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/ 14 February 2006
With controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for soliciting to murder and race hate offences, British police have revealed to the public what they discovered when they raided his Finsbury Park mosque. Suspicion about terrorist involvement swirled around Hamza and the north London mosque for years.
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/ 14 February 2006
A United Nations inquiry into conditions at Guantánamo Bay has called on Washington to shut down the prison, and says treatment of detainees in some cases amounts to torture, UN officials said on Monday. The report also disputes the Bush administration’s legal arguments for the prison.
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/ 13 February 2006
United Nations peacekeeping troops in Haiti opened fire on demonstrators on Monday near the capital’s international airport, leaving many casualties, according to Haitian police and UN sources. Police said at least one person was killed in the incident, which came after protests grew over the results of last week’s presidential and legislative election.
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/ 13 February 2006
Road crews scrambled to clear highways for Monday’s commuters, and travellers stranded at airports still waited to get home as the United States Northeast dug out from a record-breaking storm that dumped 60cm or more of snow. The storm dropped 68cm of snow in Central Park — the heaviest since record-keeping was started in 1869.
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/ 13 February 2006
Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana has decided to probe Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s holiday trip to the United Arab Emirates last December, despite a public explanation by President Thabo Mbeki. Mlambo-Ngcuka used a South African Air Force plane on her trip, reportedly at a cost of R700 000.
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/ 13 February 2006
German police had to resort to shutting down a highway to stop an elderly man driving down the wrong side of the road, apparently so convinced he was in the right that he continually blinked his lights at oncoming traffic, authorities said. The man continued along at 110kph for about 70km before stopping.
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/ 13 February 2006
Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar missed a century on Monday but anchored India to a five-wicket win over Pakistan, with Mahendra Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh also scoring beligerent half-centuries in the third limited-overs international. The victory gave India a 2-1 lead over Pakistan in the five-match series.
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/ 13 February 2006
The man who slammed into a police vehicle on Monday and was initially believed to be a Blue Bulls player said he does not know where police got the idea that he was a professional rugby player. He was arrested early on Monday morning after the crash at the Petroport, north of Pretoria.
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/ 13 February 2006
The prosecution in the Jordan Leigh Norton murder trial on Monday took the first step in its bid to link a crucial piece of evidence — a waybill — to accused Dina Rodrigues. The state alleges that the waybill was left on the scene of the murder on June 15 last year by the three men and a youth it claims Rodrigues paid to carry out the killing.