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Democratic governments must condemn Eritrea for suppressing ”all freedoms”, Reporters sans Frontières said Monday, a day before the sixth anniversary of a crackdown that throttled free media. The Paris-based RSF called on foreign powers to summon Eritrean ambassadors in their countries to condemn the situation in the tiny Red Sea state.
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/ 17 September 2007
United Sates mob drama The Sopranos said its final farewells when it picked up the top award at the 59th annual Emmy awards in Los Angeles on Sunday at television’s equivalent of the Oscars. The groundbreaking HBO series, which ended in June after an eight-year run, took home the awards for outstanding drama, best writing and directing.
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/ 17 September 2007
The Zimbabwe government’s threat to take over companies defying controversial price controls is not a joke, Industry Minister Obert Mpofu was quoted as saying on Monday. Obert Mpofu told the ruling Zanu-PF party members meeting at the weekend in western Zimbabwe that the government had already started identifying companies it plans to take over.
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/ 17 September 2007
Thousands of customers queued to withdraw savings from embattled British bank Northern Rock on Monday and its shares plunged again, heightening pressure for a sale of the business or its assets. Britain’s fifth-biggest mortgage lender said there was no need for investors or customers to panic
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/ 17 September 2007
A United States arbitration panel has ended deliberations on embattled 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis’s doping case and will reveal its ruling in the next seven days, the American’s lawyer said on Monday. Landis tested positive for the banned male sex hormone testosterone but has maintained his innocence.
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A few months ago Fourie du Preez could have been forgiven for having given up hope of playing in the World Cup. How England must have wished that had been the case as he once again showed why he is regarded as the best scrumhalf in world rugby.
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/ 17 September 2007
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe plans to build a Z-trillion (US,3-billion) games village in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, reports last week. The games village, to be funded by private developers, will be built on a 100ha plot near the southern city of Masvingo on the shores of scenic Lake Mutirikwi, the official Sunday Mail newspaper said.
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/ 17 September 2007
The JSE was sharply lower at midday on Monday as rekindled credit fears continued to spill over on to world markets. The JSE opened in negative territory and weakened further during the morning session on last week’s news that the United Kingdom’s fifth largest mortgage lender, Northern Rock, used the Bank of England as a lender of last resort.
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/ 17 September 2007
It has been billed as a Lord of the Flies for the reality TV generation. And while that description may be something of a stretch, Kid Nation, the latest reality TV show to grace United States televisions, does at least share something with William Golding’s 1954 classic: controversy.
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/ 17 September 2007
A European Union court upheld most of a landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against Microsoft on Monday in a crucial victory for the European competition regulator against the United States software giant. The EU’s Court of First Instance dismissed Microsoft’s appeal on all substantive points.