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/ 19 January 2007
Botswana President Festus Mogae has met with a small number of Bushmen in an effort to persuade them not to return to their life of hunting and gathering in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Only about 100 of the 2 000 Bushmen in New Xade attended Thursday’s meeting with the president.
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/ 19 January 2007
It has all of the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster: a mysterious and gruesome death by poisoning, several shadowy ex-spies, plenty of political intrigue — and a London sushi bar. In fact, no fewer than three Hollywood studios are bidding to make a film about the life and death of Alexander Litvinenko.
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/ 19 January 2007
Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to about -billion, or 10% of all sales, but have not yet reached the industry’s ”holy grail” of offsetting the fall in CD sales, a trade organisation said. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry expects digital sales to account for a quarter of all sales worldwide by 2010.
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/ 19 January 2007
Mike Hussey showed why he is regarded as the best finisher in one-day cricket when he guided Australia to a four-wicket win over England in a low scoring tri-series international on Friday. Hussey scored an unbeaten 46 in Brisbane to steer the world champions to their victory target with more than 11 overs to spare.
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/ 19 January 2007
Dorothy Brislin pays tribute to Richard Ishmail and his lasting contribution to the culture of change.
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/ 19 January 2007
The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will attempt to inject impetus into the drive for an Israeli-Palestine peace settlement by convening a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East negotiators early next month, for the first time for almost six months.
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/ 19 January 2007
Writer and feminist Alice Walker talks to Sara Wajid about growing older, her affair with Tracy Chapman and the connection between the niqab and high heels.
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/ 19 January 2007
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya pays tribute to Doc Bikitsha and Sipho Sepamla who both articulated an urban black experience, albeit from totally different points of view.
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/ 19 January 2007
Sixty seals at a Dutch refuge took shelter from the devastating storm that swept across Europe in a cinema, officials said on Friday. The Pieterburen refuge for seals that get swept off the Baltic Sea became besieged after the storm hit on Thursday, its director, Lenie ‘t Hart, told the ANP Dutch news agency.
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/ 19 January 2007
Uganda’s ruling party has approved a plan to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia, officials said on Friday, making the deployment almost certain to go ahead. President Yoweri Museveni has pledged 1Â 000 troops to a proposed 8Â 000-strong peacekeeping force under a United Nations-approved plan.