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/ 13 February 2006
Jaws author Peter Benchley, the man who made the ocean a scary place for millions of fans, was actually quite fond of sharks, an image that seems as jarring as Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho, enjoying a nice, relaxing shower.
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/ 13 February 2006
Warring factions in southern Somalia on Sunday agreed to end interclan fighting and promote security ahead of the lawless nation’s Parliament meeting this month for the first time on home soil. The regional capital of Baidoa, about 250km west of Mogadishu, is expected to host Parliament on February 26.
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/ 13 February 2006
The United Nations and the European Commission are seeking -million to meet the needs of 30-million vulnerable people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday. The DRC’s 2006 humanitarian action plan has been launched in Belgium.
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/ 13 February 2006
Mary Kimani has searched for love at weddings and even funerals. Finally, tired of waiting for love in the conservative East African nation of Kenya, she broke with tradition and joined Kenya’s first dating website, hoping to meet someone who will send her chocolate and roses on Valentine’s Day.
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/ 13 February 2006
A feisty Saddam Hussein sparred with the judge in his trial on charges of crimes against humanity on Monday after telling the court he had been dragged back before the tribunal against his wishes. ”This is not a court this is a game,” Saddam shouted, pounding on a podium in the dock.
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/ 13 February 2006
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday came under fire from Church officials as well as his own allies for comparing himself to Jesus Christ. Addressing party supporters over dinner at the weekend, Berlusconi had said he felt like ”the Jesus Christ of Italian politics”.
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/ 13 February 2006
The dollar was caught in a ”tug-of-war” against the yen in Asian trade on Monday as the market focused on the prospects for monetary tightening in both the United States and Japan, dealers said. The US currency, however, was supported against the euro by expectations that eurozone interest rates are set to stay put for now, they added.
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/ 13 February 2006
Unknown gunmen fired on Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s motorcade in a weekend attack in the country’s restive north-east, but no one was hurt, officials said on Monday. The attack, which appeared to be an act of banditry and not an assassination attempt, occurred late on Saturday in Uganda’s Karamoja region.
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/ 13 February 2006
A consortium consisting of Indian infrastructure group GVK and South African companies Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) and listed industrial group Bidvest have been awarded the contract to modernise one of India’s two main airports, Mumbai International airport.
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/ 13 February 2006
SA Rugby president Brian van Rooyen has declined to comment on reports that Bok coach Jake White was trying to canvass votes on his behalf, News24 reported on Monday. It quoted him as saying he would not do or say anything that would adversely affect anyone in the run-up to the SA Rugby election on February 24.