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/ 27 February 2006
Lawyers of the two factions of Zimbabwe’s splintered opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party are locked up in a tug of war over rights to the MDC brand, in what appears a preliminary to a long and damaging legal wrangle over the party’s name, symbol and assets.
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/ 27 February 2006
The price of bread rose by more than 30% as stores in Zimbabwe opened for business on Monday, the latest blow to consumers in the country’s teetering economy. A regular loaf went up to Z 000 (about R3,68), from the government-controlled price of Z 000 (about R2,70).
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/ 27 February 2006
There is a quirky new drama coming to American television next month. It is called Big Love, and HBO will air it in a plum weekly slot, just after The Sopranos. Like The Sopranos, Big Love is a tale of marital strife in a dysfunctional family, only in this case the central character is not a Mafioso but a regular guy from Utah who happens to have three wives — hence the wry title.
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/ 27 February 2006
The turbulent trial of Saddam Hussein and seven former cohorts resumes on Tuesday with the ousted dictator ending a hunger strike and his lawyers considering lifting their boycott of the court. After a hearing on February 14, Saddam announced that he was on a hunger strike amid chaotic scenes.
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Armed with wellington boots, President Thabo Mbeki on Monday experienced life in a rain-soaked informal settlement: mud, water and a leaky roof. Mbeki was campaigning in Rustenburg, ward 13 — normally known as Ramochana, not far from the local prison. Engaging residents in the vernacular, Mbeki asked after their concerns.
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/ 27 February 2006
Dutch banks said on Monday they are to take urgent measures to end a spate of thefts from automatic telling machines (ATMs) by criminals blowing them up with gas. The ATMs are to be protected by the relatively simple measure of adding a ventilation grill to money machines thought likely to be targets.
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/ 27 February 2006
Iraq is on the verge of breaking up along religious, ethnic and tribal lines — a process bloodily amplified by the Shia versus Sunni violence in the wake of last week’s bomb attack on the gold-domed shrine in Samarra, the International Crisis Group says in a report out on Monday.
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/ 27 February 2006
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas warned Hamas on Sunday night that he will resign if the group makes it impossible for him to carry out his duties as president. Abbas has stated that he wants peace negotiations with Israel to establish a Palestinian state and that Hamas will have to abide by these rules if it forms a government.
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/ 27 February 2006
Heavily armed soldiers surrounded Afghanistan’s main high security prison on Sunday night, after Taliban and al-Qaeda inmates led a revolt that left at least 30 people wounded and possibly several dead. At least 1 500 prisoners barricaded themselves into the two main wings of Pul-i-Charki prison after a riot erupted on Saturday night over new uniform regulations.
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Traditional leaders would be given powers at local government level under African Christian Democratic Party rule, party leader Kenneth Meshoe said on Sunday. He was speaking in a church at Barcelona informal settlement in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni, on the East Rand.