Google lost yet more of its shine on Tuesday after a senior executive at the internet search giant admitted growth at the company was slowing. Shares in Google fell 13% in early trading on Wall Street and dragged stock markets lower on both sides of the Atlantic after chief financial officer George Reyes told an investor conference in New York that ”growth will slow”.
A rogue consultant removed the wombs of 129 women because his work went unchallenged for almost a quarter of a century, according to a report into one of Ireland’s worst medical scandals. The findings of an investigation into abnormal maternity unit practices at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda triggered calls for fundamental reforms of hospital procedures in the republic.
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South Africa’s third post-1994 local government election got under way without obvious hitches at 7am on Wednesday. President Thabo Mbeki was the first voter to cast his ballot at the Colbyn voting station in Pretoria. He was welcomed by Independent Electoral Commission chairperson Brigalia Bam and chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula.
Watching the news from out of the Middle East, you might be wondering what’s going on and why — and, mostly, when’s it going to stop. The simple answer is: it isn’t. The world is now in the first stages of a multistep "end game" for global domination by the last remaining superpowers. The "energy wars" have begun in earnest and will keep on going, from here onwards.
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The recent violence surrounding the publication in the West of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad illustrate the danger of Islamic ”totalitarianism”, Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers said in a statement obtained on Tuesday. ”After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism,” they wrote.
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South Africa on Tuesday said the European Union’s plans to send a security force to back United Nations peacekeepers during upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were unwarranted as troops from the region could provide the necessary support.
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The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday dismissed urgent applications by four municipalities to stop the transfer of their assets and services to other provinces. The Merafong Demarcation Forum applied to restrain government from handing over at midnight on Tuesday their assets and service duties from Gauteng to the North West province.
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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the Western Cape is planning to conduct Wednesday’s municipal election as if there will be no power available in the province. ”We are planning for no electricity. That is the safest,” provincial electoral officer Courtney Sampson told a media briefing in Bellville on Tuesday afternoon.
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As many as 1 300 people could have died in the wave of sectarian violence that swept Iraq following the bombing of a gold-domed shrine in Samarra, it was reported on Tuesday. Most of the dead had been shot, knifed or garroted, often with their hands tied execution-style behind their backs.
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The Eritrean government has rejected a proposal by the United Nations Security Council to hold talks with an independent commission to resolve its ongoing border dispute with Ethiopia. ”The final and binding decision of the boundary commission marks the legal conclusion of the Eritrea-Ethiopia issue once and for all,” said the Eritrean foreign ministry on Monday.