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/ 21 November 2006
Ethiopia and Eritrea on Monday rejected a proposal put forward by an independent boundary commission as a way around a four-year impasse over the demarcation of their shared border. The Horn of Africa neighbors fought a war from 1998 to 2000 over a frontier area of dusty villages and scrubby plains during which 70 000 people were killed.
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/ 21 November 2006
First National Bank will launch cellphone banking in Botswana on Friday, which will make every handset a potential banking channel. The service will at first only be available on the Mascom network, which has approximately 500 000 subscribers.
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/ 21 November 2006
Japanese auto buffs with a passion for classic European designs will get to be builder, mechanic and driver with new do-it-yourself cars unveiled on Tuesday. The miniature car requires the owner to put together all the parts of the car, from the steering wheel to the brakes, with the help of a set of tools and an instruction manual.
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/ 21 November 2006
The three snorkels broke the surface of the ocean, tiny specks far off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, and at a steady clip skimmed towards the United States. Six feet beneath the waves throbbed a vessel like no other, a 15m-long wood and fibreglass submarine carrying a fortune in cocaine and a crew with a mission improbable.
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/ 21 November 2006
United States wonder girl Michelle Wie takes on Japan’s top male golfers again this week on her long road to the Masters, despite simmering criticism that she should mature first in the women’s game. Wie missed the cut by one stroke at the ,2-million Casio World Open last year but vowed to do better this time.
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/ 21 November 2006
Police were following ”good leads” on Tuesday on the whereabouts of a 29-year-old Mozambican former soldier who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison. ”We haven’t found him yet. We are still following leads, but we have good leads,” investigating officer Captain Arnold Boonsthra said on Tuesday morning.
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/ 21 November 2006
The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners. ”Since we started the free distribution of sexual stimulants, our elderly population changed. They’re much happier,” said Joao de Souza Luz.
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/ 21 November 2006
Rupert Murdoch took the unusual step of bowing to public opinion on Monday when he scrapped plans to publish and broadcast a ”hypothetical” account by OJ Simpson of how he might have committed the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend, after a national uproar.
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/ 21 November 2006
The government will investigate the conduct of the South African Post Office board and management after the suspension of CEO Khutso Mampeule. Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said she has ”set in motion processes to this effect”.
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/ 21 November 2006
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has invited his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts to an unprecedented three-way summit in Tehran this weekend to discuss the crisis in Iraq. The meeting is designed in part to promote his role as a responsible regional player rather than the rogue maverick he is often portrayed as in the West.