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/ 6 November 2007
African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota has rejected allegations by Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille that the ANC and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund benefited inappropriately from the arms deal. De Lille on Tuesday said such allegations had been speculation up until now.
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/ 6 November 2007
South African medical authorities need to start thinking about tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/Aids as a single epidemic, rather than treating them separately, a TB expert said on Tuesday at a media briefing ahead of a major international conference on lung health, which begins in Cape Town on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2007
Pakistan’s opposition grappled for a united response on Tuesday to President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule, leaving lawyers to protest alone for a second day and bear the brunt of a police crackdown. Ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said ”the people should rise up and restore the Constitution”.
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/ 6 November 2007
Inequality in South Africa has increased since 1996, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Tuesday. Figures from the institute’s latest South Africa Survey indicate that the country’s inequality has increased in all the country’s race groups with the exception of whites.
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/ 6 November 2007
An application for the mayor of the Lekwa municipality to repair a Great Trek memorial that had allegedly been damaged by the municipality was postponed in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. The hearing, due to start on Tuesday, was set down to begin on May 22 and 23 next year.
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/ 6 November 2007
Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the United States government burned many of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment. But now scientists and other believers are working to advance the psychiatrist’s work.
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/ 6 November 2007
Famous dogs including Lassie and Oscar-winning animated pooch Gromit were inducted into the world’s first canine Walk of Fame in London on Monday, as the four-legged version of the Hollywood pantheon was unveiled. Other top hounds included Fang from the <i>Harry Potter</i> films.
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/ 6 November 2007
Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in the British Parliament on Tuesday may have been routine, but at least nobody was bored to death. That would have been against the law. Dying in Parliament is an offence — and by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4Â 000 people.
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/ 6 November 2007
Rescue officials were searching for more than a dozen missing people on Tuesday after a landslide slammed into a rain-swollen river, wiping out a tiny hamlet in southern Mexico. At least 16 people were reported missing in the village.
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/ 6 November 2007
Hundreds of families were on Tuesday fleeing their homes in Somalia’s southern region of Lower Shabelle, where floods swept villages and destroyed crops, residents and witnesses said. Local elder Abdi Omar Hirabe said floods engulfed the villages of War Gedow, Malable and Dolo Dhere.