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A suicide truck bomber blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding 40. The small truck exploded in a parking lot between the College of Economic Sciences, a private university in western Baghdad’s residential Iskan district, and a large foodstuff warehouse belonging to the Trade Ministry
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/ 13 February 2007
Having acquired his work permit on Monday to resume his duties as Bafana Bafana coach, Carlos Parreira set about organising a friendly game for his team in March ahead of an African Nations Cup qualifier against Chad. Premier Soccer League CEO Trevor Phillips announced that the League would modify its fixtures so that Parreira could fit in a game on March 13.
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/ 13 February 2007
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday shrugged off the threat of a United States attack and said accusations that Tehran was arming insurgents in Iraq represented an attempt to find a scapegoat for US "defeats and failures". The British government, however, backed Washington’s claims of covert Iranian arms supplies to insurgents.
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/ 13 February 2007
The visit this week of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to the United States has elements of a homecoming as she defends her government’s development policies before a three-day World Bank gathering of international experts and delegates from at least 20 countries.
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/ 13 February 2007
A former leader of the Baader-Meinhof gang that terrorised West Germany in the 1970s and 80s is to be freed from prison after 24 years following a court ruling on Monday. Brigitte Mohnhaupt (57) who is serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her role in the murders of several prominent Germans, will be freed on five years’ probation next month.
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/ 13 February 2007
A mob beat a man to death after he was caught allegedly stealing from a house in Etwatwa in Benoni on Monday. The three were caught ”red handed” by a homeowner, said Superintendent Eugene Opperman. A large group of residents began assaulting the three men with various weapons. They also threw boiling water over them.
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/ 13 February 2007
China has discovered huge resources of vital minerals buried in the Tibetan plateau, locating more than 600 potential sites for new mines, state media said on Tuesday. The plateau has reserves of 30 or 40-million tonnes of copper, 40-million tonnes of lead and zinc and several billion tonnes of iron ore, the China Daily reported.
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/ 13 February 2007
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has been rocked by a controversial plan to extend his rule by two years, and analysts said despite resistance by some of his lieutenants, the veteran leader will eventually bulldoze the proposals through. Mugabe’s controversial plan to stay in office will see him extend his current term, which ends next year, to 2010.
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/ 13 February 2007
It was intended as a period of national reflection. A 15-minute pause at midday to mark the first anniversary of what many consider to be the spark that lit the fuse of Iraq’s civil war. As Baghdad’s clocks registered 12.20pm on Monday, Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, appeared on state television to appeal for calm, for national unity and for an end to the violence.
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/ 13 February 2007
Ségolène Royal on Monday received the nicknames of "Maman Ségo" and "Big mother" for her raft of promises to ease France’s social injustices and nurture the nation as she would her own children. But the Socialist candidate prompted right-wing criticisms that she had not spelled out how she would fund her promised bountiful state aid to the vulnerable.