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Chad Campbell’s one-up triumph over Tiger Woods on Friday was the most spectacular surprise on a day that saw a string of upsets at the WGC Accenture Match-Play Championship. Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson were also eliminated from the ,5-million tournament.
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/ 25 February 2006
Julia Mancuso’s giant-slalom gold medal sparked celebrations for Americans and Italians. And 50-year-old Russ Howard helped perk up Canada’s post-hockey mood by winning a long-awaited Olympic men’s triumph in curling — the country’s number-two sport.
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/ 25 February 2006
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism from prominent Filipinos on Saturday for declaring a state of emergency to quash a coup plot, with a former president and military commander saying the move will hurt the Philippines unless it is rescinded soon. Meanwhile, police raided the offices of a newspaper critical of Arroyo.
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/ 25 February 2006
Thailand’s embattled prime minister warned on Saturday that ongoing political unrest may hurt the economy, as leaders of a pro-democracy movement seeking to oust him urged voters to boycott upcoming national elections. The prime minister decided on Friday to dissolve Parliament and call snap elections.
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/ 25 February 2006
The death toll from the collapse of a Moscow market roof has reached at least 64, with 22 people still hospitalised, an official with the Russian emergencies ministry said early on Saturday. Rescuers have retrieved 63 bodies from the rubble of the market where the roof collapsed on Thursday, and one more person died in hospital.
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/ 25 February 2006
Convicted German confidence trickster Jurgen Harksen describes in a book published in Germany on Friday how he persuaded his rich victims to keep sending him money in South Africa during a nine-year run from the law. Harksen describes how he hired a host of working-class South Africans to act the part of American bankers.
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The power cuts that have cost Cape Town businesses millions of rands over the past two weeks are the result of Eskom’s incompetence, says Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille. ”We must not allow them to get away with this,” she said at an election rally in Mitchells Plain on Friday evening.
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The African National Congress is serious with its undertaking to root out corruption, Mathews Phosa, businessman and ANC national executive member, said on Friday night. Phosa was speaking to minority groups in Bloemfontein at a function organised by the ANC in the Free State.
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/ 25 February 2006
An English vicar has become an unlikely African rebel after his church blocked his appointment as a bishop in Malawi. Supporters of the Reverend Nicholas Henderson this week carried him shoulder-high and blockaded the offices of the head of the diocese of Central Africa because he wanted to stop the vicar’s move from London.
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/ 25 February 2006
A Nigerian court on Friday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to pay ,5-billion in damages for polluting the Niger Delta, a fresh blow to the company that was already reeling from a kidnap crisis and a wave of sabotage against its installations. Communities have repeatedly accused Shell of letting its oil spill into the rivers of the delta.