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/ 17 January 2008
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke will answer his critics in the African National Congress and its Youth League in a statement to be issued on Thursday. The ANC’s National Working Committee has accused Moseneke of showing disdain for delegates to its National Conference in December last year in remarks made at his recent 60th birthday party.
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/ 16 January 2008
Kevin Keegan has been appointed as manager of Newcastle United for the second time in his career, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Keegan (56), who played for the club in the 1980s and managed them for five years in the 1990s, succeeds Sam Allardyce, who left the club last week.
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/ 16 January 2008
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke will answer his critics in the African National Congress (ANC) in a statement to be issued on Thursday. The ANC’s national working committee has accused Moseneke of showing disdain for delegates to its national conference in December last year in remarks made at his recent 60th birthday party.
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/ 16 January 2008
Britain warned Russia on Wednesday that any attempt to intimidate staff of its cultural arm was ”completely unacceptable” after Russia’s state security service summoned local employees to speak to its officers. Britain’s consulate in St Petersburg said the British Council office in the northern city had been forced to shut temporarily.
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/ 16 January 2008
A court ruled on Wednesday that French oil giant Total was responsible for the 1999 sinking of the oil tanker Erika, and ordered it to pay damages for one of France’s worst environmental disasters. Total, the world’s fourth largest oil group, which chartered the Erika, was fined€375 000.
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/ 16 January 2008
The South African Air Force has grounded its fleet of Pilatus Astra PC-7 MkII aircraft following the death of a pilot in a plane crash on Tuesday. The fleet would remain grounded until further notice, South African National Defence Force headquarters said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 January 2008
Hours after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was in ”impeccable” health, Castro told local media he was not fit for public speaking. Lula raised eyebrows and quick questions about Castro’s political future, saying after a long discussion on Tuesday: ”I think Fidel is ready to take on his political role in Cuba.”
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/ 16 January 2008
Scientists in Uruguay have found the fossil remains of a 1 000kg rodent that lived two million to four million years ago — the largest rodent found to date. The giant creature probably ate soft food such as fruit or tender plants, Andres Rinderknecht and Ernesto Blanco reported on Wednesday.
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/ 16 January 2008
British national Anthony Cooper on Wednesday told the Cape Town Regional Court of his frantic efforts to put out a veld fire on the slopes of Table Mountain — caused by a cigarette he allegedly flicked from his fingers as he stood smoking near his car. Cooper has been charged with culpable homicide.