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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
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.
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/ 19 October 2006
Zinedine Zidane said he was coping well with life outside soccer and had no immediate plans to embark on a coaching career. The former France and Real Madrid playmaker, who retired after his country’s defeat by Italy in the World Cup final in July, said he did not miss competitive football.
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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
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 Tens of thousands of pages of text and pictures and audio files have been made available, including some previously unpublished manuscripts and diaries of the great British scientist.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
Housing delivery in South Africa needs to double from the current delivery rate of about 250 000 housing units a year to 500 000 units if the backlog is to be removed and supply to new urban residents to be fulfilled, Director General of Land and Housing Irumuleng Kotsoane said on Thursday.
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/ 19 October 2006
The MTN Group on Thursday issued a tender for its marketing advertising account as the group strives to entrench its position as the leader in telecommunications in developing markets in Africa and the Middle East. Ten major advertising agencies have been invited to pitch for the MTN account.
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/ 19 October 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday shifted ground on the continuing presence of British troops in Iraq by saying it was government policy to leave the country within 10 to 16 months — so long as the security situation allowed. Blair’s comments appear to be an attempt to pacify the restive mood of the British army.
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/ 19 October 2006
The wife of a former radio personality died of smoke inhalation in a veld fire which got out of control on Tuesday. Madelein Engelbrecht (41) the wife of the former managing director of Jacaranda FM, Willem Engelbrecht, was fighting a veld fire with other farmers near Dewagendrift, east of Pretoria, when she was she was overcome by the smoke.