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/ 19 September 2006
Zambia has received more than -million in aid this year from Western donors, a senior official said on Monday. ”The European Union has disbursed -million as direct budget support … while the UK has disbursed ,4-million,” said Evans Chibiliti, head of Zambia’s treasury.
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/ 19 September 2006
Israel dropped at least 350Â 000 cluster bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with Hezbollah guerrillas, mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a deadly legacy for civilians. ”The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fired in the last three to four days of the war,” said David Shearer, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon.
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/ 19 September 2006
The Somali government on Tuesday appealed for international help to investigate a failed bid to assassinate President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, blamed on the al-Qaeda network, which killed 11 people. As authorities interrogated two suspects, government spokesperson Abdirahman Mohamed Nur Dinari said they needed foreign expertise to investigate the attack.
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/ 19 September 2006
The two top leaders of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have missed a Tuesday deadline to gather at an assembly point on the Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border as part of a truce, mediators said. ”They have missed the deadline,” said the head of an independent truce monitoring team, Major General Wilson Deng Kuoirot.
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/ 19 September 2006
Police in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, arrested three more company executives for hiking prices without government consent but a judge has said the police are being overzealous, it was reported on Tuesday. Those arrested were from fertiliser manufacturers Windmill and Zimbabwe Fertiliser Company, and Circle Cement, the state-controlled Herald reported.
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/ 19 September 2006
The organisers of the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix were on Tuesday fined -million over their controversial decision to allow the leader of an unrecognised country to present the trophy at the end of this year’s race. A row erupted after last month’s Formula One event in Istanbul when Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat made the trophy presentation.
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/ 19 September 2006
The death toll from a diarrhoea epidemic in Ethiopia has climbed to at least 182, with nearly 20Â 000 others infected since the outbreak erupted in June, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN humanitarian agency said the disease had spread to five Ethiopian regions that were ravaged by devastating floods.
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/ 19 September 2006
Congress of South African Trade Unions congress-goers wildly cheered the Treatment Action Campaign’s Zackie Achmat on Tuesday when he called for the removal from office of South African Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Achmat spoke shortly after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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/ 19 September 2006
Michael Hussey has brushed off talk of wanting to succeed Ricky Ponting as Australian captain, saying he is happy just to be playing in the same side. Hussey took charge of his first game as skipper on Monday in the DLF Cup against the West Indies and led from the front, scoring a maiden one-day century only to see his side beaten by three wickets.
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/ 19 September 2006
Ian Woosnam gave a first hint of his Ryder Cup thinking on Tuesday morning at the K-Club when he sent out his six pairings for the first fourballs practice session. Woosnam teamed up veteran Colin Montgomerie with Englishman David Howell in his first group, allying the Scot’s huge experience in the competition with the Englishman’s fine recent form.