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The religious head of the Anglican church sparked an angry row in the United Kingdom on Friday after saying the adoption of some parts of sharia law alongside Britain’s legal system "seems unavoidable". Leaders across the political spectrum criticised Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s call for "constructive accommodation".
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/ 8 February 2008
Holders Egypt and Cameroon will meet in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final after two remarkable semifinals on Thursday condemned hot favourites Côte d’Ivoire and hosts Ghana to elimination. Defending champions Egypt ended Ivorian dreams with a 4-1 win in Kumasi, prompting thousands of celebrating fans to pour on to the streets in Cairo.
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/ 8 February 2008
A gunman killed two police officers and three city officials on Thursday night when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St Louis, police said. The gunman, who was later shot dead by police, was identified by witnesses as 52-year-old Charles ”Cookie” Thornton, a contractor in a feud with local officials.
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/ 8 February 2008
John McCain effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday when his main rival, Mitt Romney, near to tears, dropped out of the race. Only one person now stands between McCain and the United States presidency: the Democratic choice for the November election.
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/ 8 February 2008
South African Rugby Union (Saru) deputy president Mike Stofile faces questions after Saru’s audit committee found he had no mandate to discuss the future of former Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer with him. Stofile, who has ambitions to defeat president Oregan Hoskins at Saru’s presidential elections next month, met Meyer on January 22 in Johannesburg.
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/ 8 February 2008
British police have concluded that Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide bomb and not by an assassin’s bullet, he New York Times reported in its Friday editions. The findings, if confirmed, would support the Pakistani government’s explanation of Bhutto’s death.
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/ 8 February 2008
An estate agent who took a prospective buyer to view a house in central England found the owner hanging dead in a cupboard, the agency said Thursday. It was the first viewing of the £350 000 ( 000) house which had been on the market for a week.
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/ 8 February 2008
Tobacco use could kill a billion people this century unless governments act now to reduce smoking, the United Nations said on Thursday. In a strongly-worded report the World Health Organisation, the UN’s public health arm, said no country was doing all it could to curb tobacco use.
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/ 8 February 2008
A woman passenger on a New Zealand commuter plane has been charged with hijacking after she allegedly stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the 19-seat aircraft, police said on Friday. Neither pilot was seriously hurt and they were able to land the plane safely.
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/ 8 February 2008
Zimbabwe’s former finance minister Simba Makoni — who announced his bid to challenge President Robert Mugabe in presidential elections next month — on Thursday taunted the octogenarian leader, suggesting he could unseat Mugabe as the ruling party’s candidate and stand for the presidency in his place.