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The foreign minister of one Muslim country, Indonesia, says radical groups are exploiting genuine public anger over the prophet Muhammad cartoons for their own ends. A United States military spokesperson also says extremist groups may be inciting the protests.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) decision to send all its reports and resolutions on Iran to the United Nations Security Council was a ”regrettable turn of events”, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told MPs on Wednesday during debate on President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address.
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South Africans have been called on to join a picket in support of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma at the start of his rape trial in Johannesburg on Monday. The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust said about 5 000 people are expected to attend the picket outside the Johannesburg High Court.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has himself been frank about the failure of his ruling-party-controlled municipalities to deliver services, Cape Town’s Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Helen Zille said in Parliament on Wednesday as opposition parties commented on Mbeki’s State of the Nation address last week.
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Newly set salaries, match appearance fees and performance bonuses have brought an end to Zimbabwe’s professional cricketers’ four-month strike. Sixteen of 23 players offered terms have signed new contracts, four are having medical assessments before getting their offers, two have declined and one has yet to make a decision.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) media watchdog has banned politics from the airwaves of state television for 48 hours after party leaders traded insults on screen. The High Media Authority acted after Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi, a leader of President Joseph Kabila’s party, gave vent live against rivals.
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New York’s health department is to release what may be the world’s first municipally branded condom.
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Construction at the Johannesburg International airport to accommodate the A380 Airbus will be completed by the end of 2008, the Airports Company South Africa said on Wednesday. Chief airports planner Erik Kriel said the massive rehabilitation project, to cost about R10-billion over the next few years, has already begun.
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South Africa will ban poultry imports from Nigeria following an outbreak there of the deadly strain of the H5N1 bird flu, the first on the continent, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday — but Pretoria will not step up its precautionary measures as the outbreak remains far from Southern Africa.
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High-flying champion skydiver BJ Worth chased a wild dream that even some of the world’s best jumpers thought impossible, but hundreds of them joined up and finally achieved a record on Wednesday. Skydivers from 31 nations broke the world free-fall formation record with a milestone 400-person spiral in the skies over Thailand.