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/ 22 September 2007
A prison clerk in Hong Kong who dated inmates’ girlfriends by hacking into a computer to get their phone numbers has been sentenced to community service, a news report said on Saturday. Ng King-tong (30) used the computer system at the Lai Chi Kok jail to track down pretty female visitors and phone them for dates.
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/ 22 September 2007
Sweden and Germany rallied on Friday to ensure their Davis Cup semifinal matches will be decided on the final day. Thomas Johansson beat James Blake to put Sweden even at 1-1 in their best-of-five series against the visiting United States, and Philipp Kohlschreiber did the same for Germany by defeating fourth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko.
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/ 22 September 2007
A new era without Jose Mourinho gets under way at Old Trafford for Chelsea on Sunday, as they play their first English Premiership match under new manager Avram Grant against Manchester United. Mourinho’s time at the Stamford Bridge helm came to an end in the build-up to their visit to the current champions.
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/ 22 September 2007
Ethiopia is showing its citizens there is more to coffee than just its robust, mild or medium taste. A precedent-setting deal with coffee giant Starbucks this year was the most renowned Addis Ababa has had in a push to promote the names of its coffee-growing regions worldwide.
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/ 22 September 2007
A small amount of extra peacekeeping troops for Sudan’s troubled Darfur region could be in place by October, officials said on Friday after a high-level meeting on Darfur at the United Nations. Nigeria and Rwanda are considering sending ”a few battalions” to the region next month, according to Britain’s secretary of state for Africa.
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/ 22 September 2007
Aid agencies have appealed for millions of dollars to help more than one million Africans affected by deadly floods that have swept across the continent. The floods have killed at least 200 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in 17 countries since the summer, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Uganda and Kenya.
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/ 22 September 2007
Nine cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in the West Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that is at the epicentre of an outbreak that has killed at least 174 people, a World Health Organisation official said on Friday. Symptoms of the epidemic were first seen on April 27.
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/ 22 September 2007
Though they came from far-flung places, the thousands of protesters who assembled in Jena, Louisiana, on Friday had this in common: they all wore black, and most were black. They had descended on this tiny Southern town to show their anger for the injustice they believed had taken place here.
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/ 22 September 2007
The Dutch government rejected mounting calls for a referendum on Europe’s new reform treaty on Friday night, two years after Dutch voters killed off the European constitution in a referendum that stunned the European Union. Despite Friday’s decision in The Hague, the Dutch coalition is split.
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/ 22 September 2007
The Polish president has launched an advertising campaign to lure home an estimated two million young people who have emigrated abroad. Focusing mainly on Britain where an estimated 600 000 Poles work, President Lech Kaczynski said he wants to attract as many of his compatriots as possible.