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/ 6 February 2007
The United Nations envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, warned on Monday that if the UN Security Council failed to impose a solution for the contested province, it could lead to a return to violence there. Ahtisaari has called for consultations on his proposals to confer internationally supervised autonomy on Kosovo.
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/ 6 February 2007
Fidentia Asset Management may have transferred part of the missing R689-million in clients’ funds to overseas bank accounts. The Cape High Court placed Fidentia under curatorship last Thursday after the Financial Services Board exposed the misappropriation of funds at the company, which managed at least R1,6-billion on behalf of clients.
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/ 6 February 2007
An eight-year-old Indian boy has died trying to show his sister how ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hanged, police in the southern state of Kerala said on Tuesday. Vishnu Sashi fell from a bathroom water tank after tying a plastic cord round his neck on Sunday evening in Vaikom town, said inspector Rajesh Menon.
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/ 6 February 2007
Mamelodi Sundowns’ 2-1 victory over Kaizer Chiefs at the weekend signalled the start of their charge to the Castle Premiership title this season, with no other clubs able to muster the resources to match them over 30 matches. Whoever said money can’t buy happiness was never the chairperson of a football club.
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/ 6 February 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday extended cash and loans as he toured Namibia on an African tour marked by Beijing’s largesse to states where its economic presence is booming. Hu signed agreements extending a grant of ,1-million and a soft loan for the same amount.
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/ 6 February 2007
Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and a trench coat, United States space shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak waited in hiding for a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut’s affections and tried to kidnap her, police in Orlando said on Monday.
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/ 6 February 2007
The Democratic Alliance and the Independent Democrats have ousted the African National Congress (ANC) from control of the Bergrivier municipality in the Western Cape. The two parties on Monday afternoon won a vote of no confidence in the ANC mayor, deputy mayor and speaker.
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/ 6 February 2007
A shortage of African peacekeepers probably means that nations of the continent will not be able to provide enough troops to meet the United Nations target for deployment in Darfur. Cameron Hume, who heads the United States diplomatic mission in Sudan, said the African Union probably could deploy no more than 10 000 peacekeepers at any one time.
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/ 6 February 2007
Six people were found shot dead in a Chinese restaurant in northern Germany on Monday in what police said might have been a triad killing. The bodies of three men and three women, some with their hands bound, were scattered throughout the Lin Yue restaurant in Sittensen, Lower Saxony.
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/ 6 February 2007
It is seen as a quintessentially Russian item, on a par with vodka, felt boots and troikas. But now Coca-Cola, the ultimate symbol of Western capitalism, is to start producing kvas, the Russian drink made from fermented bread which is sometimes called "the Coke of communism".