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Czech consumption of non-alcoholic beer has surged since stricter rules for drivers were introduced at the start of July, Czech daily <i>Lidove Noviny</i> reported on Tuesday. "Just in July and August we saw sales of non-alcoholic beer in grocery stores rise by 81%," manager of the Staropramen brewery, Martin Novak, told the paper.
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/ 19 September 2006
International media and communications group Independent News & Media on Tuesday announced its interim results, stating that strong underlying trading performances across the group, especially South Africa, "delivered a 4,9% improvement in operating profit before exceptionals".
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/ 19 September 2006
Aids activists will on Tuesday set up hundreds of chairs outside Parliament, hoping to lure MPs to engage with civil society on challenges the country faces in fighting the pandemic. ”In front of Parliament we will have 450 chairs, one for each member of Parliament, to come meet with the public on the issue of HIV. We hope MPs will take up our offer,” the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said in a statement.
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/ 19 September 2006
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels hacked 10 Muslim labourers to death and badly wounded another in eastern Sri Lanka at the weekend, the army said on Monday, the latest in a string of mass killings and abuses. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam blamed the killings, near the island’s Yala National Park, on the military.
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/ 19 September 2006
A substantial percentage of men who have homosexual sex still consider themselves ”straight,” a survey of New York City men suggests. The findings imply that doctors should not rely on a man’s self-described sexual orientation in assessing his risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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/ 19 September 2006
An air of unreality, if not cant, surrounds the latest upsurge of calls for United Nations troops to go into Sudan’s western region of Darfur. The actor George Clooney takes to the stage at the UN Security Council, pleading for action. British Prime Minister Tony Blair seizes on the issue to write letters to fellow European Union leaders.
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/ 19 September 2006
Ayatollah Ali Khomenei on Monday accused the pope of committing the world’s biggest Christian church to what he claimed was a ”crusade” launched by United States President George Bush against Islam. The Iranian leader’s words represented a setback to more than 25 years of Vatican diplomacy aimed at distancing Roman Catholicism from the West many Muslims regard as hostile and decadent.
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/ 19 September 2006
A 40-year-old Somalian was shot dead and his colleague seriously injured after three armed men robbed their store in Delft in the Western Cape, police said on Tuesday. Captain Randall Stoffels said Yusuf Abdille, a shop-owner, was parking his car at his house at Mango Street in Delft South on Monday night when three armed men approached the vehicle.
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/ 19 September 2006
Seven of the 24 prisoners whose applications for medical parole were turned down, had subsequently died, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Monday. Ngconde Balfour, the Minister of Correctional Services, did not elaborate on the causes of their death, the broadcaster said.
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/ 19 September 2006
Internet giant Google said on Monday it would appeal against a Belgian court ruling that threatens to undermine the rationale behind its hugely popular global network of news sites. The court ruled that Google was breaking the law by including headlines and links to online stories from the Belgian press in its Google News service.