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Shahid Afridi smashed 22 off seven balls and then grabbed 4-19 as Pakistan brushed aside Scotland by 51 runs in the Twenty20 World Championship in Durban on Wednesday. The pugnacious all-rounder ensured his team faced no hiccups after Craig Wright had taken three wickets to restrict Pakistan to 171-9 at the Kingsmead.
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Thanks to floor-crossing, the African National Congress (ANC) has at last secured a clear two-thirds majority in the Morkel family. The decisive moment came on Wednesday when the last of the Morkel brothers, Craig, joined the party. But the patriarch, former premier Gerald Morkel, has no intention of following in his sons’ footsteps.
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Southern Africa urgently needs to invest in its energy sector to be able to provide its growing populations with electricity and the means for economic development, a senior Namibian energy official said on Wednesday. ”Southern Africa is running dry,” Siseho Simasiku, the head of Namibia’s Electricity Control Board, said.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has condemned the absence of ”working-class representatives” on the final list of names for the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board approved by the National Assembly’s communications committee.
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Two more soldiers have died in Lebanon’s military operations against the Fatah al-Islam militia, bringing the death toll to 165 troops, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”One soldier died from wounds on Monday, while another one was killed by a landmine on Tuesday,” he said.
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A powerful earthquake measuring 8,2 struck Indonesia’s Sumatra region on Wednesday, followed by a 6,6-magnitude later in the day, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean and sparking panic in coastal areas across South-East Asia and at least one death.
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Foot-and-mouth disease has struck a new cattle farm in southern England, the government said on Wednesday, prompting the European Union to suspend a decision to lift its ban on British meat exports. The Agriculture Ministry said a surveillance zone of more than 10km had been placed around the farm in Egham, Surrey, about 50km from the scene of the last confirmed outbreak.
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Pakistani helicopter gunships and artillery pounded pro-Taliban militant hide-outs in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing up to 40 insurgents, the army said on Wednesday. Hours earlier, dozens of Islamist fighters attacked a check post and kidnapped 12 troops a few kilometres away in the country’s north-west.
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Somali opposition figures meeting in Eritrea united to form a new ”liberation” movement on Wednesday to seek a military or diplomatic solution to conflict in their homeland, a spokesperson said. The main aim of the organisation, called the Alliance for the Liberation of Somalia, is to secure the exit of Ethiopian troops who are backing the interim government in Somalia.
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Khutsong has not been declared a national disaster area, the Ministry of Provincial and Local Government said on Wednesday. Spokesperson for the ministry, Thokozani Mtshali, said a North West portfolio committee presented a report to the provincial legislature on Tuesday but this did not constitute a declaration.