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/ 20 February 2007
A delay by the Competition Commission in deciding whether Fruit & Veg City and Pick’n Pay should enter into a partnership has forced the two bodies to withdraw from the proposed deal. Fruit & Veg City managing director Brian Coppin said the groups would not be pursuing their deal because of ”an already unacceptable regulatory delay”.
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/ 20 February 2007
Mortar bombs hit several parts of Mogadishu before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people in one of the fiercest bombardments since an Islamist movement was chased from Somalia’s capital last month. The hilltop presidential palace, Villa Somalia, and the coastal city’s defence headquarters were among the targets hit.
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/ 20 February 2007
Thousands of Metrobus commuters were left stranded on Tuesday morning as none of the company’s 457 buses were operating. Metrobus managing director Bheki Shongwe said non-striking union, the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union, told its members not to work on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2007
A campaign to improve the manners of Beijing’s queue-jumping residents ahead of the Olympics is showing results, although a gold-medal standard is still a long way off, state press reported on Tuesday. Incidents of littering, spitting, flaunting traffic rules and pushing ahead in queues have all started to decline since 2005, the Xinhua news agency said.
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/ 20 February 2007
The worst arms control dispute of the post-Cold War era was taking shape on Monday when Poland and the Czech Republic displayed their keenness to host facilities for the Pentagon’s missile defence shield, Russia threatened to target the central Europeans, and Germany denounced the US moves as potentially destabilising.
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/ 20 February 2007
The fate of 300 of Johannesburg’s poorest residents hung in the balance on Tuesday as the City of Johannesburg appeals a court ruling preventing it from evicting them from some of the inner-city’s worst buildings. The Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal heard argument in the city’s appeal.
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/ 20 February 2007
Nearly a century after it was founded, Israel’s first and most famous kibbutz has voted to give up its early socialist ideals and to privatise itself. The changes at Degania, which was founded where the Sea of Galilee meets the river Jordan, were agreed by a vote and come after a one-year trial in which residents for the first time received private salaries.
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/ 20 February 2007
Fitness and fielding hold the key if Pakistan want to turn their huge potential into success in the World Cup in the Caribbean. Pakistan have had a dismal build-up to their Cup campaign as question marks hang over the fitness of key bowlers Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif and Umar Gul, with fears that none could feature.
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/ 20 February 2007
Ever since their stunning capture of the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy for the first time three years ago in England, there has been widespread optimism in the Caribbean that West Indies could be the first host nation to win the World Cup.
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/ 20 February 2007
Brothers Andy and Grant Flower are still not interested in returning to the Zimbabwe cricket team as long as the present administration remains. The pair was speaking on Monday after playing for the World XI against the West Indies All Stars as part of the reopening of Kensington Oval on Saturday.