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/ 13 October 2007
A United States appellate court on Friday allowed claims brought by victims of apartheid against dozens of major companies to go forward, saying a lower court erred in ruling it did not have jurisdiction over the matter. The plaintiffs include South Africa’s non-profit Khulumani Support Group.
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/ 13 October 2007
Mexican police have arrested a suspected cannibal after finding the severed limbs of his fiancée in the fridge and a pot of meat boiling on the stove, prosecutors said on Friday. The remains of a meat dish were also found on a plate on the dining table in the Mexico City apartment of Jose Luis Calva Zepeda (40).
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/ 13 October 2007
A Ghanaian conservation research centre will assist a Canadian company in harvesting underwater trees in one of the world’s largest tropical hardwood forests. Ghana’s Volta Lake is a reservoir that was created as part of a hydroelectric project more than 40 years ago.
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/ 13 October 2007
For years, former United States vice-president Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls ”a planetary emergency”.
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/ 13 October 2007
Australian fans starved of horse racing because of an outbreak of equine influenza received bizarre relief when camels took to the track in Sydney. The strictly no-betting, amateur-jockey race meet took place on Friday night at Harold Park Paceway, which is among tracks where racing has been suspended during the disease outbreak.
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/ 13 October 2007
The United States fears that attacks in Darfur and an impasse in implementation of a peace agreement in southern Sudan threaten peace efforts throughout the embattled North African country. The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement accused the central government on Thursday of failing to abide by the peace agreement.
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/ 13 October 2007
At least 45 people have died in the poverty-stricken island of Haiti as homes were swept away in floods triggered by heavy rain, the Interior Ministry said Friday. Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said 23 bodies had been found on Thursday in Cabaret, just north of the capital, and 12 were missing.
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/ 13 October 2007
Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic emails have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law, United States Department of Justice officials said. Prosecutors said that the two men started their spamming business four years ago.
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/ 13 October 2007
The Warriors’ Lonwabo Tsotsobe finished with career-best figures of seven wickets for 39 runs from 21 overs in their SuperSport Series match against the Lions at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Friday. In Benoni, the Cobras were playing the Titans and in Durban it was the Eagles and the Dolphins.
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/ 13 October 2007
Ernie Els of South Africa remained on course for a seventh world match-play championship, with a six and five victory over Andres Romero of Argentina at Wentworth that booked a semifinal confrontation on Saturday with Henrik Stenson of Sweden. ”I played well when I needed to,” Els said.