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A cyclone killed more than 250 people in Bangladesh, triggering a 5m-high water surge that devastated three coastal towns with a combined population of 700Â 000, officials said on Friday. ”The death count is rising fast as we get more information from the affected districts,” an official at the Food and Disaster Ministry said.
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/ 16 November 2007
Police investigating the beheading of a seven-year-old KwaZulu-Natal boy believe a witchdoctor syndicate could have been involved in the crime, KwaDabeka police said on Friday. Vuyani Ngqulunga went missing on November 1 and his body was found a day later in Clermont. His head and testicles were missing.
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/ 16 November 2007
A man wearing a ski mask used a stapler to hold up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store — and briefly got away with , authorities said. Gerald Rocchi (32) was arrested shortly after he flashed a chrome-plated stapler at an employee of the Ice Cream Shop in Ashland on Tuesday and demanded money, police said.
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/ 16 November 2007
It was Sunday night in Jozi in the type of pub in which the ”No Smoking” signs seem to turn a deeper shade of mustard gas with each devious gentle expulsion of spent tobacco. The half-price pizza special was long over. Worse, the kitchen was closed. So the hungry worked on their thirst instead.
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/ 16 November 2007
Schabir Shaik is back in hospital after suffering a mild stroke last week, the Department of Correctional services said on Thursday. Spokesperson Manelisi Wolela said Shaik had been transferred from prison to the Inkosi Albert Luthuli hospital in Durban.
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/ 16 November 2007
Hillary Clinton regained her frontrunner status in the Democratic race during a two-hour debate in Las Vegas on Friday marked by renewed personal squabbling. Clinton needed a good performance to make up the ground she lost in the last debate on October 30 when her main rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, ganged up on her.
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/ 16 November 2007
Percy Zvomuya assesses Yvette Christiansë’s ‘slave novel’ <i>Unconfessed</i> and speaks to the author about it.
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<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>Party intellectual Pallo Jordan has made his most public call yet on both President Thabo Mbeki and the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma not to contest the top job. He says the party needs fresh minds to lead it in the 21st century. Jordan argued that Mbeki has effectively been leader of the movement and the government for 15 years.
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/ 16 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>African National Congress (ANC) leaders will not agree to a compromise candidate in the party’s presidential race because this could spark a rebellion among members, ANC national chairperson Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota said this week. Lekota also accused Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi of knowing nothing about the workings of the ANC.