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The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Zimbabwe’s chief diplomat in Berlin to protest comments from the country’s information minister, who was reported as calling Chancellor Angela Merkel a ”fascist”. Merkel told a summit on the weekend that the government of Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe was ”damaging the image of Africa”.
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Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene took over from Sanath Jayasuriya as his country’s leading run-maker as the hosts pulverised England in the second Test on Tuesday. Jayawardene made 167 not out and Michael Vandort hit 138 as Sri Lanka, replying to England’s first-innings total of 351, piled up 379-4 by stumps on the third day at the Sinhalese Sports Club.
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Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is ”dented” by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep space, space experts said on Monday. The data was gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey into the edge of the solar system when it crossed into a sweeping region called the termination shock.
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Pakistan grabbed two quick wickets to spark some life into the third and final Test on Tuesday after Misbah-ul-Haq’s unbeaten century brought the visitors 89 runs short of India’s first-innings total of 626. In-form Misbah struck 133 and was involved in two fruitful partnerships to help the visitors, resuming at 369-5, post 537.
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The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is quite unacceptable that Eskom does not give adequate warning to the public about its load shedding. "It is a crying shame that Eskom can paralyse the economic powerhouse of Africa — Gauteng province — every time it needs to do maintenance to power-generating equipment," the DA said on Tuesday.
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The majority of South Africans prefer to have African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma as their next national president, a recent TNS survey has found. Conducted on 3Â 000 adults between September and October, the survey saw Zuma emerge as frontrunner to succeed Thabo Mbeki when he steps down in 2009.
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The South African Airways (SAA) Open, formerly the South African Open, which tees off at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates in Paarl on Thursday, has attracted the strongest field in the history of the championship. The Open will include Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Retief Goosen, Tim Clark, US Open champion Angel Cabrera, veteran Greg Norman and Darren Clarke.
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/ 11 December 2007
An Israeli judge has ordered the country’s prison authority to pay an inmate over 000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches. Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokesperson for the Israel Prisons Service said.
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South African maize futures continued their rebound from a two-week slump as the market reversed a heavy selling trend, traders said on Tuesday. Prices have fallen since the Crop Estimates Committee unexpectedly hiked South Africa’s maize crop forecast for the 2006/07 season two weeks ago.
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A Kenyan pilot who survived more than a week eating leaves and drinking his urine after crashing in dense forest says he will continue flying, despite cheating death in his second accident in two years. Captain Solomon Nyanjui was feared dead after his helicopter went missing during a November 15 flight from Isiolo to Nairobi.