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/ 23 January 2007
The JSE was a mixed bag in noon trade on Tuesday, although the bourse was down overall in line with its global counterparts. An uptick in commodity prices lifted resources stocks, thereby paring losses. By 12.14pm, the all-share index shed 0,35%. Industrials lost 0,86%, while the financial and banks indices fell 0,44% and 0,76% respectively.
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/ 23 January 2007
Pace bowler James Franklin went from villain to hero as New Zealand kept their triangular series hopes alive with a 90-run win over England at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The Black Caps did not look to have enough on the board when dismissed for 210 after winning the toss and electing to bat, but they bowled and fielded exceptionally well to restrict England to just 120 in reply.
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/ 23 January 2007
The ”ultimate competitor”, Serena Williams, upset the form book to blitz into the Australian Open semifinals on Tuesday as Roger Federer and Andy Roddick set up a showdown against each other. Seven-time Grand Slam champion Williams, who won here in 2003 and 2005, staged an amazing fightback to down Israeli 16th seed Shahar Peer 3-6, 6-2, 8-6 in an epic battle.
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/ 23 January 2007
Trevor Ncube, the chief executive of the Mail & Guardian, said on Tuesday that he was ”delighted” that the Zimbabwe High Court in Harare would meet on January 24 to consider the threat to withdraw his Zimbabwean citizenship. The Zimbabwe government is preventing Ncube from renewing his passport, claiming he is not a citizen of Zimbabwe.
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/ 23 January 2007
As the rich and slim flocked to waterfront convention centre for Rio de Janeiro’s glitzy biannual fashion show, prostitutes in a downtown square took to a cobblestone catwalk for a show of their own. Sex workers from Davida, a Brazilian organisation that defends the rights of prostitutes, strutted through the streets wearing their new line of fall/winter clothes.
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/ 23 January 2007
A United Nations envoy said on Tuesday Iraq was sliding ”into the abyss of sectarianism” and urged Iraqi political and religious leaders to halt the violence after two car bombs in a Baghdad market killed 88 people. Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed the car bombs on followers of Saddam Hussein.
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/ 23 January 2007
The powerful chairperson of Burundi’s ruling party said on Tuesday he had spent the night in the South African embassy, fearing for his safety after his police bodyguards were changed unexpectedly as he faces growing discontent. Hussein Radjabu’s ruling Hutu CNDD-FDD party faces mounting criticism in the tiny Central African nation.
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/ 23 January 2007
Ethiopian forces that helped Somalia’s interim government rout rival Islamists in a war over the New Year will begin leaving the chaotic Horn of Africa nation’s capital on Tuesday, an Ethiopian general said. ”Starting today [Tuesday], we will withdraw our forces from Mogadishu,” General Suem Hagoss said at a ceremony in the volatile coastal capital.
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/ 23 January 2007
Two South Africans accused of having links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan are expected to make submissions to government on Tuesday as to why they should not be on the United Nations suspected terrorists’ list, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2007
Only white farmers who have shown goodwill to President Robert Mugabe’s government will be allowed to keep their farms, Zimbabwe’s security minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday. ”Zimbabwe’s security forces have been directed to identify white farmers who have shown goodwill towards the government,” Didymus Mutasa told the Herald newspaper.