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/ 5 February 2007
Reports that more names will be added to the United Nations Security Council list of terror suspects come from the media, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday. Pahad said he read in media reports that there had been a meeting with a ”United States senior official who did not want to be named” who said more names would be added.
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/ 5 February 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has proposed five steps for the government to realise the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA). Briefing the media at Parliament on Monday, DA spokesperson Ian Davidson said there is great value in a single economic plan to harness initiatives to accelerate economic growth.
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/ 5 February 2007
As prisoners in the United States ”war on terror” languish at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cubans nearby are unaware of what goes on inside the base. Some younger Cubans yearn for the music and clothes of the United States, but the older generation are staunch supporters of ailing President Fidel Castro.
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/ 5 February 2007
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation. Assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port hours before Gedi began the week-long meeting of about 200 traditional leaders.
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/ 5 February 2007
A South African convicted of the murder of Anglo-Zulu war expert David Rattray was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Rattray, a friend of Britain’s Prince Charles and famous for his lively oral accounts of fighting between British troops and Zulu warriors in the 19th century, was shot dead on January 26.
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/ 5 February 2007
Bafana Bafana players were impressed by their new coach, Brazilian Carlos Parreira, after their first training session at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Monday morning. ”He looks good to me. He is like the person we needed for a long time,” England-based Blackburn Rovers player Aaron Mokoena told reporters after the training session.
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/ 5 February 2007
Nigerian militia leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, whose release is demanded by armed groups causing havoc in the oil-producing Niger Delta, should be barred from his own trial because of bad behaviour, prosecutors said on Monday. Asari’s treason trial started a year and a half ago but the court is yet to hear a witness.
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/ 5 February 2007
A letter bomb exploded at a London office on Monday, injuring one woman employee. Police said the area in Victoria Street in Central London was cordoned off after they received reports of a suspicious package. ”A female employee was taken to hospital. There was an explosion and she was taken to hospital as a result,” a Scotland Yard spokesperson told Reuters.
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/ 5 February 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao brought his eight-nation African tour on Monday to Namibia, a sparsely populated, mineral-rich desert country that hopes to benefit from an influx of Chinese investment and tourists. Chinese and Namibian flags and photos of Hu and Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba decorated the main highway from Windhoek’s airport.
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/ 5 February 2007
Mortar bombs killed 15 people in a Sunni neighbourhood in Baghdad on Sunday in fresh violence after a truck bomb killed 135 people in a Shi’ite area in the worst single bombing since the United States-led 2003 invasion. The spiralling sectarian bloodshed threw the spotlight on Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s planned crackdown in Baghdad.