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Tens of thousands of Mexicans were trapped on rooftops and others clung to lampposts on Thursday after heavy rains flooded nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. At least 500 000 people were made homeless and one person was killed in the worst flooding the swampy state has seen in more than 50 years.
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/ 2 November 2007
When 152 dolphins were washed up on Iran’s southern coast mass suicide was blamed. Then suspicion was shifted to fishermen, who were said to have beaten the dolphins with grappling irons after they became entangled in fishing nets. But now a more familiar target has been accused: the US military.
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/ 2 November 2007
Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel is under police investigation for fraud and corruption, a media report said on Friday. Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s aborted probe into alleged criminal activity by police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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In a stirring tribute to former African National Congress president Oliver Tambo, ANC elder statesman Kader Asmal has delivered what reads as a veiled criticism of the leadership styles of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Asmal does not specifically name either man in his address, given at the launch of the book, Oliver Tambo Remembered, in Johannesburg.
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/ 2 November 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan fears that the politics of the African National Congress is being "Yankeefied" by a growing fixation on personalities rather than policies. And he blames the media for fuelling the process. "You have to get away from this personalised contest between [Jacob] Zuma and [Thabo] Mbeki," he said this week.
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/ 2 November 2007
United States house prices saw their biggest year-on-year fall in 16 years in August, a national index showed recently, with some economists predicting a record annual fall by the year end as turmoil continues in the housing market. The figures came as the former US Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan warned of further difficulties as builders struggled to sell their rising stock of housing.
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/ 2 November 2007
Just more than a week ago, about a thousand activists from the Christian right gathered in Washington to pass judgement on the Republican presidential candidates. At the Family Research Council’s (FRC) Values Voters summit, the values most cherished did not sit well with most Americans. Polls show that a consistent and substantial majority in the US are pro-choice, support stem cell research and oppose amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage.
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/ 2 November 2007
Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros has accused Cape Town mayor Helen Zille of ”not telling the truth” when she claimed that the Cape Town city council employed private investigators because the police had failed to probe controversial councillor Badih Chaaban. Said Petros in an interview: ”I called a press conference and played recorded evidence to show that the council employed the private investigating firm.”
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/ 2 November 2007
A veil of silence has been drawn over allegations that National Intelligence Agency boss Manala Manzini abused his wife. The Mail & Guardian reported last week that the ANC Women’s League was planning to discuss the issue with Manzini’s wife, Mavivi Mayakayaka-Manzini, deputy chairperson of the league, at a national working committee meeting.
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More than R7-billion later the Coega Development Corporation appears to be close to securing its first anchor tenant. The Mail & Guardian has learned that PetroSA chief executive Sipho Mkhize and department of minerals and energy director general Sandile Nogxina were set to visit the CDC late this week to discuss housing PetroSA’s mooted R39-billion crude-oil refinery.