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/ 5 February 2007
The consequences of future military action against Iran could be ”wholly counterproductive as well as highly dangerous”, according to a report published on Monday. The report urges the British government to engage the United States and Iran in ”face-to-face talks” to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
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/ 5 February 2007
Teachers across Zimbabwe on Monday began an indefinite industrial action to press for better salaries and better working conditions, a union spokesperson said. Raymond Majongwe, secretary general of the radical Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe, threatened to bring schooling to a halt if his members’ wage demands are not met by the cash-strapped government.
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/ 5 February 2007
The world’s poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the world on Monday. ”The degradation of the global environment continues unabated … and the effects of climate change are being felt across the globe,” Ban said in a statement.
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/ 5 February 2007
One of the men accused of planning a thwarted coup in Equatorial Guinea turned state witness on Monday in a trial seen as a test of South Africa’s hardened stance on mercenary activity. Charges were dropped in the Pretoria Regional Court against Maitre Ruakuluka of South Africa.
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/ 5 February 2007
The South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) on Monday said it welcomes ”constructive efforts” to reduce crime. Sacob president Deidre Penfold would, however, not take sides in the debate following First National Bank’s (FNB) decision to drop an anti-crime advertising campaign.
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/ 5 February 2007
Reports that more names will be added to the United Nations Security Council list of terror suspects come from the media, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday. Pahad said he read in media reports that there had been a meeting with a ”United States senior official who did not want to be named” who said more names would be added.
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/ 5 February 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has proposed five steps for the government to realise the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA). Briefing the media at Parliament on Monday, DA spokesperson Ian Davidson said there is great value in a single economic plan to harness initiatives to accelerate economic growth.
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/ 5 February 2007
As prisoners in the United States ”war on terror” languish at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cubans nearby are unaware of what goes on inside the base. Some younger Cubans yearn for the music and clothes of the United States, but the older generation are staunch supporters of ailing President Fidel Castro.
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/ 5 February 2007
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation. Assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port hours before Gedi began the week-long meeting of about 200 traditional leaders.
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/ 5 February 2007
A South African convicted of the murder of Anglo-Zulu war expert David Rattray was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Rattray, a friend of Britain’s Prince Charles and famous for his lively oral accounts of fighting between British troops and Zulu warriors in the 19th century, was shot dead on January 26.