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/ 26 February 2006
It takes a while to identify anything Indian inside the Metropolitan Mall in the rich Delhi suburb of Gurgaon. Harrison Ford peers from the cinema posters; Tommy Hilfiger lines up alongside Reebok and Benetton on the shop floor. A sign at the escalator (”Be careful of your sari while riding the stairs”) hints this is not a shopping centre in Alabama.
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Tens of thousands of Brazilians crammed the streets of Rio on Saturday, dancing to powerful samba rhythms in their world-famous street party that this year provided the perfect getaway for thieves who snatched art treasures worth millions and used the cover of carnival crowds to make their escape.
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/ 26 February 2006
Iraq’s leading Sunni political bloc said on Saturday it will rejoin talks to form a government of national unity if the Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, follows through on measures designed to banish the prospect of religious war between Shi’ite and Sunni communities. Violence on Saturday left at least 60 people dead.
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/ 26 February 2006
China’s agriculture minister has warned of a possible ”massive bird-flu outbreak” as the country announced two new human cases of the H5N1 flu strain, raising to 14 the number of reports of human infections since October. The latest human cases are a nine-year-old girl and a 26-year-old woman.
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Hopes faded on Sunday for survivors trapped inside a six-storey building a day after it collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, killing at least 16 people, an official said. Rescuers with search lights and crowbars sifted overnight through the rubble of the building, but no bodies or survivors were found.
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Political parties should not create unrealistic expectations, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said on Saturday. ”The DA [Democratic Alliance], for example, the last time it created the impression that it was going to win the election, but it lost to the ANC,” he said at the end of his party’s election campaign in Kempton Park.
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The next few days ahead of the March 1 local government elections are very crucial, African Christian Democratic Party leader Reverend Kenneth Meshoe said on Saturday. ”The work is not done … There are those who have not decided who they will vote for,” Meshoe told party councillors at the election campaign in Dobsonville.
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President Thabo Mbeki took the African National Congress’s local government campaign into the Transkei heartland of the United Democratic Movement on Saturday. In a series of stops, he made his way from the Wild Coast through the heart of the Mqanduli area where UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was born.
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Twenty-four people died in a head-on collision between a midi-bus and truck on the N2 highway to Grahamstown on Saturday, Arrive Alive said. It is believed the midi-bus was travelling south from Paterson to Port Elizabeth when it collided with a Clover dairy truck at 9am, spokesperson Tshepo Machaea said.
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The election race between the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance for the Cape Town metropole is too close to call, DA leader Tony Leon told supporters on Saturday. He was speaking at the DA’s final election rally in Goodwood in Cape Town’s northern suburbs.