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/ 3 September 2007
Judge Nkola Motata was over the legal alcohol limit and abusive to police officers when arrested for drunken driving earlier this year, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday. A daily newspaper reported the state as alleging Motata was ”at least” four times over the legal alcohol limit when arrested.
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/ 3 September 2007
South African captain Graeme Smith believes bowlers could play as big a role as batsmen at the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup his nation is hosting from September 11. ”I’m unsure whether batsmen are going to totally dominate. No one really knows what conditions are going to be like at this time of year,” Smith said.
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/ 3 September 2007
United States President George Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday, just a week before his top officials in Baghdad present pivotal testimony to Congress that could influence future policy on the war. The White House said Bush had arrived at the al-Asad Air Force base, west of Baghdad in Anbar province.
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/ 3 September 2007
The United States has agreed to lift sanctions against North Korea and remove it from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, the foreign ministry in Pyongyang announced on Monday. If confirmed, the move would represent the biggest step towards peace on the divided peninsular since the Korean War armistice in 1953.
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/ 3 September 2007
A series of more than 9 000 mini-memorials in Germany to people killed by the Nazis is for the first time to include an African, Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed, organisers said on Monday. The 10cm-square brass plaques have been cemented into pavements all over the country since 1997 by an artist, Gunter Demnig.
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/ 3 September 2007
Some of the South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage by Afghanistan’s Taliban said they were beaten for refusing to convert to Islam and protecting female captives, a hospital chief said on Monday. ”We found through medical checks that some male hostages were beaten,” Cha Seung-Gyun told reporters.
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/ 3 September 2007
Rebels in Ethiopia’s volatile east declared a unilateral ceasefire so the United Nations can investigate their claims of human rights abuses in the region. The Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels, ethnic Somalis who have been fighting the government for more than a decade, said they will only defend themselves if attacked.
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/ 3 September 2007
There has been a ”marked reduction” in human rights violations, road ambushes and illegal firearms in Uganda’s north-east over the past six months, the United Nations said on Monday. In a report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the Ugandan national army had made important advances between April and August.
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/ 3 September 2007
Police in Soweto were firing water and rubber bullets into a crowd of more than 500 angry protesters in Protea South on Monday. Protesters had begun barricading the main road at about 6am on Monday over poor service delivery. They were also vandalising lamp posts and throwing stones.
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/ 3 September 2007
Bulgaria donated ,6-million in Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV. The European Union newcomer signed on Monday an agreement to donate the debt, accumulated for arms and technical deliveries, to an international fund.