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/ 18 January 2007
It’s the out-of-alpha-into-beta form of the Venice Project. Still bemused? The Venice Project was a cool codename for an online television system, and in reality came from a hotel conference room: not one Cornetto required. Now it’s called <a href="http://www.joost.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext">Joost</a> which, if it’s Dutch, should start with a Y sound and rhyme with host, or toast.
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/ 18 January 2007
It was still not clear whether Kebble murder-accused Glenn Agliotti would be charged with involvement in a multimillion-rand drugs syndicate, media reports said on Thursday. His name was expected to be added to the charge sheet ahead of the appearance in court on Thursday of Stephanos Paparas (45).
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/ 18 January 2007
Eskom will conduct load-shedding ”equitably” throughout the country, the power utility said on Thursday. The parastatal’s regional centres would have information on which areas would be affected and at which times. Eskom has not yet been able to establish the reason for an unexpected huge surge in demand, which came while maintenance was being carried out at power stations. ”There is a national alert,” said Spokesperson Tony Stott.
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/ 18 January 2007
Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis have developed a friendly rivalry over who can dispose of their opponents quickest in the Australian Open’s early stages. The two former world number ones have both been in dominant form at the season-opening Grand Slam, where a scheduling coincidence has meant they took to the court at the same time for their matches in the first two rounds.
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/ 18 January 2007
A senior commander of Colombia’s right-wing militias has admitted taking part in some of the country’s most grisly crimes in the first of what could become a flood of confessions from demobilised paramilitary leaders. Salvatore Mancuso told a prosecutor in MedellÃn this week that he was responsible for hundreds of kidnappings, murders and massacres.
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/ 18 January 2007
Militants in Nigeria released five Chinese hostages and one of three Italian oil-workers seized in separate attacks in the country’s oil-rich southern delta region, officials and militants said on Thursday. Nigerian militants have frequently taken foreign workers hostage since launching a wave of attacks on the country’s oil industry since early 2006.
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/ 18 January 2007
Hillary Clinton risked being outflanked in the race for the United States Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday when she revised her stance on the Iraq war but failed to go far enough to satisfy anti-war critics. Clinton took to television and radio studios for a media blitz on Wednesday morning to set out a new position after a visit to Iraq and Afghanistan last week.
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/ 18 January 2007
A British opposition party has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to come clean over his involvement in a controversial R30-billion arms deal between the South African government and British arms manufacturers BAE, media reports said on Thursday.
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/ 18 January 2007
Racial tension is running high in Greytown after the murder of the town’s acting municipal manager Sydney Sikhakhane, media reports said on Thursday. The alleged killers were members of local Muslim community, and Muslim businessmen had received threats from other residents.
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/ 18 January 2007
China has promised to help Zimbabwe overcome its economic woes arising from sanctions by Western countries, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. Its website said the undertaking was given by Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Yuan Nansheng when he paid Acting President Joice Mujuru a courtesy call.