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A tropical cyclone bearing down on the South Pacific island nation of Fiji has intensified into a category-four storm, the second most powerful cyclone, with destructive winds up to 200km/h. Cyclone Daman is expected to hit the nation’s second largest island Vanua Levu early on Saturday, officials said, as people began moving to higher ground.
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/ 7 December 2007
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu urged European Union (EU) leaders on Friday to confront Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on his human rights record, saying
their silence would be interpreted as condoning violations. ”I am deeply saddened by what has happened,” said Tutu.
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/ 7 December 2007
Kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers, eurocrats and countless diplomats from 80 countries will mingle on Friday evening at a sprawling exhibition centre in the east of Lisbon, at the biggest gathering of European and African leaders ever staged.
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/ 7 December 2007
It is not difficult to dislike Floyd Mayweather. This is the man who has turned the concept of bad-mouthing his opponents into an art form, wears more bling jewellery than the average New York pimp and throws bills into the crowds in Las Vegas nightclubs.
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Aides of Jacob Zuma have drawn up contingency plans to try to force his rival President Thabo Mbeki out of office early, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Friday. If Zuma was elected party leader at the African National Congress’s five-yearly conference, he would insist on being privy to big government decisions.
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/ 7 December 2007
Police are investigating charges of corruption and obstruction of justice against a senior Cape Town policeman involved in Tony Yengeni’s alleged drunk-driving saga. Provincial police spokesperson Novel Potelwa said that Goodwood station commissioner, Senior Superintendent Siphiwe Hewana, had also been suspended without pay, and faced an internal disciplinary hearing.
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/ 7 December 2007
The teenage gunman who shot dead eight people at a Nebraska shopping mall before turning the gun on himself had lost his job at McDonald’s hours earlier after being accused of stealing from the till. Robert Hawkins (19) emerged on Thursday as a high school dropout who had spent four years in foster care.
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/ 7 December 2007
A large oil tanker was gushing thousands of tonnes of oil off South Korea’s west coast after being hit a barge, South Korea’s maritime ministry said on Friday. The Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit was struck while at anchor off Daesan port in the Taean region and the ministry said it had already leaked about 10 800 tonnes of crude oil into the sea.
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/ 7 December 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal health department on Thursday evening denied reports that a sixth baby had died from the klebsiella at Durban’s Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital. Department spokesperson Leon Mbangwa said a sixth baby had indeed died, but not from the klebsiella which it had earlier contracted.
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/ 7 December 2007
The CIA destroyed video evidence of the coercive interrogation of al-Qaeda operatives held under its secret rendition programme in order to shield agents from prosecution, it was revealed on Thursday. The decision to destroy two videotapes documenting the use of waterboarding against Abu Zubaydah and another high-value al-Qaeda detainee was made in November 2005.