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South Africa on Tuesday said the European Union’s plans to send a security force to back United Nations peacekeepers during upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were unwarranted as troops from the region could provide the necessary support.
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The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday dismissed urgent applications by four municipalities to stop the transfer of their assets and services to other provinces. The Merafong Demarcation Forum applied to restrain government from handing over at midnight on Tuesday their assets and service duties from Gauteng to the North West province.
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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the Western Cape is planning to conduct Wednesday’s municipal election as if there will be no power available in the province. ”We are planning for no electricity. That is the safest,” provincial electoral officer Courtney Sampson told a media briefing in Bellville on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 28 February 2006
As many as 1 300 people could have died in the wave of sectarian violence that swept Iraq following the bombing of a gold-domed shrine in Samarra, it was reported on Tuesday. Most of the dead had been shot, knifed or garroted, often with their hands tied execution-style behind their backs.
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The Eritrean government has rejected a proposal by the United Nations Security Council to hold talks with an independent commission to resolve its ongoing border dispute with Ethiopia. ”The final and binding decision of the boundary commission marks the legal conclusion of the Eritrea-Ethiopia issue once and for all,” said the Eritrean foreign ministry on Monday.
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Iraqi prosecutors submitted to the court trying Saddam Hussein on Tuesday what they said was an execution order signed by the former Iraqi dictator, as his lawyers once again stormed out of the tribunal. Documents were presented linking Saddam to the trial and execution of 148 villagers from Dujail, north of Baghdad.
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Marat Safin returned to the ATP Tour after six months out with a career-threatening knee injury with an outstanding win over world number five Nickolay Davydenko in the first round of the Dubai Open on Tuesday. The former world number one from Russia beat his compatriot 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 despite having felt ”lost” in the first set after such a long absence from competition.
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The damage to the Koeberg nuclear plant was done deliberately and was not an accident, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said on Tuesday. One of the two generators at Koeberg was damaged in December in what Erwin now described as sabotage, causing severe outages in the Western Cape over the past month.
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Bombers killed more than 30 people, including two British soldiers, in Iraq on Tuesday as tanks guarded Sunni mosques amid fears of a new outbreak of sectarian violence. Three bombs went off in quick succession in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad, killing at least 33 people and wounding more than 100.
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The Pretoria High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union to allow 60Â 000 officers special votes or ballots at voting stations where they are not registered. Judge NM Mavundla said allowing police to leave their posts to vote could lead to chaos.