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/ 21 February 2008
The pet rabbit of Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Leonardo da Vinci, has died, the Telegraf newspaper reported on Thursday. Nicknamed Lisis, the five-year-old bunny possibly died of stress caused by a recent relocation to the presidential residence, Zatlers told the TV 5 channel.
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/ 21 February 2008
The owner of the Irish castle containing the famed Blarney Stone has dismissed claims that thousands of tourists are kissing the wrong stone every year, the Irish Examiner newspaper reported on Thursday. A new book questions the authenticity of the stone.
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/ 21 February 2008
A magnitude-6,3 earthquake struck north-eastern Nevada on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of damage in the nearest large city, Salt Lake City, Utah, although some residents were shaken by the morning quake, local radio said.
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/ 21 February 2008
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has dropped a misconduct charge against rural doctor Colin Pfaff, following a storm of protest, the doctor confirmed on Thursday. Pfaff faced the charge for administering dual therapy — two antiretroviral drugs — to prevent the infection of babies born to HIV-positive mothers.
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/ 21 February 2008
United States President George Bush, winding up a trip to Africa, promised war-scarred Liberia that the US will see its staunchest ally on the continent out of ”days of challenge and sorrow”. Bush vowed sustained US help to battle poverty and disease as well as an education initiative.
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/ 21 February 2008
Adriaan Basson reviews Hermann Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga’s <i>New History of South Africa</i>.
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/ 21 February 2008
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> Tarantino’s <i>Death Proof</i>, <i>Michael Clayton</i> and Halle Berry in <i>Things We Lost in the Fire</i>.
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/ 21 February 2008
Kenya’s political rivals are haggling over a settlement to the crisis sparked by disputed elections, but if the squabbling doesn’t bear fruit, the ordinarily stable East African country risks being plunged into war, a Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate warned on Thursday.
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/ 21 February 2008
A 23-year-old man convicted of raping an elderly woman was sent to jail for 18 years by the Grahamstown High Court on Thursday. Judge Andre Erasmus, who sat with two assessors, told Sicelo Tyatyeka, of Lingelihle, Cradock, that he would have imposed a life sentence had the victim suffered more serious injuries.
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/ 21 February 2008
Moving South African television broadcasting from analogue to digital signal is on track and ahead of most countries in the world, the Communications Department said on Thursday. Spokesperson Albi Modise said the digital signal will be activated on November 1 this year.