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The toll from an earthquake on Indonesia’s Sumatra island this week has risen to 21 dead and 88 injured, while more than 13 000 homes were destroyed or damaged, officials said on Saturday. The 8,4-magnitude quake, which struck off the coast of western Sumatra on Wednesday evening, has been followed by at least 40 big aftershocks.
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A report in the Saturday Star that tens of millions of rands had been sourced from the Presidency and pumped into the now banned drug Virodene was based on innuendo, the Presidency said on Saturday. Mukoni Ratshitanga, spokesperson for the Presidency, said the story was devoid of concrete facts.
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Two-time champions Australia beat Wales 32-20 in a bruising World Cup clash at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday to virtually make sure of avoiding South Africa in the last eight. The Wallabies, who had two players sin-binned late in the game, scored four tries but were pushed all the way by a spirited home side who had been on the ropes at 25-3 down at the break.
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Nearly 13,5-million people have been marooned or displaced by floods in India and Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday. The flooding in South Asia caused by the June-to-September monsoon has been described as the worst in decades, with more than 2Â 200 people killed by floods and rains in India since it started.
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Advertisers have asked that magazine publisher Media24 pay back the full amount for adverts placed in titles that were found to have inflated circulation figures, the Weekender reported on Saturday. Michelle Brook, media director at OMD Media Direction, is quoted in the report as saying that her company had requested ”full compensation” for adverts paid for in some titles.
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The movement of radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday it would withdraw from the Shi’ite bloc that leads the Iraqi government, in a new blow to the faltering political process. ”The Sadr bloc will hold a press conference in Najaf this evening [Saturday] where it will announce its decision to withdraw from the Shi’ite alliance,” Sadr spokesperson Saleh al-Obeidi said.
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The head of an al-Qaeda-led group in Iraq offered  000 for the killing of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad. ”From now on we announce the call to shed the blood of the Lars who dared to insult our Prophet,” said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, in an audiotape posted on a website on Saturday.
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Odds-on World Cup favourites New Zealand brushed aside a spirited but hopelessly outclassed Portugal 108-13 in a Pool C game on Saturday, but it was not all plain sailing for the All Blacks. Portugal, the last of the 20 teams to qualify for the World Cup and with only three professionals in the match-day squad of 22, never gave up in the blistering heat at Stade Gerland.
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As the floor-crossing window drew to a close on Saturday, sole Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) representative in the national legislature, Motsoko Pheko, denounced the floor-crossing practice as ”political prostitution”. ”Floor-crossing cheats voters — it robs them of the mandate they have given to a political party of their choice,” he said.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday welcomed the Pretoria High Court’s decision to reject a bid by former deputy president Jacob Zuma blocking the state from investigating his business activities in Britain. ”Zuma and his very expensive legal team … must not further attempt to obstruct, delay and resist the investigations by the state,” said DA spokesperson Eddie Trent.