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/ 28 February 2006
Senator Hillary Clinton on Monday accused President George Bush’s chief political adviser, Karl Rove, of ”obsessing” about her after the publication of a book quoting him as saying she would win the Democratic nomination but was too ”brittle” to win the presidency in 2008.
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/ 28 February 2006
The head of Swaziland’s oldest political party has pledged to officially register his organisation, testing whether Swaziland’s new Constitution has really marked the end of decades of a royal decree prohibiting political opposition. At a meeting of the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress president Obed Dlamini offered veiled criticism of King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch.
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/ 28 February 2006
Wallaby winger Wendell Sailor was suspended for an additional two matches and fined an extra 3 500 Australian dollars ( 587) on Tuesday over an incident outside a Cape Town nightclub during the New South Wales Waratah’s tour of South Africa earlier this month.
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/ 28 February 2006
Six months after hurricane Katrina flushed the life out of New Orleans, Mardi Gras has brought fun back to the Big Easy. The once-abandoned French Quarter was filled with rowdy revelers stumbling down the middle of the street, tripping over beer bombs and broken beads.
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/ 28 February 2006
At least 20 people died on Tuesday when Maoist rebels in central India blew up a truck packed with anti-Maoist activists. ”Until now, we know that 20 people have died. Around 35 to 40 people are injured. It was a landmine attack,” said police additional director general of intelligence SK Paswan in Raipur, capital of Chattisgarh state.
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/ 28 February 2006
The JSE was awash with red just after noon on Tuesday, dragged down by selling from offshore. With many local players absent due to the public holiday on Wednesday, thin volumes exacerbated the market’s weakness. By 12.14pm, the all share index slipped 1,14%.
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The Merafong municipality, which includes Khutsong, says it is pleased that elections will take place there and hopes law enforcers will protect voters during and after elections. Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi has urged voters in the Merafong municipality to vote for the party of their choice on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2006
Rio happily swapped a group of ageing British rockers for scantily clad dancers and the relentless beat of hundreds of drums on Monday as Brazil’s top-tier groups faced off in the yearly carnival’s annual samba parade. For two nights, 14 of the city’s top-tier samba groups present 80-minute parades costing about -million each.
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/ 28 February 2006
Dennis Weaver, an actor with a Midwestern twang who played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on the classic TV western Gunsmoke and the cowboy cop hero in McCloud, has died. He was 81. Weaver died on Friday from complications of cancer at his home in Ridgway, in south-western Colorado.
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/ 28 February 2006
Various United States interest groups have joined forces to fight a proposed bulk e-mailing fee they claim strikes at the heart of online communication — a level playing field for rich and poor. The service would charge businesses and other bulk e-mailers a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user’s mailbox.