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/ 2 February 2007
A packed bus was ripped apart and at least 26 people killed when it took the full force of a gas-truck explosion on a highway in the southern Philippines, officials said on Friday. The delivery truck, which was carrying liquefied petroleum gas, overturned after its brakes failed.
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/ 2 February 2007
Ethiopia foiled an Eritrean-backed attack that had targeted the African Union summit attended by about 40 heads of states in Addis Ababa this week, an Ethiopian police statement said on Friday. The two Horn of Africa neighbours are embroiled in a dispute over a border ruling by an independent boundary commission.
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/ 2 February 2007
Flyhalf Isa Nacewa kicked 19 points to steer the Auckland Blues to a 34-25 win over defending champions Canterbury Crusaders in the opening match of the 2007 Super 14 rugby competition on Friday. Both sides scored three tries but Nacewa’s two conversions and five penalties kept the Blues in front of a depleted but defiant Crusaders.
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/ 2 February 2007
Vehicle sales for January have improved significantly compared with the same month last year, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) said on Friday. ”New-vehicle sales have started the year on a positive note with … sales at 52Â 213, registering an improvement of 6,9% compared with last year’s 48Â 821.”
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/ 2 February 2007
The United Nations climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, adding pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted more severe rains, melting glaciers, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels.
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/ 2 February 2007
Torrential rain triggered floods in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2m, police and witnesses said. Floods during the rainy season in Indonesia are common, but the heavy rains this week have caused chaos on roads and shut some train lines around Jakarta, police said.
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/ 2 February 2007
The South African stowaway found dead aboard a British Airways plane was on Friday identified in a Daily Telegraph report. It is believed that seventeen-year-old Samuel Peter Benjamin crept aboard the aircraft in Cape Town, his home town, before it left on January 22.
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/ 2 February 2007
The Turkish foreign ministry has advised the South African diplomatic mission that two South Africans died in a gas pipeline explosion at Izmik on Thursday. The mission was in the process of verifying the nationalities of the two deceased, ”with a view to advising the next of kin of these unfortunate developments”.
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/ 2 February 2007
An outbreak of a contagious rash called herpes gladiatorum among Minnesota high school wrestlers led the state to suspend matches and halt contact practices, authorities said on Wednesday. The Minnesota State High School League acted after 24 wrestlers from 10 schools contracted the rash.
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/ 2 February 2007
He is the walrus-moustached farmer whose fight against McDonald’s and globalisation saw him hailed as a modern-day Asterix. But José Bové on Thursday left his sheep farm in southern France, strolled into a labour exchange in a rundown north Paris suburb and announced he was running for president.