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A scraggy Philip Esposito steps on an uptown train and begins telling his story: He’s HIV positive, homeless and hungry. He needs a few dollars to get something to eat. Commuters lining the subway car have heard it all before. They ignore him, many assuming he’s full of it. But Esposito (27) isn’t lying.
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/ 12 February 2006
South Africans of all colours this weekend celebrated the return to its original name of Johannesburg’s most famous suburb, once blighted by apartheid bulldozers more than half-a-century ago. The working-class area in western Johannesburg was renamed Sophiatown on Saturday as it was once known by the 65 000 black residents who lived there before being forcibly removed by the white minority government in 1955.
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/ 12 February 2006
The Stormers opened their Super 14 account with a well thought out display of rugby to outwit the Cats 23-12 at Ellis Park on Saturday. Playing on a greasy turf after a day of persistent rain in Johannesburg, the Cape Town-based Stormers cleverly opted to play running rugby rather than to take the cautious approach applied by the Cats.
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/ 12 February 2006
Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants have decided to go on hunger strike, one of his Jordan-based lawyers said on Sunday. "The [former] president and his comrades have decided to stage a hunger strike to protest against the tribunal’s attempts to force them to appear" in court, Zyad Najdawi told Agence France-Presse.
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/ 12 February 2006
France has dubbed it the tale of the diva, the debutante and the chorus girl. Now, after more than a year of inquiries, French investigators believe a lesbian crime passionnel is at the centre of the unsolved murder of the daughter of actor Roland Giraud and her female lover.
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/ 12 February 2006
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that first published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — sparking an international uproar that has resulted in 11 dead, burnt-out diplomatic missions and an abiding rage in the Muslim world — is under siege.
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/ 12 February 2006
Iran’s hard-line president threatened more changes to the country’s nuclear policy on Saturday, as tens of thousands of people rallied across the nation to celebrate the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and, in many cases, to show support for
Iran’s nuclear rights.
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/ 12 February 2006
Gilberto’s well-timed strike, two minutes into stoppage time, broke Bolton Wanderers’ resistance and gained Arsenal a valuable point, after the Gunners had fallen behind to Kevin Nolan’s goal in the twelfth minute, before Premiership points were eventually shared in a 1-1 draw at Highbury on Saturday.
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South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma was steadily working his way to the highest office when his career crashed under corruption and rape charges. Zuma, who goes on trial on Monday for the rape of a 31-year-old woman, rose from poverty and moved rapidly through the ranks of Africa’s oldest liberation movement, the governing African National Congress (ANC).
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/ 12 February 2006
The Cape Cobras eliminated defending champions the Titans at the semifinal stage when they won their Standard Bank Pro20 match at SuperSport Park by 22 runs on Saturday. Australian Ian Harvey, who had scored just 52 runs in five innings in the competition, finally pitched up at the crease — and in a big way.