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Finance chiefs from the world’s leading industrial nations kick off two days of discussions in Moscow on Friday focused squarely on mounting Western concern over the Kremlin’s swelling clout in world oil and gas markets. Taking its first turn at the helm of the Group of Eight, Russia has set a diverse agenda for the meeting.
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/ 10 February 2006
The government is to reach out to South Africans living in New Zealand to improve links between the two countries, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki met New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark, who paid him a courtesy call in Pretoria ahead of the Progressive Governance Summit that both will be attending over the weekend.
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/ 10 February 2006
Both tax relief and relaxation of exchange controls can be expected when Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel unveils his 2006/07 Budget next Wednesday. At a briefing in Sandton, Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt said the numbers from November’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement showed that the minister would need R437-billion for the coming fiscal year.
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/ 10 February 2006
By 2050 China will have eradicated poverty, established itself as a world power in science and lifted the average lifespan of its billion-plus citizens to 80 years, according to blueprints for the future published on Thursday. If the country can maintain its current 9% rate of economic growth, the reports predict the average income in China will rise to 300 a month, about 10 times the current level.
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/ 10 February 2006
Anglican teenagers in the Western Cape are almost as sexually active as their peers outside the church, according to a survey reported in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal. The survey was carried out by researchers from the Cape Town-based Fiklela Aids project and the University of Stellenbosch’s theology department.
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/ 10 February 2006
South African telecoms company Telkom denied on Friday that it is in discussions with IT firm Dimension Data or any of its shareholders with regards to a potential acquisition of Dimension Data (Didata). Telkom issued a statement to the JSE following media reports that Telkom was looking at acquiring Didata.
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/ 10 February 2006
Sri Lanka defeated Australia by 22 runs to win the opening triangular series one-day cricket final at the Adelaide Oval on Friday. Tillekeratne Dilshan destroyed the Australians’ hopes with four run-outs as Australia were all out for 252 off 49,1 overs in reply to Sri Lanka’s 274 for eight off their 50 overs.
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/ 10 February 2006
While negotiations are under way to resolve the impasse at state-held Transnet over its restructuring, three unions will on February 15 march on Parliament to submit a memorandum to Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin and Maria Ramos, CEO of the state-owned entity.
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/ 10 February 2006
The Pentagon faced a groundswell of protest about its treatment of detainees at Guantánamo on Thursday after it emerged that a hunger strike had been broken by force-feeding inmates and putting them in restraints. Five months after inmates at Guantánamo began the strike to protest against their indefinite detention at the US naval base only four remain on hunger strike.
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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.