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/ 18 January 2007
Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis have developed a friendly rivalry over who can dispose of their opponents quickest in the Australian Open’s early stages. The two former world number ones have both been in dominant form at the season-opening Grand Slam, where a scheduling coincidence has meant they took to the court at the same time for their matches in the first two rounds.
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/ 18 January 2007
A senior commander of Colombia’s right-wing militias has admitted taking part in some of the country’s most grisly crimes in the first of what could become a flood of confessions from demobilised paramilitary leaders. Salvatore Mancuso told a prosecutor in MedellÃn this week that he was responsible for hundreds of kidnappings, murders and massacres.
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/ 18 January 2007
Militants in Nigeria released five Chinese hostages and one of three Italian oil-workers seized in separate attacks in the country’s oil-rich southern delta region, officials and militants said on Thursday. Nigerian militants have frequently taken foreign workers hostage since launching a wave of attacks on the country’s oil industry since early 2006.
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/ 18 January 2007
Hillary Clinton risked being outflanked in the race for the United States Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday when she revised her stance on the Iraq war but failed to go far enough to satisfy anti-war critics. Clinton took to television and radio studios for a media blitz on Wednesday morning to set out a new position after a visit to Iraq and Afghanistan last week.
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/ 18 January 2007
China has promised to help Zimbabwe overcome its economic woes arising from sanctions by Western countries, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. Its website said the undertaking was given by Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Yuan Nansheng when he paid Acting President Joice Mujuru a courtesy call.
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/ 18 January 2007
Racial tension is running high in Greytown after the murder of the town’s acting municipal manager Sydney Sikhakhane, media reports said on Thursday. The alleged killers were members of local Muslim community, and Muslim businessmen had received threats from other residents.
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/ 18 January 2007
A British opposition party has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to come clean over his involvement in a controversial R30-billion arms deal between the South African government and British arms manufacturers BAE, media reports said on Thursday.
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/ 18 January 2007
Their uniforms said police but their actions said firefighters. The four officers sauntered to the centre of the buzzing crowd and did all that was left to do: stamp out the flames roasting yet another victim of mob justice in Kenya.
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/ 18 January 2007
Surrounded by throngs of Hindu pilgrims at India’s biggest religious gathering, holy man Kanhaiya Lal Maharaj says he has balanced a water pitcher on his head for 24 years and has the dent in his skull to prove it. ”This is a moving temple, like a mobile phone,” he said, perched on a stool and showing the pitcher to onlookers.
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/ 18 January 2007
The Presidency on Wednesday night described a claim by the Democratic Alliance (DA) that it had sponsored author Ronald Suresh Roberts to write a book about President Thabo Mbeki as an attempt to tarnish the integrity of the Presidency. On Wednesday the DA accused Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad of not giving ”an honest answer” to a parliamentary question.