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/ 14 December 2007
A weaker bank sector forced a positive JSE to pull back into the red by midday on Friday, leaving the all-share index 0,14% lower at noon. The JSE’s bank index was down 1,38% at midday as local and international traders questioned whether the move by the central banks to inject liquidity into financial markets was enough to settle global credit concerns.
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/ 14 December 2007
A Dutch couple living in Hong Kong this week found themselves at the centre of an international controversy after they gave up their daughter for adoption seven years after they adopted her themselves. Raymond Poeteray (55) who has worked as a Dutch diplomat for more than 20 years, and his wife, Meta, adopted Jade, an ethnic Korean girl, when she was four months old.
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/ 14 December 2007
Television channel e.tv has called on the regulator to include it in any must-carry policy if it forces new pay-television providers to air SABC3 on their platforms. The South African Broadcasting Corporation is pushing for the regulation, which will force all pay television providers to carry its the SABC’s channels for a fee.
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/ 14 December 2007
Tom Shaheen, one of Hillary Clinton’s senior advisers, was forced to resign on Thursday, 24 hours after raising the drug-taking past of her main rival, Barack Obama. Although the Clinton campaign distanced itself from Shaheen’s remarks, it has been engaged in a negative campaign against Obama for the last week.
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/ 14 December 2007
Israel must ease restrictions on the Palestinians if efforts led by Tony Blair to boost the Palestinian economy are to be successful, the World Bank and Oxfam said on Thursday. Next Monday Blair, representing the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers, is to chair a conference in Paris of 90 countries and organisations.
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/ 14 December 2007
The European Union’s biggest four countries are pushing to impose and oversee independence in Kosovo without a fresh United Nations mandate, risking a showdown with a resurgent Russia and fierce resistance from Serbia, which vows no surrender of Kosovo.
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/ 14 December 2007
Zimbabwean hotels that do not implement the industry’s star-rating system will not be given contracts during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a media report said on Friday. Chief executive of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority Karikoga Kaseke said that only 30% of hotels in the country had registered for star-ratings to date.
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/ 14 December 2007
Bets to win, in sports such as tennis and snooker, imply a bet on the opposite side losing. Horse racing, for example, has been plagued with allegations of rigging. Mark Johnston, classic-winning trainer, says betting exchanges do corrupt sport, while Mark Davies, Betfair managing director, disagrees.
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/ 14 December 2007
Upset that a stray rabid dog was fleeing with a duck from his compound, a man in southern India caught the animal, wrestled with it and bit it hard in the throat before it was beaten to death, a newspaper said. A report in the Hindustan Times on Friday said that the dog had become a menace to villagers in Pakakkadavu, in the Kollam district of Kerala state.
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/ 14 December 2007
For the first time in more than 40 years a United States state is to abolish the death penalty. A 44-36 vote in the New Jersey legislature to abolish executions in the state on Thursday followed approval for the measure in the state senate on Monday.