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/ 23 January 2007
United States President George Bush is expected to use the annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night to tackle the perception that he is now a lame-duck president by shifting attention from the carnage in Iraq to domestic issues such as health, energy conservation and immigration.
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/ 23 January 2007
Five Chinese workers abducted earlier this month in Nigeria described their experience as ”hell on earth” after arriving in Beijing following their 13-day ordeal, state media reported on Tuesday. The five were freed in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta after gunmen broke into the rented apartment and forced them away at gunpoint before dawn.
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/ 23 January 2007
Springbok coach Jake White is relying on South Africa’s Super 14 coaches to make sure key players are fit for the Rugby World Cup. Unlike New Zealand and Australia, whose national coaches will oversee restrictions on playing time in the Super 14 for their best players, White said he was leaving those decisions to the coaches of the Bulls, Cheetahs, Lions, Sharks and Stormers.
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/ 23 January 2007
More than 20 people were killed in Guinea on Monday in clashes between protesters and security forces who opened fire on the most violent day of a two-week general strike against President Lansana Conte. Authorities arrested union leaders in a bid to break the crippling strike that unions had called against the ageing Conte, saying he was unfit to rule.
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/ 23 January 2007
Sudan’s air force bombed Darfur villages in violation of a recent ceasefire, hindering African and American attempts to unite rebel groups under a common leadership that can commit to peace, the African Union (AU) said on Monday. The AU comments were the first independent confirmation of reports from rebel leaders about the air raids in northern Darfur last week.
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/ 23 January 2007
Police arrested a man after he allegedly threatened to detonate a bomb on a Johannesburg-bound Air Botswana flight on Monday evening. ”He apparently banged on the cockpit door and demanded that it be opened and threatened to bomb the plane,” said spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vish Naidoo.
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/ 23 January 2007
”Darling, they’ve shot me. I can’t hold the door closed any longer,” said Willem Smit before giving a mighty shove and locking three robbers away from his family. Smit (41) of Acasia, north of Pretoria, was shot through the kitchen door on their smallholding in front of his wife, Magda (44) and their 13-year-old son, Steven.
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/ 23 January 2007
Professor Nixon Kariithi says 2007 might just define South Africa’s media landscape into a new and unknown animal.
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/ 23 January 2007
Although the South African Press Association is an indispensable news provider to newsrooms countrywide, budget constraints are stifling it slowly but surely. The news agency has recovered from major financial losses in 2000 and its board is next month set to make some important decisions about its future. Fienie Grobler reports.
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/ 23 January 2007
Stuart Graham explains the ins and outs and implications of the battle for a stake in Gauteng radio station Kaya FM.