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/ 12 October 2006
Just two steps into the tall grass and jungle at Ri-Kwangba, a remote border outpost, and the dreadlocked gunmen clad in worn camouflage merge into the leafy forest — invisible, protected and feared. For nearly 20 years, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have relied on standard guerrilla techniques to wreak havoc and destruction across war-torn northern Uganda, staging quick and lethal raids before disappearing into the bush.
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/ 12 October 2006
<i>At Her Feet</i> is a brilliant, precocious theatrical achievement — that doesn’t know when to stop, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 12 October 2006
The killer was waiting on the ground floor. Anna Polit-kovskaya, a tall, elegant figure with steel-grey hair and black clothes, descended in the lift to collect the shopping bags she had left in her Lada outside on the street. It was 4.10pm on Saturday. As the doors opened, a young man in a baseball cap stepped forward and fired two shots into her heart. The third hit her shoulder; the fourth her head.
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/ 12 October 2006
South Africa on Thursday defended President Thabo Mbeki’s maligned mediation efforts in the world’s top cocoa producer, Côte d’Ivoire, which has been split in half since a September 2002 rebellion. ”South Africa did not go and start mediating in the Côte d’Ivoire issue because we had nothing to do,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad told reporters in Cape Town.
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/ 12 October 2006
Leaders in the West African regional bloc Ecowas (Economic Community of West African States) have decided to end the mediation role of South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki in Côte d’Ivoire, seen to be aligned to President Laurent Gbagbo, sources said on Thursday. The leaders in Ecowas ”decided to set aside the South African mediation” said Ivorian New Forces rebel leader Guillaume Soro.
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/ 11 October 2006
US authorities scrambled fighter jets above US cities on Wednesday as a precaution after a small plane crashed into an apartment building in New York, a senior commander said. Admiral Tim Keating, commander of the US Northern Command, would not say how many cities were under air cover but insisted there was no sign of terrorism in the accident on Manhattan’s post Upper East Side.
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/ 11 October 2006
A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise building in New York City on Wednesday, killing at least two people and prompting US authorities to scramble fighter jets as a precaution. Officials emphasised the crash was not an act of terrorism but an accident. The accident claimed the life of American baseball player Cory Lidle, who was thought to be piloting the plane.
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/ 11 October 2006
Madagascar police have released six detained opposition members, including a senator, but political tensions flared as their party’s exiled leader vowed to return despite arrest threats. Government officials renewed pledges to detain Arema party chief Pierrot Rajaonarivelo if he sets foot on the Indian Ocean island, saying they had proof of financial crimes