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/ 12 October 2007
A bomb hidden in a cart of toys killed two children and wounded 17 others in a playground in northern Iraq on Friday, the first day of a national holiday to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The attack came the day after United States forces killed nine children and six women in an air strike north-west of Baghdad.
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/ 12 October 2007
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Democrat Al Gore and the United Nations climate panel on Friday intensified pressure on the former United States vice-president to launch a late bid for the presidency, but advisers said he is showing no signs of interest in the 2008 race.
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/ 12 October 2007
A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a subspecies experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Zhou Zhenglong took more than 70 snaps of the young tiger lying in the grass near a cliff.
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/ 12 October 2007
At least 23 people have died near Haiti’s capital following heavy rains that triggered floods, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said on Friday. Bien-Aime said 23 bodies were found on Thursday in Cabaret, north of the capital, after flood waters hit their hillside homes, sweeping them away in the current.
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/ 12 October 2007
Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s refusal to resign is a typical example of persons holding high office refusing to face the consequences of their actions, says Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille. ”By refusing to step down, contrary to the dictates of good governance, such senior office-bearers undermine our young democracy,” she said on Friday.
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/ 12 October 2007
Renaye D Menasseh spoke to Neil Gaiman, author of <i>Stardust</i>, now a major movie, that was released this week.
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/ 12 October 2007
Sixty-nine children in northern Nigeria contracted polio following a vaccination against the disease, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official in Nigeria said on Thursday. ”They were vulnerable [to this type of virus against] which they hadn’t been vaccinated enough. These are extremely rare cases, however,” the representative said.
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/ 12 October 2007
David Adjaye is using the influence of African art and craft to transform public buildings in the UK, writes Steve Rose.
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/ 12 October 2007
Three doors down from the old home of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, make-up artists apply the finishing touches to the presenters of Soweto TV as they prepare to host a daily debate. ”Welcome to Dlala Ngeringas [Fun Debate],” says Zuko Xabanisa as the cameras start rolling in the classroom-turned-studio.
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/ 12 October 2007
Former Chadian rebels waiting to join the national army have left their eastern bases to make for the Sudanese border, their former chief told international French radio station RFI. ”They are unhappy for several reasons … These are fairly complex problems, fairly serious. I understand them,” he said.