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/ 16 January 2006
South Africa have issued a warning to both Australia and Sri Lanka that they deserve respect in the tri-series one-day competition, using power-hitter Justin Kemp to deliver the message. Australian all-rounder James Hopes said on Monday that Kemp had lived up to his billing as the new Lance Klusener.
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/ 16 January 2006
The Muslim Brotherhood made major gains in Egypt’s parliamentary elections in December last year, making it the biggest opposition to the ruling National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubarak, which has dominated politics in the country for more than two decades.
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/ 16 January 2006
Australia’s summer of discontent with arch-rivals South Africa continued on Monday when yet another of their players was cited for dissent. Hard on the heels of misconduct charges against pacemen Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath, wicketkeeper and limited-overs opener Adam Gilchrist is now in trouble with officialdom.
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/ 16 January 2006
The trial of nine men accused of involvement in a planned coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea was postponed until July in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday. Under an arrangement with the defence, the men — all out on warning — did not appear in court, said prosecutor Torie Pretorius.
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/ 16 January 2006
The Australian and Japanese governments weighed in on Monday in the escalating struggle between whalers and activists in the Antarctic, with Canberra urging restraint before someone is killed. The call by Environment Minister Ian Campbell came after a Japanese harpoon narrowly missed a Greenpeace dinghy trying to protect a minke whale on Saturday.
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/ 16 January 2006
Ethiopian authorities have disclosed the release of an additional 2 252 persons detained about 11 weeks ago during unrest in cities around the country to protest against alleged fraud in last May’s elections, the local press reported on Saturday.
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/ 16 January 2006
The number of people killed in air crashes around the world more than doubled in 2005, with 1 050 victims in 34 fatal accidents, according to statistics from trade magazine Flight International. The number of fatalities in both passenger and freight plane crashes is the highest since 2000 and compares with 466 in 28 accidents in 2004, the figures showed.
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/ 16 January 2006
Global resources group Anglo American has assembled a team of advisers to sell or unbundle paper and packaging group Mondi as well as to sell its 51% stake in gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, London’s Sunday Times reported at the weekend. Anglo has appointed investment bank UBS to either sell or unbundle Mondi into a separate company.
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/ 16 January 2006
He’s among an elite coterie of chefs who command the sort of respect usually accorded royalty, but when Thierry Marx comes to Hong Kong there’s only one place you’ll find him searching for a meal. "I hit the street as soon as I come here," says an excited Marx. "There is nothing like street food, especially in Asia.
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/ 16 January 2006
There’s a new name in the grape industry that does not conjure images of luscious vineyards, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. It is called Riemvasmaak — best known as South Africa’s first successful land claim — and now maybe as the Northern Cape’s grape capital.