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/ 19 October 2006
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran will not back down ”an inch” from its nuclear programme, and launched another attack on Israel, calling it a fraudulent regime that cannot survive. Iran has firmly rejected warnings by the West to Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear activities.
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/ 19 October 2006
Three young giraffes died at a Czech zoo, famed for its work on endangered species, as a result of a power cut, the head of the zoo said on Thursday. ”When the power came on again in their enclosure after the power failure, the animals were startled by the lamps. They bolted and suffered fatal injuries when they fell,” the zoo said.
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/ 19 October 2006
Lance Armstrong has blasted a new book, going on sale on Thursday, that claims to include fresh doping allegations against the seven-time Tour de France champion. LA Officiel has already caused a stir in Armstrong’s camp, which tried to debunk the book before it even hit the store shelves.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Highveld Lions will be pushing hard to establish their spot in the upper region of the log when they play an important double-header in the MTN domestic cricket championship this weekend. The Titans’ victory over the Warriors in East London on Wednesday has opened up the race for the semifinals.
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/ 19 October 2006
Unknown gunmen killed 38 civilians in at least five attacks in southern Sudan, a regional government official said on Thursday. "A group of armed men yesterday [Wednesday] killed 38 people, among whom were women and children," southern Sudan’s interior minister, Paul Mayom Akec, told reporters in Juba.
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/ 19 October 2006
Two men were killed in a light aircraft crash on Thursday morning near Petrusburg in the Free State, police said. Superintendent Sam Sesing said the Piper Cherokee 140 crashed into an open piece of land on the farm Spitskop about 10km west of Petrusburg.
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/ 19 October 2006
A South African astronomer has made a startling discovery about one of the world’s most closely studied galaxies. A team of scientists led by David Block from the University of the Witwatersrand has found new evidence that the Andromeda galaxy was involved in a violent head-on collision with its neighbouring dwarf galaxy more than 200-million years ago.
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/ 19 October 2006
Turkey’s Parliament backed on Tuesday a declaration condemning the French National Assembly’s approval of a draft Bill that would make it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide by Ottoman Turks in 1915. But the government stopped short of taking measures against French interests and companies, aware this could harm Turkey’s economy more than France’s.
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/ 19 October 2006
Defence parastatal Denel on Thursday reported a net loss of R1,377-billion for the year ended March 2006, compared with a net loss of R1,561-billion in 2005. Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin commented: "I’m pleased to acknowledge a glimmer of an upturn in Denel which, frankly, is ahead of my expectations."
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/ 19 October 2006
Blanket amnesty will not be granted for all involved in fraud in the Department of Housing, and each case will be dealt with on merit, Director General of Housing Itumeleng Kotsoane said on Thursday. ”We do not want to send the wrong message that corruption pays,” he told a media briefing at Parliament.