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/ 18 November 2007
The 11th edition of the Pick ‘n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge delivered the expected drama when Neotel’s Nolan Hoffman crossed the line first but was immediately demoted to 10th position after being motor-paced back to the peloton following a tyre puncture with 5km to go.
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/ 18 November 2007
Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez won the UBS Hong Kong Open in a thrilling finish Sunday, firing a final round of 67 to push Sweden’s Robert Karlsson into a share of second place. Jimenez emerged victorious after Karlsson made a disastrous double bogey on the final hole which saw him finally surrender the lead in the ,25-million tournament.
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/ 18 November 2007
Fighting between rival Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in north-western Pakistan’s troubled tribal belt has claimed 70 lives, security officials and state media reported Sunday. State television said another 150 people were injured as heavily armed tribesmen clashed in the Kurram district bordering Afghanistan.
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/ 18 November 2007
Five people have died in a helicopter crash in Angola, BHP Billiton announced on Saturday. The crash occurred late on Friday, about 80km from the Alto Cuilo Camp diamond exploration facility in north eastern Angola, the company said in a statement.
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/ 18 November 2007
Robert Mugabe’s vice-president has endorsed the veteran Zimbabwean leader’s candidature for presidential elections next year and has suggested he should even rule until he dies, a report said on Sunday. Joseph Msika said no-one was so far challenging Mugabe’s bid to seek a sixth consecutive term and urged supporters to endorse him at a ruling party congress.
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/ 18 November 2007
”Kill the cable, kill the cable,” shouted the security guard as he burst through the double doors into the media room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Riyadh, followed by Saudi police. It was too late. A private meeting of Opec leaders, gathered this weekend in Riyadh for the cartel’s third meeting in its 47-year history, had just been broadcast to the world’s media.
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/ 18 November 2007
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has slammed the church for being ”obsessed” with homosexuality, in a BBC radio programme to be broadcast
Tuesday. The South African 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, 76, said he felt ashamed of his church for its attitude towards gays.
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/ 18 November 2007
The bruises suffered by Hassan Tariq, a senior barrister in Sindh province, extend in large purple patches from his hip to his rib cage. According to his own account, he was beaten with ”a hard object” and kicked and punched by officers for refusing to chant slogans in favour of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.
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/ 18 November 2007
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Former president Nelson Mandela has pulled a South African Broadcasting Corporation advert in which he appears with President Thabo Mbeki, fearing that he would be seen to be endorsing Mbeki in the ANC’s succession battle, a media report said on Sunday.
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/ 18 November 2007
It is 50 years since Tony Ciarfello and his friends used the yard of a depleted uranium weapons factory as their playground in Colonie, a suburb of Albany in upstate New York state. ”There wasn’t no fence at the back of the plant,” remembers Ciarfello.