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/ 20 January 2007
Spanish motorcycle rider Marc Coma blew his chances of a second successive Dakar Rally win on Friday when he lost his way in the desert, hit a tree and knocked himself unconscious. The runaway leader was picked up by a medical helicopter just 57km into the 13th stage from Kayes to Tambacounda in Senegal.
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/ 20 January 2007
Foreign powers cannot "impose" political or economic solutions on Zimbabwe even though the deepening crisis in the African nation threatens to destabilise its neighbours, a senior Mozambique official said on Friday. "Each time you try to impose a solution from the outside, the results most of the time are not what we like," said Henrique Banze, Mozambique’s Deputy Foreign Minister.
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/ 20 January 2007
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, on Friday offered the bleakest medical update yet on Fidel Castro, saying he was ”battling for his life”. The pessimistic view came days after Chávez, who is one of Castro’s closest allies, and who speaks with him regularly, had said his recovery was slow and not without risks.
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/ 19 January 2007
The first day of the second Castle Lager Test between South Africa and Pakistan at St George’s Park on Friday ended with honours more or less even. After bowling South Africa out for a paltry 124 before tea, Pakistan had 135 for six at the close for an overall lead of 11 runs.
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/ 19 January 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday urged the African Anglican church to concentrate on the continent’s grim problems rather than on the row over gay clergy, and said persecuting gay people is akin to racism. The debate over the role of homosexuals in the church threatens to split the world’s 77-million Anglicans.
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/ 19 January 2007
The Western Cape directorate for public prosecutions is to decide the fate of Zimbabwean student Tinashe Rioga, who allegedly tried to hijack a South African Airways flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg in June last year. Rioga appeared in court on Friday following a month of observation at the Valkenberg psychiatric hospital.
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/ 19 January 2007
KwaZulu-Natal education minister Ina Cronje rushed to Mahlabatini Primary School in the Ulundi district on Friday after hearing that the floor of an old toilet block had caved in while nine boys were inside, her department said. The boys, aged between nine and 12, had to be freed from the rubble by an excavating machine.
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/ 19 January 2007
Record champion Stephane Peterhansel extended his lead over Mitsubishi teammate and French compatriot Luc Alphand after the 13th stage of the Dakar Rally on Friday. With two stages to go, the 2004 and 2005 winner moved 11 minutes and 15 seconds ahead of Alphand.
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/ 19 January 2007
The bail application of the woman accused of murdering City Press editor Mathatha Tshedu’s son, Avhatakali Netshisaulu, was postponed on Friday in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court. Netshisaulu’s wife Mulalo Sivhidzo and her five co-accused will remain in custody until their next appearance on February 2.
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/ 19 January 2007
Marat Safin was bounced out of the Australian Open in the third round by Andy Roddick in a bad-tempered dogfight on Friday as Serena Williams announced she is back with a vengeance. World number one Roger Federer also made the fourth round, as did women’s champion Amelie Mauresmo and Russian third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.