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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took office as Argentina’s first elected female president on Monday in a rare husband-to-wife handover Argentines hope will sustain an historic economic boom. Fernandez, a former first lady and senator, began a four-year term promising to continue the policies of her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner.
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/ 11 December 2007
Prison officials denied whistle-blowing Pollsmoor doctor, Paul Theron, entry to the prison hospital when he reported for duty on Tuesday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. The Department of Health had suspended him after Theron had complained about poor conditions at the prison hospital.
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/ 11 December 2007
It’s crunch time in the Champions League on Wednesday as four teams attempt to secure the two remaining tickets into the knockout stage of Europe’s top club competition. With Barcelona already qualified and German champions Stuttgart out of contention, Rangers and Lyon are left to scrape it out at Ibrox for second place.
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/ 11 December 2007
Christmas came early on Monday for a group of South African soldiers deployed as part of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Father Christmas came in the guise of Lieutenant General Rinus van Rensburg, chief of defence corporate staff, and a host of other high ranking South African National Defence Force officers.
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/ 11 December 2007
British band Led Zeppelin blasted their way through more than two hours of high-octane rock’n’roll on Monday, turning back time on a night of passion and nostalgia. The quartet had a crowd of around 20 000 at London’s 02 Arena calling for more at the end of 16 tracks ranging from their most famous numbers to less familiar fare.
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/ 11 December 2007
With his bedouin tent installed in a garden adjoining the Elysée palace, a white limousine to drive him round Paris and a welcome from the French republican guard, Moammar Gadaffi, on Monday took another diplomatic step in from the cold.
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/ 11 December 2007
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron has become the latest Hollywood celebrity to suffer a burglary following a break-in at the South African star’s home last week, police confirmed on Monday. The 32-year-old’s house, reportedly in the exclusive Hollywood Hills, was broken into between Thursday and Saturday.
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The European Union took a veiled swipe at the United States at climate talks in Bali on Tuesday over Washington’s efforts to remove 2020 emissions guidelines for rich nations from the draft text. The row has overshadowed a separate finance ministers meeting in Bali and 10th anniversary celebrations for the Kyoto Protocol.
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/ 11 December 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe claimed that his country had ”defeated the British” after he attended an Europe Union-Africa summit in Lisbon at the weekend, state media reported on Tuesday. ”We defeated the British, we were the victors over the British,” the state-run Herald quoted Mugabe as saying.
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The African National Congress (ANC) said on Monday it had suspended an activist for launching a legal battle to postpone the party’s leadership conference. Votani Majola has asked the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal to grant his request to have the ANC’s December 16 to 20 congress delayed for six months.