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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
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.
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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
Tropical Storm Ernesto hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday, flooding some coastal areas in both Carolina states though there were no immediate reports of casualties. The centre of Ernesto made landfall at Long Beach, sustaining winds of around 113kph, just short of the 119kph needed for hurricane status, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.
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/ 1 September 2006
For local football supporters, the most indelible memory of South Africa’s six encounters with Congo Brazzaville is from August 16 nine years ago. On a mild Saturday afternoon, Bafana Bafana’s lone striker, Phil Masinga, ensured the national team’s first ever qualification for the World Cup in time for the 1998 tournament in France.
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/ 1 September 2006
Three patrol boats from Spain and Italy were heading towards Senegal on Thursday to try to stop vessels bringing migrants into Europe via the Canary Islands. The boats, which will team up with three Senegalese patrol vessels, are moving into place along the African coastline as Spanish authorities report that as many migrants have reached the Canary Islands in August as in the whole of last year.