The United States has revealed a military attempt to rescue slain journalist James Foley from terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
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/ 25 November 2009
South Africa, short of accommodation for fans expected to flock to next year’s soccer World Cup, plans to use cruise liners as floating hotels.
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/ 3 September 2009
South Africa wants long-running power-sharing negotiations in Zimbabwe to move ahead more quickly, a senior member of the ANC said.
SA is confident that it will be ready to host the Soccer World Cup next year, but faces a challenge in transporting fans to matches.
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/ 30 December 2008
Global growth will be very weak next year, a senior European banker warned on Tuesday.
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/ 28 February 2008
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement on Thursday intended to end a post-election crisis that left 1 000 people dead. Crowds of onlookers clapped as the two rivals inked a deal at a televised ceremony to set up a coalition government.
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/ 26 February 2008
A new round of talks to end Kenya’s political crisis started on Tuesday with no clear sign of an agreement on power-sharing and with the opposition threatening to resume nationwide protests. The talks being mediated by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan had come to a standstill on Monday.
”I’d been given a ticket for parking illegally on the pavement near the Greek temples at Agrigento in southern Sicily more than a year ago. My excuse? Everyone was doing it and the car park looked full … I’d been a fugitive for too long and it was time to turn myself in.” Giles Elgood discovers it’s rather hard to pay a Sicilian parking ticket.