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/ 31 October 2007
United States warships are monitoring a Japanese tanker that was hijacked by pirates last weekend off the coast of Somalia. "The pirates are still in control of the ship. They are believed to be armed," Noel Choong, the head of the International Maritime Bureau’s Malaysia-based Piracy Reporting Centre, said.
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/ 31 October 2007
Russian prosecutors labelled as a ”terrorist” act a bomb explosion that killed eight and injured more than 20 passengers in the city of Togliatti on Wednesday. They opened a criminal investigation into the attack, Russian news agencies reported, three hours after the early-morning explosion.
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/ 31 October 2007
A Chinese mountaineering official will have the unenviable task of trying to prevent robberies on the roof of the world after a spate of equipment thefts, officials said on Wednesday. The official will be deployed at a breathtaking altitude of 6 600m after a record season this year saw 520 people reaching Mount Everest’s 8 848m summit but also complaints of stealing.
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/ 31 October 2007
A 42-year-old Mpumalanga man has developed breasts after he was enrolled in the government’s antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme, a media report said on Wednesday. The resident of Standerton’s Sakhile township said doctors and nurses at Standerton’s TB hospital had refused to listen to him.
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/ 31 October 2007
The JSE was lower at noon on Wednesday on pockets of profit taking amid caution ahead of the United States interest rate decision later in the day. At noon, the all-share index was off 0,49%. Resources fell 0,96%, the platinum mining index gave up 0,11% but the gold mining index was up 1,70%.
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/ 31 October 2007
The British and Saudi monarchs spoke warmly about each other’s countries at a formal banquet in London on Tuesday, but a state visit by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah drew protests and political controversy in Britain. Protesters calling for the reopening of a corruption inquiry into a multibillion-dollar arms deal jeered at Abdullah as he rode in a gilded carriage.
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/ 31 October 2007
Merrill Lynch parted company on Tuesdya with its chief executive, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street. After days of speculation, Merrill announced that O’Neal (56) had decided to retire with immediate effect.
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/ 31 October 2007
Zimbabwean authorities are to consider an application by a daily newspaper to resume publication four years after it was banned. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the Media and Information Commission would consider an application by the Daily News and its sister paper the Daily News on Sunday.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Tuesday it would approach the Cape High Court on Wednesday for an interdict to stop the government from implementing an abalone fishing ban that would impact on poor fishing communities.
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/ 31 October 2007
A magnitude 5,6 earthquake struck in a rural area about 15km north-east of San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s biggest city, on Tuesday night, causing minor damage. The earthquake was felt across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond just before 3.05am GMT on Wednesday.