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/ 23 January 2007
Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri on Tuesday mocked United States President George Bush’s plan to send extra troops to Iraq, saying he should send his entire army to be annihilated. In an online video message, the al-Qaeda second-in-command also accused the US of being behind the deployment of Ethiopian troops in Somalia.
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/ 23 January 2007
Very few patients are now bothering to go to Zimbabwe’s four main hospitals where patient care has been paralysed by a junior doctors’ strike, state radio reported on Tuesday. The report said only a few people are now seeking treatment at the hospitals in Harare and the second city of Bulawayo.
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/ 23 January 2007
South Africa’s seasonally adjusted leading economic indicator was reported by the South African Reserve Bank to have leapt to 120,7 for November 2006 from the still-high 119,5 recorded in October, and, according to an analyst, this indicates that growth is still quite spectacular.
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/ 23 January 2007
Standard Chartered Bank, an international bank with more than 50 000 employees in 56 countries, including South Africa, says African markets are overcoming their historical liquidity problems and attracting increased, sustainable portfolio flows.
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/ 23 January 2007
Venture capitalists invested ,5-billion in 2006, marking the industry’s biggest burst of deal-making in the United States since the dot-com bust clogged the financial spigot for entrepreneurs five years ago. Renewed interest in internet start-ups, combined with expanding opportunities in the healthcare and alternative energy markets, spurred a 12% increase from the ,8-billion invested in 2005.
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/ 23 January 2007
Former cricket greats on Tuesday hailed Pakistan’s comeback win over South Africa, a victory described as the ”best ever” by captain Inzamam-ul-Haq. Led admirably by Inzamam, Pakistan achieved a comprehensive five-wicket win over Graeme Smith-led Proteas on the fourth day of the second Test at Port Elizabeth on Monday to level the three-match series at 1-1.
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/ 23 January 2007
The Johannesburg Hospital is investigating allegations that its pharmacists dispensed expired medicines, media reports said on Tuesday. Pharmacists at the hospital allegedly dispensed expired medicines to state patients, sticking labels over the expiry dates.
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/ 23 January 2007
Australian Open spectators face a dilemma when crowd favourites Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis compete in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Clijsters was once known as ”Aussie Kim” when she dated local hero Lleyton Hewitt and Hingis won here three times and says appearing on the Rod Laver Arena is ”like coming home”.
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/ 23 January 2007
Workers’ rights groups launched a worldwide campaign on Monday to promote ”decent work” in football in the lead up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the International Trade Union Confederation said. The campaign would initially focus on the construction sector in the build-up to the tournament in South Africa.
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/ 23 January 2007
Taxi drivers in China’s financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with ”spit sacks” to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road, state media reported on Tuesday. Phlegmatic cabbies will soon have a sack fixed to the metal grill that surrounds the driver’s seat, so that both they and their passengers can make use of it.