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South Africa and Sri Lanka will be entering new territory when they meet in a World Cup Super Eight match at the Guyana National Stadium on Wednesday. The match is the first of any consequence to be played at a new stadium, outside the capital Georgetown, where workers are still battling to get everything ready for Wednesday.
United States forces in Iraq said on Tuesday they had arrested two leaders of a network suspected of killing about 900 civilians in a series of high-profile car bomb attacks. Haytham Kazim Abdallah al-Shimari and Haydar Rashid Nasir al-Shammari al-Jafar were arrested separately on March 21 in Baghdad’s Sunni district of Adhamiyah.
Economic expansion in the region and the huge growth in tourism along the Garden Route have prompted budget airline 1time to re-launch its route to George with an inaugural flight from Johannesburg on Friday. The carrier pulled out of George in March 2006 due to lack of capacity.
South African and foreign intelligence agencies have been monitoring an alleged training camp linked to Muslim fundamentalists at Greenbushes, Port Elizabeth, the Herald Online reported. According to an intelligence source, the camp is no longer operational because of possible botched surveillance activities.
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday told online video-sharing group YouTube to remove World Cup clips claiming copyright infringement. ICC Development, the body’s commercial arm, have gone after YouTube to protect the rights of broadcast and sponsorship partners.
Five years after being brought to Guantánamo Bay in shackles, the Australian David Hicks has pleaded guilty to a war-crime charge of providing material support to terrorism. Hicks is accused of fighting alongside al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and the hearing is seen as a test of the Bush administration’s system of military tribunals.
A new initiative was launched this week to fight human trafficking globally. ”This is the largest initiative ever launched of this sort,” said the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, in an interview. ”It is meant to create a framework for the other disjointed initiatives which have taken place so far.”
South African steel giant Mittal Steel has contravened the Competition Act by charging excessive prices, the Competition Tribunal ruled on Tuesday. It found that the company contravened section 8(a) of the Act by charging an excessive price for its flat steel products to the detriment of consumers.
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The stand-off over Iran’s nuclear ambitions should be resolved exclusively through peaceful means, Russian and Chinese leaders said in a resolution signed in Moscow on Monday. The United States and some European states suspect Iran of using its atomic power programme as a cover for attempts to build a nuclear weapon.