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/ 10 February 2007
People camped out in shelters or with relatives in Indonesia’s flood-hit capital began returning to homes on Saturday to clear away mud and debris, as authorities took advantage of receding waters to remove piles of wet garbage from the streets. Much of the city remains inundated following the worst floods in memory.
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/ 10 February 2007
An NGO on Friday accused finance ministers of the world’s leading industrial nations of ignoring the needs of Africa. The Group of Seven (G7) meeting taking place in Essen is ”missing a critical opportunity to help Africa break the back of extreme poverty and Aids”, the advocacy group Data said.
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/ 10 February 2007
The families of 17 people suspected of stealing royal china in Morocco will ask King Mohammed VI to step in and halt their prosecution, a lawyer in the case said on Friday. ”They know the monarch’s mercy towards his subjects,” said Me Abdelatif Wahabi, a defence lawyer in the case.
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/ 10 February 2007
Bird flu has reappeared, after an eight-month lull, on poultry farms in a fourth state in northern Nigeria, officials said on Friday. ”In the past one week we culled 5 000 chickens following laboratory confirmation of the existence of the avian flu virus in samples of dead chickens,” said a state agriculture commissioner.
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/ 10 February 2007
Assaults on police stations killing seven, a chopped-up body discarded in rubbish bags, three execution-style murders and foreign tourists grazed by bullets: it’s been a nasty week in the resort city of Acapulco, defying a much-flaunted crackdown on drug-related violence and delivering a serious blow to Mexico’s tourism industry.
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/ 10 February 2007
Doctors investigating the sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith said on Friday night that prescription drugs had been found in the model’s hotel room, but that no pills had been present in her stomach. Smith (39) died after collapsing in a Florida hotel room on Thursday. She was a former Playboy playmate of the year.
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/ 10 February 2007
United States preparations for an air strike against Iran are at an advanced stage, in spite of repeated public denials by the Bush administration, according to informed sources in Washington. The present military build-up in the Gulf would allow the US to mount an attack by the spring.
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/ 10 February 2007
Two-time champion Phil Mickelson sailed to a five-under 67 and a share of the lead with Jim Furyk at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Friday. Mickelson had to cope only with the cold and rain, but not much wind, which made the oceanside Pebble Beach course tame.
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/ 10 February 2007
Jon Kent, drafted back into the Dolphins side in place of the injured Lance Klusener, made the most of his chances in their Supersport Series cricket match at the Oval in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. The match between the Warriors and the Lions was evenly poised, and Goolam Bodi helped the Titans declare with their score on 508/7.
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/ 10 February 2007
”What’s all the fuss about?” said South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack on Friday while commenting on reports that the work-permit application for new Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira had still to be ratified by the Department of Home Affairs.