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/ 11 January 2006
The White House warned Iran on Tuesday that it risked a ”serious escalation” in its nuclear stand-off with the United Nations and the West after Tehran broke the seals on equipment at its uranium enrichment facility. Iran’s decision to break the seals risked triggering international sanctions, the White House’s press secretary, Scott McClellan, said.
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/ 11 January 2006
Defeated in the field by a bloody military crackdown, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic insurgency has dispersed amid the dusty back streets of the country’s teeming northern cities and is plotting its comeback. Small numbers of militants await the moment to re-launch their campaign for a Muslim revolution in Africa’s most populous state.
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/ 11 January 2006
Move over, Barbie; veiled is beautiful. The physical ideal of Muslim girls increasingly includes the hijab, as evidenced by toy shops’ best-selling doll "Fulla" and the string of showbiz stars opting to cover up. The dark-eyed and olive-skinned Fulla has replaced her American rival’s skimpy skirts with more modest "outdoor fashion".
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/ 11 January 2006
Four weeks after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, it remains unclear whether a government of national unity will be formed. There is still no official result, even though representatives of the bigger parties are already negotiating over the composition of the new government.
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/ 11 January 2006
The African leg of the World Social Forum kicks off next week in the Malian capital, Bamako, with a host of issues on the agenda: war and militarism, global trade and debt, to name just a few. The conference website where these topics are listed makes no direct mention of Aids, however, or the need for good governance in African states.
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/ 11 January 2006
The fizzy drink of choice at PepsiCo on December 12 was more likely to have been champagne than cola. By the end of trading on Wall Street that day, the company’s market capitalisation reached ,4billion. For the first time in the history of the two companies, PepsiCo was valued more highly than its old arch-enemy.
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/ 11 January 2006
Sari-clad women carry sparkling metal pots of water on their heads through winding alleys leading to their homes. It’s a scene from eternal India, oft romanticised as a daily part of a wholesome country life. But these mothers and children live not in isolated villages. They eke out a living in an overcrowded slum in the shadow of the World Trade Centre.
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/ 10 January 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s family ”gravy plane” holiday in Abu Dhabi would have cost the taxpayer at least R700 000, Democratic Alliance MP Gareth Morgan said on Tuesday. He was reacting to a report that she and her family flew to the United Arab Emirates for a five-day holiday at the end of December on the SA Air Force Falcon 900 jet reserved for VIPs.
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/ 10 January 2006
The Democratic Alliance paid its own city manager a R196 000 bonus just three years ago, Cape Town mayor Nomanidia Mfeketo said on Tuesday. She was replying to Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Helen Zille, who revealed earlier in the day that four of the city’s current top managers earned bonuses last year that pushed their before-tax earnings to over a million rand each.