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/ 19 October 2006
The end of the marathon Richtersveld land-claim dispute is in sight, with news on Thursday that agreement has been reached on a settlement with the state. At a series of meetings this week, members of the Richtersveld community gave their approval to a draft memorandum of understanding.
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/ 19 October 2006
The adoptive mother of 21-month-old Tammy Herman, who died in what has been called one of South Africa’s worst child-abuse cases, was granted R10 000 bail on Thursday. Zaibunisa Herman (34) briefly appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court in connection with the child’s death in January.
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/ 19 October 2006
The complete evolutionary works of Charles Darwin have gone online, including the stolen notebook he carried in his pocket around the Galapagos Islands. Tens of thousands of pages of text and pictures and audio files have been made available, including some previously unpublished manuscripts and diaries of the great British scientist.
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/ 19 October 2006
A Chinese entrepreneur is suing a Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of ”World Cup air” and for scotching his plans to bottle and sell ”2008 Olympic air”, a newspaper said on Thursday. Li Jie, who describes himself as chief executive of the Lunar Embassy to China and once tried to sell land on the moon, sought a permit to sell ”World Cup air” for 50 yuan (,30).
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/ 19 October 2006
The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on Wednesday called for the ”swift and effective” implementation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea and vowed that Washington would continue to protect its allies in the region amid growing fears of an arms race in the far east.
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/ 19 October 2006
Alarmed by the antics of a fictional TV reporter who portrays their country as a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists, Kazakh authorities have invited the British comedian who plays the character to come and see the truth for himself. Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh first deputy foreign ministe, asked British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to visit the vast, oil-rich steppe nation.
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/ 19 October 2006
Kenyan football officials on Thursday accused Fifa of applying double standards in its condemnation of the country as they braced for another suspension for the second time in as many years. Fifa’s executive committee proposed on Wednesday that Kenya be suspended for failing to respect agreements to resolve recurrent problems in the country’s football association.
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/ 19 October 2006
One of the last redoubts of cheap housing in the booming environment of Manhattan has been sold to a property company for ,4-billion. The sale of 110 blocks of flats in lower Manhattan marks the end of a fierce battle for ownership of the area, known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
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/ 19 October 2006
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it expects its sales of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips to hit a record -billion this year. The South Korean firm also announced it is developing a new DRAM chip expected to boost the world market to -billion by 2011.
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/ 19 October 2006
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Thursday urged Eritrea and rebel groups he said it supports to talk peace and stop trying to destabilise his Horn of Africa country. The United Nations said Eritrea’s decision to move troops and tanks into a United Nations buffer zone between the two countries was a ”major breach” of a 2000 peace agreement.