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The French opposition on Monday dismissed President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Chad to bring seven Europeans home as a ”Zorro act” as questions mounted over a charity accused of trying to abduct 103 children. Three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses came back on Sarkozy’s presidential jet.
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/ 5 November 2007
Fire damaged five operating theatres at Coronation Hospital in Newclare, Johannesburg, on Monday, causing several patients to be moved to nearby hospitals, the provincial department of health said. Patients who require emergency medical operations were moved to Johannesburg and Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospitals.
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/ 5 November 2007
A British warship, the HMS Southampton, is expected to arrive in Cape Town on Monday for a visit on the final part of an eight-month deployment from the United Kingdom. The ship has operated around the Pacific, South America and the South Atlantic as the UK’s ”on call” warship in the area.
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/ 5 November 2007
Britons now send more than one billion SMSs a week — as many as were sent in the whole of 1999, figures out on Monday showed. People in Britain sent 4 825-billion SMSs during September 2007, an increase of 25% on September last year, according to the Mobile Data Association.
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/ 5 November 2007
A Durban motorist shot a hijacker on Sunday night when a gang pounced on him, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Captain Debbie O’ Brien said several armed men had attempted to hijack a man in Sandhurst Road in New Germany at about 9:30pm.
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/ 5 November 2007
An autopsy of elite runner Ryan Shay was inconclusive after the 28-year-old collapsed and died in Central Park at the United States men’s marathon Olympic trials. ”We want to take a closer look at the heart tissue,” said Ellen Borakove, spokesperson for the city medical examiner’s office
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The official review of Rugby World Cup 2007 was published last week and, notwithstanding the usual caveat concerning lies, damned lies and statistics, it makes for an interesting read, writes former England and British Lions lock Paul Ackford in the Daily Telegraph.
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/ 5 November 2007
Mohammad Yousuf and Salman Butt hit half-centuries to help Pakistan reach a competitive 239-7 in the opening one-day international against India on Monday. Middle-order batsman Yousuf, dropped on 10, top-scored with an unbeaten 83 while left-handed opener Butt hit a brisk 50 in his comeback match.
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/ 5 November 2007
Egypt’s ruling party gave ageing politician Safwat el-Sherif another term as party secretary general on Monday, ending speculation that President Hosni Mubarak’s son Gamal might take that position. Sherif (73) has been near the top of the National Democratic Party (NDP) since its foundation in 1977 and has been secretary general since 2002.
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/ 5 November 2007
A German pensioner secretly cut down or shortened 122 trees in a publicly owned forest to give his holiday cottage a clear view of the Baltic Sea, police said on Thursday. The 70-year-old Hamburg resident told police he had felled 56 trees with a chainsaw and left only the bottom four metres of 66 others.