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/ 18 November 2006
The witnesses and suspects in the Brett Kebble murder case have not disappeared, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Saturday. ”Our investigators, who have been working on this investigation for several months already, are aware of the whereabouts of all the suspects and potential witnesses in this matter,” said NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi.
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/ 18 November 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) has lost the plot for the future, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Saturday. ”The ANC is so busy tearing itself apart and plundering the public purse and pursuing narrow racist agendas that they have forgotten the people who put them in power,” said DA leader Tony Leon during a Western Cape DA congress.
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/ 18 November 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has shrugged off combative remarks by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, saying the process it is engaged in with the government to change the national strategic plan on Aids will go ahead anyway.
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/ 18 November 2006
Jailed businessman Schabir Shaik is desperately trying to find grounds to challenge his corruption conviction and sentence through the Constitutional Court (Concourt), reported the Weekender on Saturday. Shaik has until November 27 to file a challenge with the Concourt.
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/ 18 November 2006
Leaders from around the Pacific rim said they were ready to break a deadlock in global trade talks at a summit on Saturday. In a statement, leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum said ”major players” in the group were ready to commit to deeper cuts in trade-distorting farm support.
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/ 18 November 2006
Dozens of police and United Nations troops were deployed on Saturday in the centre of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a call for protests transmitted by text message from supporters of presidential election loser Jean-Pierre Bemba.
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/ 18 November 2006
The United States federal government gave the beauty industry a long-sought push-up late on Friday as it lifted a 14-year-old ban on women’s silicone breast implants. In an official announcement, the Food and Drug Administration said it had granted permission to two California companies to resume marketing their silicone-gel breast implants to women aged 22 and older.
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/ 18 November 2006
Sri Lanka’s navy clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels off the island’s north-west coast on Saturday, each claiming to have sunk the other’s vessels, while the military said a rebel ambush on land killed three soldiers. The Navy said it sank three Tiger boats near the northern Mannar peninsula, while the rebels said they sank two navy boats and killed 10 sailors in the incident.
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/ 18 November 2006
Heavy flooding has killed at least 52 people in north-western Afghanistan and left scores more missing this week, and Nato airlifted emergency aid on Saturday, officials said. Governor of badly hit Badghis province Mohammad Nasim Tokhi said at least 50 people were still missing and more than 1Â 000 people were homeless.
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/ 18 November 2006
About 150 Australian and New Zealand soldiers and police arrived in Tonga on Saturday to boost security in the South Pacific island kingdom after violent riots in which eight people died. Police said the streets of the capital, Nuku’alofa, remained fairly calm following Thursday’s riots although two more shops on the outskirts of the city had been set alight overnight.