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Traditional roses and all other red flowers are in demand at the Aalsmeer flower auction in The Netherlands, one of the world’s biggest, where the approach of Valentine’s Day means sales are soaring. During these busy days Aalsmeer, nicknamed "The Wall Street of Roses", doubles its daily sales to almost 40-million flowers a day.
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/ 8 February 2007
A major computer failure at OR Tambo International airport on Thursday morning led to several delays. Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) spokesperson Solomon Makgale told the Mail & Guardian Online that some flights ”on one or two airlines” had been delayed.
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/ 8 February 2007
Robert ”Willie” Pickton never fidgets in his seat. His hands betray a lifetime of toil and he is almost bald, with long strands of greying hair that seem slicked down with some sort of oil. He is an unremarkable man, thin and of average height, except that he is charged with murdering 26 women.
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday there was no merit in Australian umpire Darrell Hair’s claim of racial discrimination on the part of cricket’s world governing body and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The sacked Australian umpire on Wednesday filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the ICC and the PCB.
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/ 8 February 2007
Britain has warned China that its offer of billions of dollars in unconditional aid and cheap loans to African governments risks driving back into debt countries that have only just benefited from debt relief, and undermines efforts to create democratic and accountable administrations.
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As Parliament gears up for Friday’s official opening, a company has told Johannesburg radio station 702 it had still not been fully paid for work it did at last year’s event. Bar company Liquid Chefs says it is still waiting for about R30Â 000 from party organisers Proevents.
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thint are expected to go to battle with the National Prosecuting Authority on Friday over the release of documents from Mauritius. The documents pertain to meetings between Zuma, his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik and Thint.
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/ 8 February 2007
Janny Staeck popped open bottle after bottle of champagne in the upper-deck galley of business class and passed round sausage rolls and salmon puffs. "I had tears in my eyes when we took off; this is airplane history," said the 27-year-old Lufthansa flight attendant.
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/ 8 February 2007
There has never been a better time for Somalia’s leaders to use the opportunity given to them by recent events and establish the lasting peace that has eluded them for the past 16 years. The crushing defeat of forces loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts by the army of Somalia’s transitional federal government has paved the way for the establishment of Somalia’s first functioning central government.
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/ 8 February 2007
Energy provision in South Africa is in a cauldron. Internationally, 2 500 of the world’s leading climate scientists have found in a United Nations study that climate change is being fuelled by carbon emissions and that drastic cuts are necessary to reduce the chances of catastrophic weather patterns.