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Britain has warned fellow European Union nations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not attend a planned Europe-Africa summit if Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe does, diplomatic sources said on Saturday. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made London’s position clear on Friday during an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers
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/ 8 September 2007
A head-on collision between a truck and a bus killed 13 people and seriously injured four others in the Eastern Cape on Saturday. Emergency workers were trying to extract two other passengers from the wreckage while two men and two women had been taken to hospital.
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/ 8 September 2007
China blasted planned meetings between Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian and African allies this weekend. Chen was scheduled on Sunday to meet leaders from Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Malawi, São Tomé and PrÃncipe, and Swaziland — an apparent attempt to cut into rival China’s growing influence in the region.
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/ 8 September 2007
The Central African Republic and São Tomé and PrÃncipe have pulled out of the 2010 World Cup, precipitating a change in the first phase of the African qualifiers. Fida said in a statement it had changed the draw for the opening round of African qualifying matches, in which the 10 lowest ranked teams had been paired.
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An unforgiving French media gave no quarter in its appraisal of a ”catastrophic” France team after the World Cup hosts’ shock defeat to Argentina here on Friday. France lost the tournament’s opening match 17-12 to the Pumas — a result which has severely dented their chances of even reaching the final four of the competition.
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/ 8 September 2007
A car bomb killed 10 people in eastern Algeria on Saturday, a security source said. The source gave no further details of the bomb attack in Dellys town, 100km east of Algiers. The explosion happened two days after a suicide bomb attack in the town of Batna that killed at least 20 people, including the attacker.
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/ 8 September 2007
Anyone with an intimate knowledge of the marauding packs of Western Province and the Sharks will know why groundsman Julian Barnard said on Friday his staff would be working all night in order to get the Newlands Stadium pitch into shape for Bafana Bafana’s African Nations Cup qualifying game against Zambia.
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/ 8 September 2007
Boland Kavaliers scored a nail biting 24-20 win over the Valke in a hard fought Currie Cup rugby match on Friday afternoon, after trailing 20-19 at halftime. The victory was Boland’s third of the season, while the East Randers are still without a win.
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/ 8 September 2007
The search for United States adventurer Steve Fossett, missing in the rugged Nevada desert for five days, was expanded again on Friday. Captain April Conway, spokesperson for the Nevada Air National Guard, told reporters the air search had been extended to 44 000 square kilometres.
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Separated conjoined twins Danielle and Danika Lowton remained in a stable condition on Saturday having survived a successful 16-hour operation to separate them. Arwyp Medical Centre Private Hospital spokesperson Henry du Plooy said the twins were being monitored constantly.