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/ 20 February 2006
Disgraced Austrian ski coach Walter Mayer faces criminal proceedings after a dramatic overnight car chase in southern Austria, police reports said on Monday. The incident came 24 hours after Mayer was the target of a police raid at the Turin Winter Olympics on the Austrian biathlon and cross-country ski team.
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/ 20 February 2006
Wigan Athletic manager Paul Jewell was left with a tough selection process ahead of next week’s Carling Cup final against Manchester United after seeing his side twice take the lead against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Sunday — only for Spurs to reply with an equal number of strikes.
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/ 20 February 2006
Nigeria’s government has ruled out using its military might to secure the release of the nine foreign oil workers kidnapped on Saturday by militant youths in the Niger Delta region. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has taken responsibility for Saturday’s kidnapping.
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/ 20 February 2006
At least four people were killed and dozens wounded on Monday as rival factions renewed fierce fighting in the southern part of the Somali capital, bringing the death toll since clashes began at the weekend to 18. The clashes, which erupted on Saturday between freelance gunmen who attempted to set up a checkpoint and Islamic court security personnel, resumed in 21 October Road.
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/ 20 February 2006
The Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria has been closed down for a week amid intimidation by striking students, the Student Representative Council (SRC) said. SRC deputy president Adel Vlok said students were ”using foul language and getting aggressive”.
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/ 20 February 2006
”It was late afternoon, the sun still murderously hot — and having biked almost 70km on increasingly difficult dirt roads, I was suffering. I carried on but froze when I turned the corner. Just ahead of me a dozen giraffe were emerging from the bush, slowly crossing the road,” writes Simon Birch.
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/ 20 February 2006
Fugitive Zimbabwean business tycoon Billy Rautenbach, who is also a top ally of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, has been given up to May to vacate his farm as the government appears determined to seize all land still in the hands of whites, reports independent news service ZimOnline.
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/ 20 February 2006
United States marines and Malaysian rescue experts on Sunday joined hundreds of Philippine troops, officials and volunteers searching for survivors of the landslide that buried a village on Leyte island, but the teams recovered only mud-caked corpses.
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/ 20 February 2006
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting wants his team to help defuse anticipated hostile South African crowds and engage them in friendly banter while fielding during this month’s one-day cricket series. Ponting’s comments follow South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher’s urging of South African crowds to give the Australians a hard time.
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/ 20 February 2006
Sixty-six miners were trapped underground on Sunday after a pre-dawn gas explosion led tunnels to collapse inside a coal mine where they were working in northern Mexico. Soldiers, firefighters, civil protection workers and specialised teams from the mine company were expected to work through the night in a desperate attempt to reach the men.