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/ 23 September 2007
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, the world’s fastest 800m runner of 2007, ended the year’s international season on a satisfactory note when he finished second in a tactical race at the fifth IAAF/VTB Bank Athletics World Final in Stuttgart on Saturday. Former Kenyan Youssef Saad Kamel of Bahrain won in a time of 1:45,61.
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/ 23 September 2007
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met ministers from world powers and neighbouring countries on Saturday after telling the United Nations secretary general he could guarantee security for a broader UN role in Iraq. Ministers from Iraq, its neighbours and world powers met at UN headquarters.
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/ 23 September 2007
More than 100 Bangladeshi fishermen were missing after at least 15 fishing boats sank in a storm in the Bay of Bengal, witnesses and officials said on Sunday. The Chittagong port authority issued an international maritime alert advising all ships and fishing boats to remain in shelters until further notice.
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/ 23 September 2007
Japan’s ruling party on Sunday picked Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbours, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive the party’s fortunes and fill a political vacuum. Fukuda will be chosen as prime minister on Tuesday by virtue of the ruling camp’s huge majority in Parliament’s Lower House.
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/ 23 September 2007
The supervisor of a major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa voiced ”huge disappointment” on Saturday after testing was halted in the wake of poor results from sister trials in Australia and the United States. US pharmaceutical giant Merck announced on Friday that it had halted the trials of its V520 vaccine.
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/ 23 September 2007
A school pupil was stabbed and killed after an argument with another pupil during an end-of-term outing in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday. Pupils from the Thembelihle High School had gathered at Kings Beach to celebrate the end of the school term on Friday when an argument broke out.
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/ 23 September 2007
Madagascans vote on Sunday for the Indian Ocean island’s Parliament, with President Marc Ravalomanana’s party tipped to continue its domination of the Assembly. Ravalomanana dissolved Parliament in July, saying it no longer reflected national representation after a new Constitution was passed in April.
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/ 23 September 2007
A seat belt saved the life of a prospective groom who lost control of his Jeep on the way back from his stag party in Johannesburg in the early hours of Sunday, said ER24. Spokesperson Riana Beech said the vehicle rolled several times on the N1 south, just after the Beyers Naude off-ramp, at about 3am.
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/ 23 September 2007
Hundreds of children in the Northern Cape dustbowl town of De Aar have been diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome, giving the town the unenviable distinction of the world’s highest reported incidence of the condition. Unfortunately, alcohol’s grip on the community will be hard to loosen.
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/ 23 September 2007
Disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori arrived in Peru for the first time in seven years under armed guard on Saturday — a day after Chile’s Supreme Court authorised his extradition — to face charges of abusing human rights and stealing public money during his decade-long rule in the 1990s.