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/ 6 February 2007
The FBI has frozen funds held in customer accounts at Neteller, the "virtual wallet" payment processor, as part of its case against the firm’s two Canadian founders who were last month arrested and charged with racketeering and money laundering.
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/ 6 February 2007
It is seen as a quintessentially Russian item, on a par with vodka, felt boots and troikas. But now Coca-Cola, the ultimate symbol of Western capitalism, is to start producing kvas, the Russian drink made from fermented bread which is sometimes called "the Coke of communism".
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/ 6 February 2007
Six people were found shot dead in a Chinese restaurant in northern Germany on Monday in what police said might have been a triad killing. The bodies of three men and three women, some with their hands bound, were scattered throughout the Lin Yue restaurant in Sittensen, Lower Saxony.
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/ 6 February 2007
Exploration activity in South Africa was the lifeblood of the mining industry but it was not growing as fast as it should be compared to other countries, Chamber of Mines of South Africa chief economist Roger Baxter said on Tuesday. Baxter said: "Exploration has to be booming to boost the industry, but in the last few years we have missed the boat."
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/ 6 February 2007
Maibam Sharat was second in a line of six friends, walking past a security post with his hands up in the air as ordered by Indian troops, when he says a soldier stepped out of an armoured car and opened fire. He doesn’t know how long the shooting lasted, but when it stopped he found his friend Ranbir, who was walking in front of him, bleeding from the stomach.
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/ 6 February 2007
Johannesburg is the metropolis of Africa, the hub to which people flock in search of money, success and a better life. Over the years, the posh and thriving inner city has slowly fallen into disrepair, its levels of crime increasing and abandoned buildings being converted into slums to house the poor.
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/ 5 February 2007
Hands up, all those who can name the metro police chiefs of Tshwane, Cape Town or Johannesburg. No? But everyone knows that, in Ekurhuleni, it is Robert McBride. Few people care to know the identity of their metro police chiefs, let alone monitor their foibles or achievements, writes Rapule Tabane.
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/ 5 February 2007
Let’s get one thing straight: Robert McBride’s involvement in the bombing of Magoo’s Bar has made him a mortal enemy of some sections of the South African populace. For that act, he will be a focus of media interest until he dies. Which is not to say that everyone necessarily shares the antipathy that some of our compatriots have for the Ekurhuleni police chief, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 5 February 2007
More than 60 people were drowned off south-west Cameroon on the weekend when a motor boat crowded with passengers and cargo capsized on its way to Nigeria, witnesses and survivors said on Monday. Fon Achobang, a local newspaper reporter, said he and other colleagues saw 63 bodies being buried on Sunday after the accident.
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/ 5 February 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government on Monday joined the South African Tourism Services Association in welcoming the conviction and sentencing of the first of the men involved in the David Rattray murder. The sentence given to the man fitted the crime, said KwaZulu-Natal provincial minister of arts and culture Weziwe Thusi.