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/ 10 February 2008
Democrat Barack Obama is riding a burst of momentum into Tuesday’s United States presidential nominating contests with a string of weekend wins, while Republican John McCain received praise from onetime rival President George Bush as he tries to woo conservatives.
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/ 10 February 2008
British pop singer Amy Winehouse, whose rapid descent from promising newcomer to emaciated junkie played out in the full glare of the public eye last year, took home five Grammy awards on Sunday. The Soweto Gospel Choir won a second Grammy for their album African Spirit.
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/ 10 February 2008
Rebel soldiers shot East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta in the stomach at his home in Dili on Monday, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in another attack, officials said. Ramos-Horta was in a stable condition following the assassination attempt.
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/ 10 February 2008
An intense battle over the future of the Scorpions is raging between the government and the African National Congress, the Sunday Times reported. The party’s parliamentary caucus was setting up a heavyweight committee to drive the dismantling of the unit, while President Thabo Mbeki was mounting a defiant fightback campaign.
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/ 10 February 2008
World golfing number four Ernie Els has been there and done that, and a "lucky" R5 coin has accompanied him throughout his golfing exploits on the world stage. The big South African revealed a superstitious side to his game during a clinic at the driving range on the sidelines of the Indian Masters.
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/ 10 February 2008
Hansard, the official record of parliamentary proceedings, does not agree with Buyelwa Patience Sonjica’s version of recent events, the Sunday Independent reported. Sonjica, the Minister of Minerals and Energy, said on Tuesday that she did not say that all South Africans should go to bed earlier so that they could grow and become cleverer.
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/ 10 February 2008
China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century, state media reported on Sunday. A total of 17,3-million hectares of forest have been damaged across China as the result of three weeks of savage winter weather, the China Daily said.
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/ 10 February 2008
Senator Barack Obama swept the board on Saturday, pummelling Hillary Clinton in three Democratic nominating contests as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money. Obama, who is locked in a battle with Clinton for the party’s nomination, won big in Washington state, Nebraska and Louisiana, outscoring the former first lady by two to one.
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/ 10 February 2008
The United Kingdom is ”likely” to strip South Africa of its ”visa-free” status this year because of rampant corruption in the Department of Home Affairs, the Sunday Times reported. South Africans would have to pay £63 (nearly R1 000) and provide fingerprints, ”facial biometrics” and travel documents to obtain visas, the newspaper said.
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/ 10 February 2008
The Australian Parliament’s apology to Aborigines to be delivered next week will remove a ”blight on the nation’s soul”, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday. Rudd, who was elected to the government in November, has pledged to offer the apology to the so-called ”stolen generations”, who were taken from their families as children.