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/ 11 October 2007
Renegade former general Laurent Nkunda late on Wednesday called for a truce in his battle with the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo after at least 85 rebels died in four days of heavy clashes. Nkunda also offered to send 500 of his men to a transit camp pending their integration into the regular forces.
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/ 11 October 2007
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Argentina and South Africa have pumped up the volume in a war of words ahead of their World Cup semifinal on Sunday by exchanging mutual insults. Pumas full-back Ignacio Corleto blasted the 1995 champions as ”arrogant” while Springboks scrumhalf Fourie du Preez claimed opposite number Agustin Pichot was ”irritating”.
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/ 11 October 2007
Boeing ran into turbulence on its highly touted 787 Dreamliner programme, announcing a six-month delay for the new jet seen as the future profit driver for the United States aviation giant. Boeing said the first deliveries will not come until December 2008.
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/ 11 October 2007
Every week for the past month, the United States’s all-news cable channels have been telling the same story about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. The headline along the bottom of the screen says something like ”Obama on the ropes”; above, the talking heads agree that his campaign remains stuck in neutral.
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/ 11 October 2007
Aussie spin king Shane Warne is seen being smashed for a six by South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje as the crowd roars its approval at a rising star who would later shame the nation and the game. Five years after his death in a plane crash, a new biopic on Cronje, which has begun filming, will likely reignite the debate over the man who was once revered as a national hero but later became synonymous with the murky world of match-fixing.
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/ 10 October 2007
Using words to convey the experience of visiting a photo exhibition means converting the event into a different currency of communication. But the coinage of text can’t recreate the imagery, or evoke the space of a gallery. What it can do is dig into the meaning of the Then & Now exhibition, which opened in Grahamstown last month.
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/ 10 October 2007
Controversial Soweto principal Jackie Maarohanye is to testify in the Protea Magistrate’s Court when she returns to the dock on a kidnapping charge next month. Maarohanye (49), Ronnie Nyakale (34) and Mpho Makhate (21) are facing charges of assaulting and kidnapping a former Ithuteng Trust student, Siphiwe Ncugothu, on February 21 2006.
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/ 10 October 2007
Fighting has erupted between the only Darfur rebel group to have signed a 2006 peace accord and Sudanese troops, the United Nations said on Wednesday after the rebels accused Khartoum of attacking a town the rebels control. The United Nations said that exchanges of fire took place on between the Sudan Liberation Army faction of Minni Minawi and the Sudanese army.
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/ 10 October 2007
The exodus of police officers out of the Northern Cape must be addressed, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) in the province said on Wednesday. Popcru provincial secretary Glisson Itebogeng said union members had expressed their dismay and concern over the ”massive transfer of members” who leave the province after being employed or promoted.
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/ 10 October 2007
About 15 000 wildebeest have drowned in the Mara River during their annual migration between Tanzania and Kenya, shocking tourists and baffling conservationists, officials said on Wednesday. The mass death of the animals was the first of its kind in recent memory, officials said.