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/ 22 January 2007
Canada will spend 30-million Canadian dollars (United States $25,5-million) to preserve the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest, home to aboriginal communities and tall trees, the federal government announced last week. "We know there is a strong link between a healthy ecosystem, a healthy society and Canada’s economic prosperity," Environment Minister John Baird said in a statement.
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/ 22 January 2007
Salvage teams on Sunday battled to secure a damaged container ship grounded off the English coast, as 200 tonnes of oil and other hazardous materials threatened the nearby coastline. The stricken MSC Napoli was deliberately run aground after it was damaged during a storm on Thursday.
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/ 22 January 2007
One person was killed and two others injured after a powerful undersea earthquake rocked northern Indonesia, officials said on Monday, as a series of serious aftershocks continued to rattle the area. The initial, 6,5-magnitude earthquake struck Sulawesi province at 7.27pm local time on Sunday.
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/ 22 January 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has asked for a probe into the alleged misleading of Parliament by the Minister in the Presidency, Essop Pahad. The DA has accused Pahad of misleading Parliament by denying, in 2004, that the Presidency had facilitated deal with author Ronald Suresh Roberts for a book on President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 22 January 2007
The young Pretoria prostitute at the centre of a row over alleged police brutality found the courage to come out of hiding and make a statement to police on Sunday, newspaper reports said. National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has rejected the accusation of police brutality as an ”absolute thumb-suck”.
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/ 22 January 2007
South Africa have an uphill battle to save the second Castle Lager Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. At stumps on the third day, Pakistan — chasing 191 to win — had eight without loss. Despite being without Shoaib Akhtar, who has a hamstring injury, Pakistan had South Africa on the back foot for most of the day.
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/ 22 January 2007
Members of the Cape Cobras provincial cricket team were held up at gunpoint at a Nando’s fast-food restaurant near the airport in Johannesburg on Saturday night and robbed of their wallets, watches and cellphones, the Cape Times reported on Monday.
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/ 22 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s respected Roman Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on Sunday decried deepening hardships in the country, including hunger, deaths caused by a doctors’ strike and a record dropout rate in state schools over spiralling education fees. The commission called for political reforms by President Robert Mugabe’s authoritarian government.
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/ 22 January 2007
A South African citizen accused of having links to al-Qaeda has dismissed the allegations against him as ”patently false and devoid of merit”. The Sunday Times reported that the man and his cousin had been named on the United Nations Security Council’s list of terror suspects for alleged links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
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/ 22 January 2007
At first glance it is standard Hollywood red carpet fare: A-list celebrities such as Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Lopez brandishing their diamond jewellery for the cameras. But there is much more to these photocalls than mere fashion statement. The stars are part of a multimillion-dollar campaign by the industry to head off a potential public relations disaster in the form of a new Hollywood film.