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/ 25 January 2008
Sri Lankan warplanes bombed a Tamil Tiger base in the far north on Friday, a day after ground troops killed 30 rebels in clashes across the region. Seven soldiers were killed in the battles on Thursday, the latest in an intensification of the 25-year civil war following the official scrapping of a truce with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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/ 25 January 2008
South Africa’s rolling power failures are a ”national emergency” but economic growth can continue at healthy levels if energy is used more efficiently, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Friday. ”It is clear that we are running our power system at utilisation levels that are overstretching maintanance,” Erwin said.
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/ 25 January 2008
Khotso Sethuntsa is the subject of The Extraordinary Khotso. Felicity Wood, writer of the book, reflects on her search for him.
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/ 25 January 2008
As I drove from the border with South Africa to my home town I recalled the refrain Zimbabweans use when pondering the economic meltdown in their country: ”surely things cannot get any worse than they are”. That mantra has helped them soldier on during the last eight years as they grappled with an ever-growing list of shortages.
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/ 25 January 2008
Up to 30 pro-Taliban militants and two soldiers were killed in clashes in a tribal region in north-western Pakistan on Friday, the military said. The clashes broke out in Darra Adam Kheil tribal region near the city of Peshawar a day after militants seized four trucks carrying ammunition and other supplies for paramilitary forces.
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/ 25 January 2008
Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh completed half-centuries as India’s tailenders piled on the runs in the fourth and final against Australia on Friday. Kumble crafted an unbeaten 86 over more than four hours while Harbhajan blasted a quick 63 as India reached 525 for nine in their first innings when tea was taken.
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/ 25 January 2008
Italy’s president will hold crisis talks with political leaders on Friday to see whether he can avoid calling snap elections after a no confidence vote forced Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s government to resign. Prodi stepped down late on Thursday after losing, as expected, the vote in the Senate.
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/ 25 January 2008
Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that United States and European interference was hindering efforts to reconcile Zimbabwe’s opposition with President Robert Mugabe’s government. ”The US and Europeans tell us what we need to do and tell Mugabe,” Zuma told reporters at the gathering of leaders in Davos.
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/ 25 January 2008
A recent book by an international photographer takes a fashionable look at township life, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 25 January 2008
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>Into the Wild</i>, directed by Sean Penn.