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/ 15 December 2007
Crops rot in the fields, farms and schools are abandoned, the black hulks of burned houses dot the landscape. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and many women raped. On a dirt road climbing up through green countryside, a heavily armed patrol of police troops stares nervously into the thick bush, wary of a militia ambush.
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/ 15 December 2007
South Africa’s World Cup winning fullback Percy Montgomery endured a painful European Cup introduction on Saturday when he limped out of Perpignan’s 23-6 win over London Irish. Montgomery suffered a dead-leg and was substituted on the hour mark but the Bok star insisted the injury was not connected to his knee problem.
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An atmosphere of excited anticipation took hold in a hot Polokwane, Limpopo province, on Saturday as thousands of delegates to the African National Congress’s (ANC) 52nd national conference arrived by bus, car and taxi. Buses from all over the country jostled for space with large pedestrian groups of ANC supporters from various provinces.
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/ 15 December 2007
Nearly 200 nations agreed at United Nations-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a reversal by the United States allowed a breakthrough. Washington said the agreement marked a new chapter in climate diplomacy after six years of disputes with major allies since President George Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol
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Briton Oliver Wilson joined South Africa’s James Kingston in the lead midway through the third round of the South African Open at Pearl Valley on Saturday. Kingston began the day on two-under-par and a solid outward nine of one-under-par 35 took him to three under.
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/ 15 December 2007
A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs left hospital smiling on Saturday, nearly six weeks after doctors removed her extra limbs in an operation. The team of around 30 medics took away what amounted to Lakshmi Tatma’s headless identical twin sister who was joined at the pelvis.
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/ 15 December 2007
A roadside bomb wounded at least 12 Somali soldiers in Baidoa and two people were killed in violence in Mogadishu on Saturday. The attacks in the capital and the south-central town hosting Somalia’s Parliament came after two days of fighting in Mogadishu between allied Somali-Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents.
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/ 15 December 2007
New Wallabies coach Robbie Deans says he arrives in the job with no ”historical baggage” to revive Australian rugby’s declining fortunes. The 48-year-old New Zealander, appointed on Friday for four years, is the first foreigner to coach the Wallabies, in a decision which has received almost universal acceptance within Australian rugby.
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/ 15 December 2007
President Robert Mugabe has suspended Zimbabwe’s attorney general while he is investigated on charges of abusing his office, state radio reported on Saturday. Sobusa Gula-Ndebele was last month briefly detained by police over allegations he promised to help a fugitive banker who had fled the country. Gula-Ndebele denies the accusations.
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Delegates to the African National Congress’s Polokwane conference, some of them weary after driving through the night from other parts of the country, began registering shortly after 10am on Saturday. Registration is taking place in a cavernous and hot aircraft hangar at the Gateway Airport north of Polokwane.