather there daily hoping to be hired as labourers.
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/ 30 October 2006
When does a man not deserve to be treated as a woman? This question will weigh heavily on Italian politics on Monday morning as the speaker of the lower house of the Rome Parliament prepares to rule on the sanitary arrangements for its most singular member.
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/ 30 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki’s International Investment Council (IIC) endorsed the medium-term budget policy delivered by the Department of Finance in Parliament this week, the Presidency said on Sunday. It said the government’s goals for a higher gross domestic product and employment growth rates by 2014 were a step forward for South Africa
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/ 30 October 2006
The United Nations’ special envoy for HIV and Aids in Africa accused the world’s wealthiest countries on Sunday of failing to deliver on promises to increase aid to the most impoverished continent. ”Where is the G8 money ? Where is the promise?… The world is running out of patience. Why has the G8 defaulted?” Stephen Lewis told reporters in Malawi.
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/ 30 October 2006
North Korea launched five short-range missiles during military exercises last week, a news report said on Monday. The missiles presumably had ranges between 10 and 50km, said Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest circulation newspaper, quoting an unnamed official.