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A suspected suicide attacker exploded a bomb near a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar late on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, including the city police chief, and wounding 35, police said. Most of the victims were police and municipal officials who were clearing the route for a procession of Shi’ites.
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/ 27 January 2007
A donation by South Africa of military surplus equipment to Mozambique came at the right time for the country — two work boats will be used to save people left stranded by floods. About 43Â 000 people are stranded in western Mozambique after heavy rains and floods in the area.
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/ 27 January 2007
”In my time as South African coach, I’ve never seen a pitch behave like this,” commented Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer on the pitch at Newlands after the second day’s play in the third Castle Lager Test between South Africa and Pakistan. ”It’s not one of the best pitches produced at Newlands over the last 10 or 15 years.”
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/ 27 January 2007
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday denied meeting businessman Tokyo Sexwale to discuss the latter’s bid for leading the ruling party, as reported by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Zuma said caution should be applied to "the use of faceless sources that have questionable motives".
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/ 27 January 2007
Sri Lanka’s navy attacked and destroyed three Tamil Tiger boats on Saturday as the rebels launched their first assault on the port of Colombo in 10 years, the Defence Ministry said. Naval craft blew up one boat after the three were spotted near a restricted zone before chasing and sinking the other two, leaving an unknown number of casualties, the ministry said.
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/ 27 January 2007
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called for a ”good governance pact” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an address to the National Assembly at the start of a landmark visit to show support for President Joseph Kabila’s young democracy.
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/ 27 January 2007
The spate of deadly violence in Somalia’s capital in recent days is the work of an Islamic movement that was driven from Mogadishu and much of the country’s south last month, a government spokesperson said on Saturday.
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/ 27 January 2007
Senegalese authorities on Saturday arrested three opposition candidates in next month’s presidential elections, after police broke up a banned anti-government demonstration, an Agence France-Presse correspondent reported. Police detained Ousmane Tanor Dieng, secretary general of the former ruling Socialist Party, former prime minister Moustapha Niasse and another opposition party leader.
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/ 27 January 2007
Another two Palestinians died on Saturday in clashes between rival factions in Gaza, bringing to 17 the death toll in three days of bitter fighting that has torpedoed talks on forming a unity government. Rival supporters of the ruling Hamas movement and the Fatah faction loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas have fought running battles since Thursday night.
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/ 27 January 2007
Attempts by the Modikwa Platinum Mine in Limpopo to resolve a racism dispute with miners deadlocked on Friday evening, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. ”The issue of racism has partly been addressed by suspending the two mine managers who wrote racist e-mails, which were circulated around the company,” said NUM spokesperson Humbulani Tshikalange.