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/ 31 January 2007
Sachin Tendulkar scored his 41st century to power India to a 160-run victory over West Indies in the final one-day international on Wednesday to clinch the four-match series 3-1. The 33-year-old batsman struck 100, reaching the mark with a single off left-arm paceman Ian Bradshaw from the last ball of the innings as the hosts notched up 341-3 after being asked to bat first.
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/ 31 January 2007
The UNHCR has launched a new policy to ensure that HIV-positive refugees around the world have access to life-prolonging ARV medication.
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/ 31 January 2007
Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother. Christopher Swift, a 31-year-old labourer, was the third inmate put to death since January 1 in Texas, which has the highest execution rate in the United States.
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/ 31 January 2007
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of historian David Rattray. While police have not officially confirmed the arrests, sources said that the arrests had taken place and more were expected shortly. Rattray was murdered last Friday at his at his Fugitive’s Drift Lodge home.
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/ 31 January 2007
Global warming will leave Sydney in permanent drought by 2070, with huge seas battering its famous beaches and raging bushfires threatening its outskirts, a report released on Wednesday says. The report from the national government’s scientific agency predicts a grim future for Australia’s largest and best-known city.
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/ 31 January 2007
Making former prisons chief Linda Mti 2010 World Cup security chief is ”inappropriate” and ”a national disgrace”, opposition parties said on Wednesday. ”How is it that the LOC [local organising committee] saw fit to appoint a man whose professional reputation is in tatters?” asked Democratic Alliance MP James Masango in a statement.
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/ 31 January 2007
Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of buying arms to suppress unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta rather than pacifying the region with development, his aides said on Wednesday. "This government approved $2-billion, not to develop the delta, but to buy arms to suppress the people of the region," Abubakar was quoted as saying.
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/ 31 January 2007
The case of Annanias Mathe, the man who escaped from the top-security C-Max prison, was postponed to February 15 in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Mathe, who was still limping, had no legal representation as the court had not yet provided a Portuguese lawyer that he requested for translation.
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/ 31 January 2007
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin expressed confidence on Wednesday that a long-awaited African Union peacekeeping force would be deployed to war-torn Somalia within the month. A day after AU leaders wrapped up a summit in Addis Ababa, Mesfin told reporters the 8Â 000-strong mission would replace Ethiopian troops due to return home shortly.
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/ 31 January 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao began his second African tour in a year on Wednesday to boost ties with a continent that has many of the oil and commodity reserves the Asian giant needs for its ballooning economy. Hu touched down in Cameroon late on Tuesday, the first time a Chinese president has visited the Central African state.