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/ 17 January 2006
First and foremost, always be honest with your insurer or broker if you do not know the answer to any question they ask, always check it out and get back to them with the correct answer. 1st For Women recommends keeping an insurance history record, to make sure you never forget important historical insurance details. […]
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/ 17 January 2006
Some residents of the northern Canadian town of Churchill sleep with a pistol under their pillow. Others never go out unless they are armed. Children are taken to school under guard and can’t play outside during certain times of year. The reason is the growing desperation of the magnificent beast of the north, the world’s largest land predator, the lord of the North: the polar bear.
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/ 17 January 2006
The African Union will this month decide the fate of one of the continent’s most brutal dictators — Hissène Habré of Chad. Habré’s victims, who have been seeking to bring him to justice for 15 years, are counting on South Africa and other democratic countries not to let him slip away again.
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/ 17 January 2006
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi and his Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have expressed anger at the Independent Electoral Commission’s refusal to reopen voter registration for the benefit of UDPS supporters. The DRC must go to the polls for legislative and presidential elections by June 30.
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/ 17 January 2006
After 19 tame and underfunded years, Africa’s human rights watchdog appears to have grown teeth. Not a moment too soon, say the two South Africans most closely associated with the body known as the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, which is one of the few continental structures to have twice criticised rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
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/ 16 January 2006
Socialist president-elect Michelle Bachelet was praised on Monday as a symbol of reconciliation who can help Chile come to terms with its traumatic political past. Bachelet, who was imprisoned and tortured under the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, decisively beat her conservative challenger.
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/ 16 January 2006
Rival clan militias battled for control of Kismayo, Somalia’s third-largest town, on Monday after disputes over how it should be run and the fate of 48 Asian fishermen who have been held by one faction since August. Hundreds of people fled the Indian Ocean port town to escape the violence.
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/ 16 January 2006
No malice was intended when gazetting draft constitutional amendments for public comment over the Christmas holiday period, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said on Monday. The draft document, which proposes changes to the judicial system, was published for comment on December 14.
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/ 16 January 2006
There was no clarity on Monday on whether a protest campaign by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GLA) against a ban on gay blood donors actually took place. The GLA claimed it had recruited more than 100 gay men to donate blood to the South African National Blood Service without disclosing their sexual activities.