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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.
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/ 2 February 2007
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave his most upbeat assessment yet of Russia’s booming economy, but refused to say who will run the world’s largest country when he steps down next year. Putin hailed Russia’s recent economic achievements and said that under his leadership, wages, living standards and pensions had all gone up.
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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
Aids-ravaged Zimbabwe plans to expand its free Aids drugs roll-out programme, reaching out to 100Â 000 more patients by the end of the year, the country’s health minister said. With only 60Â 000 people currently accessing life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, Health and Child Welfare Minister David Parirenyatwa said "at least 300Â 000 people will have access to the drugs by 2010".
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/ 2 February 2007
On the second afternoon of the final Test of the summer, as Pakistan softened and dribbled into the cracks like an ice-cream cake in the Sahel, a debate raged in the Newlands’ Railway Stand. The issue of the hour was the correct pronunciation of Ashwell Prince’s name, and while the poses of the rival camps were identical, their positions were diametrically opposed.
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/ 2 February 2007
There is nothing that reduces me to a howling baby more than an unlikely sporting triumph — Kelly Holmes staring at the screen unsure that she has won her first Olympic gold before yelping with joy; Manchester City coming from 2-0 down to beat Gillingham at Wembley. Serena Williams provided those of us that way inclined with another all-time weepy classic last weekend.
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/ 2 February 2007
Cassius Green, cut man supreme, is probably quite glad that Laila Ali’s regular trainer, Floyd Mayweather Snr, does not enjoy long-distance flights. Mayweather has deputised Green and BB Hudson to work Ali’s corner during Saturday’s bout against Gwendolyn O’Neill at Emperor’s Palace in Kempton Park.
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/ 2 February 2007
The earliest start to a rugby season in South African history comes with a change of colour for two franchises and genuine hope of a Super 14 semifinal place for the other three. The optimism is due in part to the decision by New Zealand to rest 22 All Blacks from the first half of the tournament and also the palpable trough that Australian rugby is going through right now.
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/ 2 February 2007
”Sometimes I’m amazed with European clubs — they spend fortunes on ordinary players just because they’re Brazilian.” This wry observation, from Tostao, a World Cup winner and one of today’s most-respected commentators on Brazilian football, might well apply to many talent-hungry European nations, but England is not one of them.