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/ 26 October 2006
Chilean investigators were examining reports on Wednesday that 9 tonnes of gold had been found in a Hong Kong bank under the name of Augusto Pinochet. The gold, valued at -million, was found during an ongoing investigation into tax evasion and money laundering by the former dictator.
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/ 26 October 2006
A bus was burned and two were hijacked during a violent protest by taxi drivers in Cape Town on Thursday morning, the Golden Arrow bus company said. One of the hijacked buses was used to block off the N2 highway. Bus passengers and drivers were injured by shattered glass due to numerous stonings, the company said.
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/ 26 October 2006
Confident South Africa clash with mercurial Pakistan in an explosive Champions Trophy match on Friday that will take the winner into the semifinals and send the loser home. New Zealand’s win over Pakistan on Wednesday night gave Stephen Fleming’s Black Caps one of the two semifinal berths from Group B, leaving South Africa and Pakistan to scrap for the other spot.
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/ 26 October 2006
China’s trade with Africa is set to top -billion this year, officials said on Thursday, as Beijing gears up to host a China-Africa forum that will deepen much-scrutinised investment ties. China has defended its growing trade ties and its more than -billion worth of investments on the continent, whose energy and mineral wealth it covets to fuel its booming economy.
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/ 26 October 2006
Ernie Els has never missed the season-ending US Tour Championship when playing a full schedule with a healthy body, so he jotted that down as part of his global schedule when laying out his plans for the year. But not everything has gone according to plan.
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/ 26 October 2006
The Wallabies are set for some revolutionary positional changes on next month’s four-Test European tour as they look ahead to next year’s Rugby World Cup in France. Coach John Connolly is tinkering with a revamp of the backline to maximise Australia’s chances of challenging World Cup favourites New Zealand and France.
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/ 26 October 2006
United States President George Bush on Wednesday tried to rekindle his country’s faith in his strategy for Iraq, admitting he was dissatisfied with the worsening violence, but insisting the US would make the tactical changes that would lead to victory.
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/ 26 October 2006
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence European Union protests about the human rights record of one of the United States’s key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal. According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of its citizens, an al-Qaeda suspect being held in a Moroccan cell.
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/ 26 October 2006
The cost of bunking work in corporate South Africa is estimated at a minimum of R19,1-billion, with Mondays and Fridays the worst days for absenteeism, a fresh survey showed on Thursday. "Absenteeism is the single biggest cause of lost time and poor productivity that this country faces," says labour specialist Andrew Levy, who analysed the survey.
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/ 26 October 2006
The South African Cabinet has given its approval to the proposal to create six regional electricity distributors (REDs) which will be established as public entities under the auspices of the Electricity Distribution Industry. This was confirmed on Thursday — after the Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday.