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/ 4 September 2006
The commander of United Nations peacekeepers said a joint meeting with Lebanese and Israeli officers on Monday had brought closer a full Israeli troop withdrawal from south Lebanon, in line with a UN resolution. Major General Alain Pelligrini met representatives of the Lebanese and Israeli armies at his headquarters in the southern Lebanese port of Naquora.
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/ 4 September 2006
Eight British Muslims were remanded in custody on Monday after appearing in court in connection with a suspected plot to blow up transatlantic airliners. The men, aged between 19 and 28, appeared at London’s Old Bailey central criminal court via video link from Belmarsh maximum security prison in south-east London.
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/ 4 September 2006
A Pretoria High Court judge on Monday refused so-called ”lion killer” Mark Scott-Crossley bail pending the outcome of an appeal against his murder conviction and life sentence. Judge Jerry Shongwe said he was not convinced Scott-Crossley’s conviction was suspect.
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/ 4 September 2006
Outgoing Auditor General Shauket Fakie has lashed out at municipalities that have again failed to submit timeous financial statements for the financial year ended June 30 2005. Only 126 — 44% — of the 284 municipalities complied with the August 31 2005 deadline for submitting their 2004/05 financial statements, the auditor general said.
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/ 4 September 2006
Gunmen lobbed seven grenades at a bar in the capital over the weekend, wounding 36 people in the fourth grenade attack in Bujumbura since July. Police were on Monday searching for suspects in Sunday’s attack in Bujumbura’s Nyakabiga district. Mayor Richard Nimubona said the violence is linked to the country’s tense political situation.
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/ 4 September 2006
An agreement to limit Chinese clothing and textile imports has brought mixed reaction, with labour in the textile industry welcoming the opportunity to rebuild the industry and the Democratic Alliance saying it will bring price increases. The China-South African agreement follows more than a year’s negotiations. It sets quantitative targets on specified clothing and textile products.
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/ 4 September 2006
A woman said to be the tallest in the world has been fitted with new size-57 shoes from a German cobbler who travelled to China to meet her. ”If I’d known how poorly she was, I wouldn’t have taken the trouble to go there,” 54-year-old Georg Wessels said on Monday on his return from Anhui province where he met the 2,36m-tall Yao Defen.
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/ 4 September 2006
Steve Irwin fell victim to extraordinarily bad luck to be killed on Monday by a stingray, a bizarre-looking but normally shy creature whose defences include poisonous serrated barbs in the tail, experts said. At least 35 species of stingrays swim in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef where Irwin died.
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/ 4 September 2006
The president’s head of communications, Murphy Morobe, will leave his post at the end of the month to become the CEO of Kagiso Media, the company announced on Monday. Current CEO Roger Jardine has been appointed as executive director, said Johnson Njeke, deputy chairperson of Kagiso Media and group MD of Kagiso Trust Investments.
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/ 4 September 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki is to host his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week to discuss issues aimed at strengthening relations between South Africa and the Russian Federation — with the emphasis falling on economic relations. Putin is also scheduled to meet business leaders during his two-day visit starting on Tuesday.