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Al-Qaeda’s north Africa wing said it was behind two suicide attacks that killed at least 57 people in Algeria in the past two days, according to a statement posted on the internet on Saturday. It said the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb was behind Saturday’s suicide truck bombing at a coast guard barracks east of Algiers and an attack in the town of Batna less than 48 hours earlier.
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Taiwan was flushed with pride on Sunday as favourite son and world famous director Ang Lee took the Venice film festival’s top award for his steamy thriller Lust, Caution, just two years after winning with Brokeback Mountain.
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/ 9 September 2007
Cricket’s undisputed leaders Australia are favourites to win the inaugural Twenty20 world championships starting on Tuesday, but rivals are geared to spring surprises. The shortest version of the game promises to underline the belief that limited-overs cricket is an unpredictable sport.
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/ 9 September 2007
Crime Line manager Yusuf Abramjee was awarded the security personality of the year award by the Security Association of South Africa (Sasa), Primedia said in a statement on Saturday. Crime Line is Primedia’s anonymous SMS tip-off service, endorsed by the South African Police Service.
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A California gray whale was killed after a group of people harpooned it and shot with a machine gun, officials said. Petty officer Shawn Eggert said the whale disappeared beneath the surface in the evening, dragging buoys that had been attached to the harpoon, and did not resurface.
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At least 27 people were killed when a bus and a truck collided in southern Tanzania, local newspapers reported on Sunday. The accident on Saturday occurred near the town of Mbeya, about 630km south-west of Dar es Salaam. Newspapers carried photos of the bus with its metal twisted and passengers’ belongings strewn over the ground.
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Congress of South African Trade Unions secretary general Zwelenzima Vavi on Saturday warned that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) was ”showing clear signs” of becoming a broadcaster of the state. ”Increasingly our government and the SABC talk about controlling and limiting what the public broadcaster can or should convey to our people,” he said.
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Namibia snatched a surprise berth at next year’s African Nations Cup finals in Ghana, scoring a stoppage time winner in a 3-2 victory at Ethiopia in Addis Ababa on Saturday. Manu Katupose netted the decisive goal after Namibia, missing several of their regulars and given little chance of advancing, had twice come from behind in the second half.
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An armed gang of about 15 men shot and wounded several people in the Carnival City casino on Johannesburg’s East Rand shortly after midnight on Sunday, police said. Police confronted them at the exit as they tried to make their getaway in several cars and a shoot-out ensued.
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New Zealand and Australia scored a combined total of 167 points and 24 tries as the southern hemisphere giants ruthlessly exposed the huge gap in international rugby at the World Cup on Saturday. The All Blacks swept aside Italy, who had beaten both Wales and Scotland in the Six Nations this year, 76-14 while Australia crushed Japan 91-3.