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/ 1 September 2006
Two Edvard Munch masterpieces stolen in one of the world’s most audacious art thefts two years ago have been recovered, police said on Thursday. A version of the Norwegian artist’s most famous painting, The Scream, and his Madonna are in the hands of the authorities apparently in good condition after speculation that they had been irreparably damaged.
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/ 1 September 2006
Trainee police officers shot dead as many as three university students in Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday in a row that began after one of the trainees jumped the queue at a bus stop, student witnesses said. Serges Koffi, leader of Ivorian student union Fesci, said some students had beaten up the trainee officer after he refused to wait in line for a bus on Monday.
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/ 1 September 2006
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, marked the 37th anniversary of the coup d’état that brought him to power on Thursday by urging his supporters to ”kill enemies” if they asked for political change. The hard-line comment, made in a speech on state television, runs counter to recent hopes of political reform in the North African country of five million.
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/ 1 September 2006
Uganda’s government prepared to deliver to a -million recovery plan to leaders of the war-ravaged north on Friday as peace talks raised hopes of an end to one of Africa’s longest insurgencies. About 1,7-million northerners are living in squalid camps having fled from two-decades of conflict between the military and cult-like rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 1 September 2006
Alongside the adverts for the latest French supermarket, Japanese plasma TVs, and a Roger Waters gig, the billboards of Warsaw are currently selling a new country. A man gazes at a rippling field of wheat while looking after a child; a young woman admires a fine old block of flats; a teenager contemplates a seascape.
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/ 1 September 2006
The wrangle over fuel pricing intensified this week with revelations that oil companies are selling the commodity at inflated prices after receiving foreign currency from local banks. Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono has called it fraud and threatened to intervene. The government is understood to be drawing up plans for price controls.
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/ 1 September 2006
American veteran Andre Agassi kept his US Open campaign alive and staved off retirement with a stunning 6-4 6-4 3-6 5-7 7-5 victory over a stubborn Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus to reach the third round on Thursday. Agassi extended his run by closing out an extraordinary fifth set against a cramping Baghdatis with a service break to finish the three-hour 48-minute contest.
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/ 1 September 2006
An armless New Zealand man has been cleared of dangerous driving after being found driving a speeding car with his feet. Police dropped the charges on Friday after Colin Smith (31) provided evidence he could drive an unmodified car with automatic gears safely, despite being born without arms.
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/ 1 September 2006
Shopkeepers and homeowners in Baghdad cleared rubble and looked for bodies on Friday, the morning after a series of explosions devastated homes and a bazaar just before nightfall, killing up to 50 people. Some five times that number were injured, the health minister said, and hospitals were packed with the wounded.
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/ 1 September 2006
Australia coach John Connolly will resist the temptation to experiment with a new line-up in the Wallabies’ final Tri-Nations match against South Africa. Neither side can win the series with New Zealand having already wrapped up the title but Connolly said there was still plenty at stake.