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/ 31 December 2008
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday ruled that a leading human rights campaigner and 15 other activists should remain in custody pending a remand hearing.
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/ 31 December 2008
Bangladesh remained on course for an unlikely victory in the first Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday, despite the loss of Mohammad Ashraful.
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/ 31 December 2008
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday she would share power with the opposition despite winning a massive majority.
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/ 31 December 2008
The match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs has been switched from Loftus Versfeld to the Johannesburg Stadium.
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/ 31 December 2008
Coup leaders in Guinea named a civilian banker as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power.
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/ 31 December 2008
Gaza was largely quiet on Wednesday with just two air strikes reported, a stark contrast with the previous four days of heavy aerial bombardment.
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/ 31 December 2008
Mark Felt, who has died at the age of 95, was appalled by the sleazy echoes of the pseudonym jokingly wished on him by Howard Simons.
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/ 31 December 2008
Another day, another batch of warning signs indicating the world will enter 2009 in the throes of a sharp economic slowdown.
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/ 31 December 2008
Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich defied fellow Democrats by appointing a successor on Tuesday to fill Barack Obama’s vacant US Senate seat.
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/ 31 December 2008
In at least one obvious way, 2008 was a pretty good year in my country. We made history in electing an African-American president.