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/ 20 October 2006
Oil prices fell below a barrel on Friday, even though Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) made a deeper output cut than expected, on concerns that some of the group’s members may fail to comply with the curbs. ”There’s still a degree of scepticism over whether they will deliver all the cuts,” said a commodity strategist.
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/ 20 October 2006
The European Commission unveiled on Friday a new strategy to encourage peace and stability in the Horn of Africa, as two European Union diplomats were expelled from Ethiopia, inside the conflict-prone region. The strategy is more of a diagnosis of the region’s problems than a cure.
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/ 20 October 2006
He kicked off his sneakers, stepped on the scale in his white socks and smiled. Seconds later, the man once labeled the baddest man on the planet, the one who could petrify an opponent simply by stepping on to the apron, flexed his biceps for a few photographers and then giggled almost in shame.
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/ 20 October 2006
With a lack of senior players, four new caps and the World Cup only a few months away, Springbok coach Jake White has his sights firmly fixed on beating England in their forthcoming two matches on the Springboks’ end-of-year tour. The Springboks leave South Africa in two weeks’ time for two consecutive matches against England.
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/ 20 October 2006
Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager famed for his foreign-recruitment policy, claims the club will be regularly producing their own homegrown talent within the next five years. Wenger has built his Arsenal dynasty around players signed from the continent, with many treading the familiar path to north London from his French homeland.
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/ 20 October 2006
A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor, and witnesses saw an arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday. Burkhard Rick, a spokesperson for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said the fire gutted the cottage.
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/ 20 October 2006
Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance mayor of Cape Town, was accused by the African National Congress and Independent Democrats of doing a lousy job at delivering local services as about 100 politicians and members of the public protested opposite the city’s Manenberg police station on Friday morning.
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/ 20 October 2006
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party will table a motion in Parliament demanding the sacking of Zimbabwe’s top union leaders, in what insiders say is the first step by the ruling party to annexing the powerful but pro-opposition labour movement.
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/ 20 October 2006
South Africa needs to take more assertive action on the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. This is especially necessary in the light of its election to a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, he said in his weekly newsletter.
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/ 20 October 2006
Facing a huge surge in the number of Somali refugees fleeing unrest, Kenya on Friday renewed appeals for dialogue between Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement and weak government to prevent conflict. More than 30 000 Somalis have arrived in Kenya since the beginning of the year.