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/ 22 November 2006
Amid speculation about his political future, Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, went on trial on Tuesday with David Mills, the estranged husband of the British Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell. An article published by a newspaper close to the Italian right quoted Berlusconi as saying he would never again return to government.
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/ 22 November 2006
The township residential property market is showing more vibrancy than that of formerly white suburbs, media reports said on Wednesday. First National Bank Home Loans CEO Ed Grondel said the township market is performing better than the national metropolitan market in more than one respect.
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/ 22 November 2006
It seems an unlikely place for Mali’s president to seek advice in times of crisis. A simple family compound in a bustling working class neighbourhood, where barefoot children compete with goats and belching mopeds for space to play on the dusty streets. But this is no ordinary family.
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/ 22 November 2006
Iran has promised to support Zimbabwe against ”a few bully nations”, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran did not recognise the current economic sanctions against Zimbabwe imposed by Western countries.
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/ 22 November 2006
The actor Michael Richards, better known as Cosmo Kramer in the long-running TV show Seinfeld, has apologised for a racist outburst that was captured on film and broadcast across the United States. Richards took exception when some black audience members talked during his act at a Los Angeles comedy club on Friday.
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/ 22 November 2006
Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomised by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill. But lodge workers and the impoverished surrounding communities face a threat far more deadly than the leopards and lions that thrill the visitors.
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/ 22 November 2006
The bitter relationship between France and Rwanda sank to new depths on Tuesday after a French judge accused the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, of ordering the assassination of the Hutu president that led to the genocide of 800 000 Tutsis in 1994.
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/ 22 November 2006
The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the United Nations. There are now 39,5-million living with HIV infection, according to the annual UNAids report, released ahead of World Aids Day on December 1.
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/ 22 November 2006
South Africa’s axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has questioned the independence of the judiciary, suggesting that sensationalist media coverage influenced the Supreme Court of Appeal in its ruling against graft-accused businessman Schabir Shaik.
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/ 22 November 2006
Media24 is diving into the psychology of women – literally. The media group on Tuesday announced the launch of another addition to the women’s magazine category, <i>Psychologies</i>, which will be available on shelves in April 2007.