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/ 2 November 2007
Saudi Arabia has signalled that it will not attend the Middle East peace conference scheduled by the United States for this month unless there is significant agreement in advance on the core issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister, also held out a vision of normalisation between the Arab world and Israel.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Labour said on Friday that preliminary findings of the ongoing inspections of compliance by the South African iron and steel industry painted a picture of an industry "fraught with high disregard of labour legislation countrywide".
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/ 2 November 2007
Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel is under police investigation for fraud and corruption, a media report said on Friday. Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s aborted probe into alleged criminal activity by police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 2 November 2007
When 152 dolphins were washed up on Iran’s southern coast mass suicide was blamed. Then suspicion was shifted to fishermen, who were said to have beaten the dolphins with grappling irons after they became entangled in fishing nets. But now a more familiar target has been accused: the US military.
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/ 2 November 2007
Indonesia’s Mount Kelud volcano in East Java is in a critical phase and could erupt any time a day after being shaken by hundreds of tremors, the country’s top volcanic expert said on Friday. Authorities raised the alert at Mount Kelud, one of Indonesia’s deadliest volcanoes, to maximum two weeks ago.
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/ 2 November 2007
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The battle for leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) would be either a two- or three-way race, businessman Saki Macozoma told students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on Thursday. ”That’s what I read,” he said in a lecture facilitated by the Platform on Public Deliberations.
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/ 2 November 2007
United States house prices saw their biggest year-on-year fall in 16 years in August, a national index showed recently, with some economists predicting a record annual fall by the year end as turmoil continues in the housing market. The figures came as the former US Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan warned of further difficulties as builders struggled to sell their rising stock of housing.
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/ 2 November 2007
Just more than a week ago, about a thousand activists from the Christian right gathered in Washington to pass judgement on the Republican presidential candidates. At the Family Research Council’s (FRC) Values Voters summit, the values most cherished did not sit well with most Americans. Polls show that a consistent and substantial majority in the US are pro-choice, support stem cell research and oppose amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage.
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/ 1 November 2007
In mid-winter I boarded a 55ft (5m) sailing yacht out of Cape Town’s Table Bay to rediscover islands and what they can teach us about coping with climate change. With the help of the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and prompted by a dog-eared copy of <i>The Song of the Dodo</i> by the science writer David Quammen, we uploaded video segments of our adventure, writes Jeff Barbee.
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/ 1 November 2007
Two commuters and a taxi driver were injured when they were caught in the crossfire of a taxi-violence shoot-out in Edenvale on Thursday. Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Inspector Jimmy Maboko said between 100 and 150 members of the Germiston Taxi Association and the Tembisa Taxi Association had gathered and began shooting at each other.