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/ 18 January 2006
United Nations helicopters resumed vital relief flights to quake-hit parts of Pakistan on Wednesday after being suspended for three days by heavy rain and snow, officials said. Up to 18 helicopters will be flying extra sorties to make up for lost time and get supplies to cold and hungry survivors of the October 8 disaster.
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/ 18 January 2006
The public protector confirmed on Wednesday it had received complaints from two opposition parties about Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s state-funded holiday. The requests for the matter to be investigated came from the Democratic Alliance and the Freedom Front Plus.
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/ 18 January 2006
South African Rugby Union president Brian van Rooyen received a stay of execution on Wednesday afternoon when Judge Edwin King resigned as head of an inquiry to investigate corporate mismanagement by Van Rooyen. King cited personal reasons as well as SA Rugby dragging its feet with proceedings.
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/ 18 January 2006
Judges at India’s busiest courthouse have ordered New Delhi’s municipal authorities to rid the bustling complex of monkeys or face serious action. Judges at Tis Hazari courthouse ordered the corporation to respond to a petition filed by a lawyer and shoo away the monkeys within a month from the three-storey complex.
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/ 18 January 2006
Former South African president FW de Klerk and former deputy president Jacob Zuma are to be among honoured guests at the official opening of Parliament and the State of the Nation address. This emerged at a press conference at Parliament on Wednesday addressed by the presiding officers.
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/ 18 January 2006
The South African men’s hockey team bounced back from Monday’s embarrassing 8-0 defeat to England to draw 2-2 with Ireland in the first Test at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday night. But there was still disappointment as the South Africans squandered what looked to be a match-winning 2-0 lead.
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/ 18 January 2006
Leroy Lita’s hat-trick inspired Championship leaders Reading to knock Premiership side West Brom out of the FA Cup 3-2 after extra time in a thrilling third-round replay at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday. Tamworth came close to knocking out Championship side Stoke City before losing 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out.
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/ 18 January 2006
Phil Mickelson begins the 2006 United States PGA Tour season in Palm Desert, California, on Wednesday at the 90-hole Bob Hope Classic with hopes of claiming a major championship for the third year in a row. The 2004 Masters and 2005 PGA Championship winner is the only world top-10 player here.
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/ 18 January 2006
The JSE was heading for its fifth consecutive weaker close on Wednesday, with the bourse dragged to a three-week low by profit-taking and sharply lower international markets, equity traders said. By 11.46am, the all-share index was down 1,28% and the all-share industrial lost 1,51%.
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/ 18 January 2006
Well before President George Bush said in 2003 that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger, a high-level state department intelligence assessment deemed the deal ”unlikely” for several reasons, The New York Times said on Wednesday.