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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday morning on an historic two day official visit — the first by a Russian head of state to sub-Saharan Africa. Putin’s aircraft in the Russian state livery of white, blue and red touched down at Cape Town International airport at 7.30am.
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/ 5 September 2006
Amelie Mauresmo showed grit, fearlessness and poise to stage a dramatic final-set recovery and defeat long-time nemesis Serena Williams in fourth-round action at the US Open on Monday. World number one Mauresmo knocked out the unseeded two-times former champion Williams 6-4 0-6 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal match against Russian Dinara Safina.
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/ 5 September 2006
Fatally injured by a stingray, Australian ”Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin pulled its serrated barb out of his chest before losing consciousness and dying, the world-famous naturalist’s manager said on Tuesday. Video footage of the attack shows Irwin swimming above the stingray on the Great Barrier Reef on Monday when it lashed out and speared him in the heart with its barbed tail
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/ 5 September 2006
Rival Palestinian factions are close to forming a new power-sharing government which the militant group Hamas expects to lead, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Monday. A national unity government is intended to lift the international freeze on funding to the Palestinian Authority, which has left it facing an economic crisis.
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/ 5 September 2006
Old Mutual has unveiled its much anticipated black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction in Namibia which will result in a broad range of black stakeholders acquiring direct ownership of N$308-million of the Old Mutual Group’s Namibian businesses.
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/ 5 September 2006
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A few hundred supporters of Jacob Zuma marched up and down Pietermaritzburg’s Church Street on Tuesday ahead of the former deputy president’s court appearance. ”Fight conspiracy and demand justice,” read one of the banners the protesters carried.
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/ 5 September 2006
Southern Africa’s public health services are in a state of emergency. Bad pay and working conditions, plus the impact of HIV/Aids, are bleeding the system of its most valuable resource: people. With the cost of training a general practice doctor estimated to be $60Â 000, and that of training a medical auxiliary at $12Â 000.
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/ 5 September 2006
Sarajevo, where some people used to go hungry in order to feed their pets during Bosnia’s war, today shows little sympathy to stray dogs, killing them in their thousands each year. But a group of animal-rights activists hopes to improve the plight of pooches in the Bosnian capital, having finally found support from official ranks to help their bid to offer dogs ”life instead of death”.
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/ 5 September 2006
Turks are robust enough to react calmly to the threats from a break-away Kurdish group to turn the country into ”hell” in an attempt to scare away foreign tourists and damage the economy. But it is nevertheless alarming that six bomb attacks have been carried out this week, killing three people and injuring scores of others.
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/ 5 September 2006
Europe’s ”Christian values” should be enshrined in a new version of the European Union Constitution, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared last week after meeting the pope. In remarks that will reopen the debate on religion in the EU, Merkel threw her weight behind Pope Benedict’s campaign to recognise Europe’s Christian heritage.