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/ 10 January 2006
German consumer protection watchdog Stiftung Warentest warned on Tuesday of ”serious deficiencies” in security at four of the 12 to be used during the soccer World Cup finals starting in June. The study, presented at a news conference by one of its authors, Hubertus Primus, found that there was no plan to allow fans to enter the pitch in case of a mass panic.
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/ 10 January 2006
Ekurhuleni mayor Duma ka Nkosi says the process of renaming the Johannesburg International Airport to OR Tambo International is at an advanced stage, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. Ka Nkosi said a formal request had already been submitted to the departments of transport and arts and culture to effect the name change.
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/ 10 January 2006
Iraq has vast hydrocarbon potential that could rival major producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, but United States government analysts are predicting that Iraqi oil production development will remain thwarted for years to come. Its enormous reserves of an estimated 115-billion barrels of proven crude are the world’s third largest after those of the Saudi Kingdom and Canada.
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/ 10 January 2006
At least 52 people have been taken ill with cholera in Tanzania’s commercial capital this month amid a drought that is plaguing East Africa, officials and health workers said on Tuesday. "Although nobody has died so far, it is worrisome that we are getting new cases almost daily despite mass health education programmes," said Dar es Salaam City Council spokesperson Gaston Makwembe.
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/ 10 January 2006
A senior High Court judge urged Zimbabwe’s government to ease colonial era restrictions on the practice of witchcraft, state-run radio reported on Tuesday. Many in Zimbabwe retain strong beliefs in the healing power of spirit mediums along with the role of ancestral rites in the nation’s cultural life, Judge Maphios Cheda said on Monday.
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/ 10 January 2006
Kenya on Tuesday lamented its absence from the list of the world’s poorest nations whose debts were cancelled last year by the Group of Eight (G8) rich industrialised countries, saying it was being punished for good financial performance.
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/ 10 January 2006
A senior High Court judge urged Zimbabwe’s government to ease colonial-era restrictions on the practice of witchcraft, state-run radio reported on Tuesday. Many in the country retain strong beliefs in the healing power of spirit mediums — known as n’angas, or witchdoctors.
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/ 10 January 2006
South Korea’s fallen scientific hero Hwang Woo-suk faked all of his landmark claims to have cloned human embryonic stem cells, his university said on Tuesday. Seoul National University said Hwang — once lauded around the world as a human stem cell-research pioneer — had carried out a brazen scam that deserved punishment.
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/ 10 January 2006
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation reached 585,8% in December, closing in on the record high levels reached in 2004, the government statistical agency said on Tuesday. The latest figures fly in the face of Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono’s projections of inflation levels reaching between 280% and 300% by December 2005.
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/ 10 January 2006
Stem cell-therapy remains the best long-term hope for suffers of many incurable diseases despite the medical hoax perpetrated by South Korea’s researcher Hwang Woo-Suk, analysts said on Tuesday. A panel of experts found earlier on Tuesday that Hwang (52) had faked his entire body of research on stem cells which won him international acclaim and millions of dollars in funding.