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/ 22 February 2007
The United States on Wednesday condemned police crackdowns on peaceful protest in Zimbabwe and urged President Robert Mugabe’s government to let people exercise their political rights. Protests broke out over the weekend after Mugabe declared his plan to postpone elections scheduled for next year and continue his presidency.
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/ 22 February 2007
At first they are ghost figures in the weapons’ system monitor, glowing with body warmth and two-dimensional. From inside the American Bradley fighting vehicle approaching Burhiz, an insurgent neighbourhood of Baquba, you quickly acclimatise to the reality of this representation of human life.
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/ 22 February 2007
Crime prevention should not be the sole responsibility of the police but of the country as a whole, Institute of Security Studies researcher Johan Burger said at his book launch on Wednesday. Titled Strategic Perspective on Crime and Policing in South Africa, the book outlines strategies which can be used to combat crime and makes recommendations for crime prevention.
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/ 22 February 2007
The United States recording industry has started a new crackdown on illegal music downloading on university campuses throughout America. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents 90% of music companies, has drawn up a list of the universities with the worst student offenders.
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/ 22 February 2007
Romano Prodi resigned on Wednesday night as Italy’s Prime Minister after his government had suffered an unexpected defeat in Parliament over its alliance with the United States. President Giorgio Napolitano is to open consultations on the political future of the country on Thursday.
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/ 22 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s police on Wednesday imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests in several of Harare’s increasingly restive townships. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change denounced the measures as "a state of emergency" that highlighted the insecurity of president Robert Mugabe’s regime.
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/ 22 February 2007
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) has lodged a complaint against the public broadcaster for allegedly failing to implement the findings of a report into the blacklisting of certain political commentators.
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/ 22 February 2007
At the opposite end of the good news spectrum is a human challenge expressed in the following numerical detail: according to the official definition of unemployment, there are 4,4-million people who are unemployed. That’s a 4,4 and five zeros. If you use the unofficial definition, which includes people who have given up looking for work, then it is Âprobably just less than seven million South Africans.
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/ 22 February 2007
The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has described the alleged assault on <i>Sowetan</i> reporter Vusi Ndlovu as one of the most brutal attacks on a journalist in the post-apartheid era.
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/ 22 February 2007
The government will give a million bicycles to school children throughout the country by 2015 to promote non-motorised transport (NMT), Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. There is a need to provide safe, affordable and reliable transport to pupils in rural and urban areas, Radebe told an international conference on NMT in Midrand on Thursday.