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/ 24 February 2006
United States President George Bush moved Thursday to shore up his reputation as a trustworthy leader in his ”war on terror” and to defuse charges that his administration had compromised US security by approving the handover of six sea ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
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/ 24 February 2006
Mike van Graan is back with the promise of fewer art attacks.
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/ 24 February 2006
Rescuers in Moscow dug through wreckage on Thursday night in a desperate search for survivors after the domed roof of a market collapsed, killing at least 56 people. The glass and steel structure covering Baumansky market in the east of the city caved in at about 5am, apparently under the weight of a heavy snowfall.
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/ 24 February 2006
A former Enron vice-president of investor relations testified that in the months before the company failed in late 2001, she witnessed behavior by top company executives that concerned her but did not think crimes were being committed. ”I observed events that I thought were wrong, so I did make a conclusion. I didn’t make a conclusion that it was legal or illegal,” Paula Rieker said under cross-examination.
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/ 24 February 2006
Matsushita Electric Industrial’s newly appointed president on Friday expressed confidence that the company and its partners would win the battle for dominance in next-generation DVD players. Fumio Otsubo, named on Thursday as head of the Japanese electronics giant behind the Panasonic brand, said he would uphold his predecessor’s policy of promoting the Blu-ray standard.
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/ 24 February 2006
A South African grandmother caught carrying more than 3kg of cocaine hidden inside garden gnomes was found guilty of drug smuggling on Friday after a week-long trial in the Auckland High Court. Linda Martin (52) had denied the charge, claiming she had been framed by a Nigerian drug ring that put the four drug-filled gnomes into a suitcase she was carrying.
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/ 24 February 2006
Dianne Tipping-Woods speaks to the talented Justin Dingwall, whose photo exhibition <i>Potraying Life</i> is on at the Imaging Hub Photographic Studio in Pretoria.
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/ 24 February 2006
Henning Rasmuss of the sharpCITY collective reflects on designing for new realities.
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/ 24 February 2006
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to young photographer on the rise, Mikhael Subotsky.
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/ 24 February 2006
Iraqi authorities struggled to contain a convulsion of sectarian violence on Thursday in which more than 150 people died in massacres, armed clashes, suicide bombs and reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. Sunni religious authorities said 128 Sunni mosques had been attacked and three clerics killed.