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/ 16 October 2006
Niger is keen to import Indian rice milling machines — and get advice on how to drill for oil. South Africa welcomes Indian investment to build hotels ahead of the 2010 World Cup. And Ethiopia wants help from India for its highway projects. African countries are increasingly looking to India, as well as China, for help developing their economies — moves that could shape the future of global trade flows.
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/ 16 October 2006
South Korea is planning to send kimchi into space in a giant leap for its much-loved national dish, Yonhap news agency reported Monday. A state-run food research body is pushing ahead with a plan to develop traditional foods like kimchi, the chili paste "gochujang" and ginseng so that they can be eaten in space, Yonhap said.
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/ 16 October 2006
All that was in tune for Moroka Swallows during their late 2-1 Premier League defeat against Jomo Cosmos at Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon was the club’s brass band. While the Birds only seemed to play with urgency and purpose while trailing, the young ensemble in the stand kept up an incessant musical rapport throughout the 90 minutes — but to no avail.
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/ 16 October 2006
It is 9.15am and Wilson Mhlongo is being prepared for an operation to replace the ball and joint of his right hip, which are eroded by arthritis. He winces, his eyes screwed up in pain, as Dr Kobus Viljoen tries to find a space between his vertebrae to insert the huge needle of the spinal anaesthetic injection. Dr Victor Fredlund, assisted by Viljoen, will perform the two-hour operation. As the hospital has no anaesthetist, Mhlongo will be awake throughout the procedure.
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/ 16 October 2006
Police in Israel said on Sunday night that the country’s president should be charged with raping and sexually assaulting several women who worked for him. In the most serious allegations faced by an Israeli head of state, Moshe Katsav was also suspected of bugging his staff’s telephones and of fraud, police said
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/ 16 October 2006
The Highveld Lions beat the Warriors by nine wickets with more than 10 overs to spare in their Domestic Championship match at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom on Sunday. The Lions innings was interrupted by a heavy downpour just five runs short of victory, but they returned an hour later for Stephen Cook to score the winning runs.
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/ 16 October 2006
The police don’t have the facts on attacks on the Somali community and should get these, said Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Sunday. Leon said representatives of the Somali community claimed that 40 Somalis had been killed in the past three months alone.
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/ 16 October 2006
Twenty-two charges of rape were laid against police officers between April 2005 and March this year, media reports said on Monday. This, according to an Independent Complaints Directorate report, was the highest such figure in the past six years.
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/ 16 October 2006
The unremitting wave of sectarian violence that has greeted the Muslim holy month of Ramadan claimed scores more Iraqi lives at the weekend, as authorities in Baghdad announced the indefinite postponement of a conference of political leaders seen as crucial to quickly diminishing hopes for national reconciliation.
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/ 16 October 2006
A powerful earthquake and repeated aftershocks shook Hawaii on Sunday, rattling nerves, knocking out power in Honolulu and prompting Governor Linda Lingle to issue a disaster declaration for the entire state. The earthquake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami warning, according to Victor Sardina, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.