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President Hamid Karzai Sunday formally opened a $25-million Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of the most significant investments in Afghanistan since the ousting of the Taliban five years ago. Karzai said it was an endorsement of the government’s efforts to push ahead with reconstruction of the war-damaged country.
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/ 10 September 2006
The jury at the Venice Film Festival left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed when it awarded top prize to China’s Still Life. Jia Zhang-Ke’s picture, about two people searching for their partners as villages and towns are submerged by the giant Three Gorges Dam project in China, was introduced as a surprise entry.
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/ 10 September 2006
The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. Jimmy Wales challenged other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing.
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/ 10 September 2006
Monday will mark five years since the attacks of 11 September 2001. If one generation knew where they were when mankind first walked on the moon, another knows where they were when the Twin Towers crumbled. And they know where they were when coalition troops first entered Iraq. And when the bombs exploded in London a year ago. By the end of this decade, there is no doubt we will have other sad anniversaries of other terrible events to be mindful of.
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/ 10 September 2006
The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, strengthened into a hurricane in the open Atlantic on Sunday, United States forecasters said. The storm’s maximum sustained winds have increased to near 120kph, making it a Category-One hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the US National Hurricane Centre said.
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/ 10 September 2006
Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has dismissed reports that she has been sidelined by the Cabinet, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. This comes after the inter-ministerial committee on HIV/Aids was enlarged and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka appointed as spokesperson.
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/ 10 September 2006
Maria Sharapova showed grit, firepower and the ability to come up big when it counted most to whip Justine Henin-Hardenne and capture the US Open in straight sets on Saturday. The 19-year-old Russian defeated world number two Henin-Hardenne 6-4 6-4 at Arthur Ashe Stadium by displaying the tenacity normally seen by her more seasoned rival.
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/ 10 September 2006
With his implacable faith and irrepressible spirit he made an inspiring hero. In a South Africa gripped by the brutality of apartheid, he harnessed his effeverscent yet indomitable personality with the weight of his church to galvanise world support for democracy and human rights.
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/ 10 September 2006
Dramatic evidence that the United States is involved in illegal mercenary operations in East Africa has emerged in a string of confidential e-mails seen by The Observer. The leaked communications between US private military companies suggest the CIA had knowledge of the plans to run covert military operations inside Somalia.
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/ 10 September 2006
Josephine Damato is not yet a ”9/11 widow” but she expects to be all too soon. ”The doctors say he is one step from cancer,” she says, her slim hand beginning to shake as she reaches out and strokes her husband Mike’s wrist. In their spacious surburban home in Long Island, a commute from New York, the couple’s three daughters giggle as they play a game of pretend shopping.