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/ 11 February 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi lives with violent crime on his doorstep in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria, but he is spared due to protection by armed guards, the Sunday Times reported — and at least seven armed robberies were reported in President Thabo Mbeki’s Pretoria neighbourhood in one month.
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/ 11 February 2007
A divided Germany will know on Monday whether a former Red Army Faction terrorist is to be granted freedom after 24 years behind bars — ending weeks of speculation over the fate of Brigitte Mohnhaupt (57), who is serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her involvement in several murders.
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/ 11 February 2007
Vladimir Putin delivered the strongest attack of his seven-year Russian presidency on the United States on Saturday, blaming it for fanning conflicts across the world through the unilateral use of "hyper-force". He said the US is seeking to impose its standards on other nations and triggering new arms races.
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/ 10 February 2007
”In last week’s report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have a mayday alert. The fourth scientific assessment in 17 years tells us that the first tank battalions have already broken through the border. In 1990, in a hotel in Berkshire, southern England, I listened to the scientists who had completed the IPCC’s first assessment,” writes Jeremy Leggett.
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/ 10 February 2007
Democrat Barack Obama launched his 2008 White House run on Saturday with a pledge to end the war in Iraq and bridge the partisan divide that has blocked political progress on issues from energy to healthcare. Obama (45) is a rising party star who would be the first black US president if elected.
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/ 10 February 2007
Sunday’s MTN one-day international between South Africa and Pakistan is of extreme importance to both teams after Friday’s match in Port Elizabeth was abandoned because of rain. With the World Cup just weeks away, South Africa are eager to show that their defeat was just a blip in their run-up to the World Cup.
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/ 10 February 2007
African National Congress Adelaide Tambo’s death at the end of January came at a time when she was needed the most, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. The ANC and South Africans need to draw on the example set by Tambo, Mbeki told a crowd of thousands at her funeral in Wattville, outside Johannesburg.
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/ 10 February 2007
Thousands gathered at Wattville Stadium on the East Rand on Saturday for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Adelaide Tambo, who died on January 31 aged 77. Crowd members described Tambo as a kind and loving mother who was always concerned about the well-being of her fellow countrymen.
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/ 10 February 2007
A British teenager had a full English breakfast tattooed on to his head on Friday — including bacon, eggs, sausages, beans and a full set of cutlery. Nineteen-year-old Dayne Gilbey, from Coventry in central England, spent six hours under the needle of tattoo artist Blane Dickinson after answering an add for a willing victim.
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/ 10 February 2007
Conservationists in Nepal have opened a special ”restaurant” to offer safe food to vultures, whose existence is being threatened from eating carcasses of cattle treated with drugs. Scientists says South Asia’s vultures are on the brink of extinction largely due to farmers dosing their cattle with a drug used to treat inflammation.