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/ 10 February 2006
A former CIA official who coordinated United States intelligence on the Middle East has accused the Bush administration of ”cherry-picking” intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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/ 10 February 2006
A former CIA official who coordinated United States intelligence on the Middle East has accused the Bush administration of ”cherry-picking” intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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/ 10 February 2006
Zimbabwean authorities have vowed to forge ahead with land seizures from white farmers who have remained on their properties after the country’s controversial land reforms. Lands Minister Mutasa said that following constitutional reforms passed by Parliament last year ”there is not any white farmer now who is farming legally”.
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/ 10 February 2006
The South African government is faced with such an embarrassment of riches in 2006/07 that Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel will be able to cut personal income tax by 1% across the board, reduce corporate income tax by 2%, and possibly halve the rate of retirement tax to 9%, according to Investec Asset Management.
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/ 10 February 2006
After being pushed up hard towards the close on Thursday, the JSE started Friday in negative territory and remained lower at midday. Both a stronger rand and weaker world markets were weighing on the local bourse. By noon, the all-share index had shed 0,66%, led lower by a 1,39% decline in resources and a 1,44% fall in the gold-mining index.
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/ 10 February 2006
Anglo-South African insurer Old Mutual said on Friday that investors owning more than 88% of shares in Swedish rival Skandia have accepted its hostile takeover bid. The group also said that the deadline for its â,¬4,8-billion (about R35-billion) offer has been extended to March 14.
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/ 10 February 2006
The row over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons holds a lesson for ”callous” political parties in the Western Cape, provincial Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Friday. ”Just like we must calm the flames of the cartoon anger, we must desist from fanning the flames of local identity issues,” he said at the opening of the provincial legislature.
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/ 10 February 2006
Bottled water consumption, which has more than doubled globally in the last six years, is a natural resource that is heavily taxing the world’s ecosystem, according to a new United States study. The study says that although bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can end up costing 10 000 times more.
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/ 10 February 2006
Indicted former top White House aide Lewis ”Scooter” Libby will argue that Vice-President Dick Cheney authorised him to leak classified information in 2003 to bolster the case for the United States-led war against Iraq, US news media reported late on Thursday.
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/ 10 February 2006
The Broadway and Hollywood classic The King and I is to be turned into a big-budget Chinese-language stage musical, a Hong Kong production company said on Friday. Music Nation said it would take its adaptation of the famed 1956 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II on tour around China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.