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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.
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/ 5 November 2007
Two more men have been arrested in connection with the murder of former crime journalist Elaine Anderson, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Henry Budhram said the two men -– aged 24 and 33 — were nabbed by police on Saturday in the Ntoubeni area in Edendale.
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/ 5 November 2007
Olympique Lyon’s Czech forward Milan Baros was caught speeding at 268km/h in his Ferrari, a club source confirmed Friday. Local newspaper Le Progres quoted police as saying the former Liverpool player had broken the record for speeding for that French region, set by a motorcyclist who reached 246km/h.
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/ 5 November 2007
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province opened fire on refugees during a violent protest over food distributions on Monday, killing a child and wounding 11 civilians. Villagers driven from their homes three weeks ago by fighting between government soldiers and rebels had erected barricades in the town of Kiwanja.
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/ 5 November 2007
Johannesburg police arrested a man on Monday in connection with an armed robbery at a Pick ‘n Pay supermarket in Mulbarton over the weekend. Police spokesperson Captain Julia Claasen said the man was found in a ditch where he had been hiding since the robbery on Sunday evening.
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/ 5 November 2007
China’s maiden lunar probe successfully entered the moon’s orbit on Monday, officials said, a critical step in its year-long mission to photograph and map the surface of the celestial body. Chang’e I blasted off on October 24, signalling China’s rising space ambitions and Beijing’s participation in a renewed race to explore the moon.
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/ 5 November 2007
Spain’s Dani Pedrosa snatched the runners-up spot in the MotoGP world championship with victory in the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix after rival Valentino Rossi had to retire because of a technical problem. It was the first time that five-times world champion Rossi has finished outside the top two in any category.
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Big business is to fork out R5-million for a seat on the sidelines of the African National Congress (ANC) national conference next month, with some of that money likely to end up in the party’s coffers. Thirty businesses have applied for a stall in the ANC’s network lounge.
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/ 5 November 2007
A slim majority of the population favoured racial quotas in national sports teams, a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council said. The results from the South African Social Attitudes Survey showed there were still strong racial disparities in the level of support for quotas.