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/ 10 December 2007
More than 50 people were missing after an immigrant boat sank off Morocco over the weekend, authorities said on Monday. Officials in the town of Dakhla, on the coast off the Western Sahara, said the boat was heading for the Spanish Canary Islands from Mauritania when it sank on Saturday 28 nautical miles (more than 50km) offshore.
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/ 10 December 2007
British rockers Led Zeppelin reunite on Monday to headline a tribute concert to late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun in what has been billed as one of the biggest gigs in years. The three surviving members of the hugely successful 1970s group have rarely performed together since splitting in 1980.
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/ 10 December 2007
Climate campaigner Al Gore collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and said it was time to stop waging war on the Earth and make peace with the planet. The former United States vice-president shared the 2007 peace prize with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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/ 10 December 2007
Virtually every sector in South Africa that relies on skilled labour is facing a skills shortage, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Monday. ”There is clearly a skills crisis,” said SAIRR’s Marius Roodt, who released a report last week that indicated the country was facing a ”dire” skills crisis.
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/ 10 December 2007
Megawatt Park was without megawatts on Monday when Eskom load-shedded itself. The power company could not even access its own website to check which areas were without electricity — the server was down, said an official who asked not want to be named.
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/ 10 December 2007
Michael Vandort scored an unbeaten 50 as Sri Lanka shook off a poor start to close on 105-2, 246 runs behind England, on the second day of the second Test on Monday. England were earlier bowled out for 351 after resuming on 258-5, with Matt Prior hitting 79 and Muttiah Muralitharan claiming his 62nd five-wicket haul in Tests.
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/ 10 December 2007
Pakistan’s new crisis men Misbah-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal defied India in an unbroken sixth-wicket stand after Younis Khan’s masterly 80 in the third and final Test on Monday. In-form Misbah struck a controlled 54 and Akmal a gritty 32 as the visitors, searching for a series-levelling victory, ended day three on 369-5.
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/ 10 December 2007
An elderly British tourist found dead after a fire on Table Mountain could have died of a heart attack, the doctor who did the post-mortem examination conceded on Monday at the trial of British national Anthony Cooper, who is alleged to have started the fire in January last year by tossing a burning cigarette butt on to dry grass.
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/ 10 December 2007
Kenya’s main opposition party accused the government on Monday of bribing voters and risking regional insecurity by trying to rig polls due on December 27. ”A rigged electoral process will cause such chaos and political instability in Kenya, not only here but in the entire East Africa region,” presidential challenger Raila Odinga said.
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/ 10 December 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, together with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and Graça Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on Monday launched a human rights campaign marking the 60th year since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.