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/ 9 February 2006
A court in Zimbabwe has ordered that the state-run media commission reconsider an application by the banned Daily News to begin printing again, the state-controlled Herald said on Thursday. The newspaper has been off the streets since September 2003, when police closed it down for operating without a licence.
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/ 9 February 2006
The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) Work Groups have made significant strides in their task of making the 9 900km high-performance fibre optic cable a reality, Sentech CEO Dr Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane said in a statement on Thursday.
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/ 9 February 2006
Steve Fossett piloted his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft over Saudi Arabia on Thursday, after a ”bit scary” takeoff on his solo bid to set a world record for the longest flight. The 61-year-old United States aviator continued steadily eastward across northern Africa on his estimated 80-hour flight after hitting two birds during takeoff.
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/ 9 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair joins a dozen like-minded leaders at a game lodge in South Africa at the weekend to discuss ways to push for fairer trade rules and advance their shared agenda. The summit marks the seventh gathering of centre-left leaders since the club was created in 1999 by Blair and former United States president Bill Clinton.
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/ 9 February 2006
De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer that is 45% owned by mining giant Anglo American, posted record diamond production of 49-million carats in 2005, according to newly appointed group MD Gareth Penny. De Beers is set to unveil its 2005 annual results on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2006
Richard Falkvinge decided to start a political party at 8.30pm on New Year’s Day. He hoped to get about 2 000 online suporters by February. In 36 hours he had 4 700, and had to temporarily shut the site. Thus was born the Pirate party, marking the point at which file sharers moved from swapping songs to trying to change the political landscape in Sweden’s next general election in September.
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/ 9 February 2006
In the early days of the web, sites measured attention by the number of hits they attracted. Today, companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay are interested in collecting much more specific data. The things to which you pay attention — what you search for, the products you look at, the ads you click, what you buy — provide a picture of who you are.
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/ 9 February 2006
An American friend told me last week that some of the hottest talk among venture capitalists was about Revver.com, a website enabling you to upload your videos in an easy way and get paid for them. How much you get depends on how many people click on adverts tagged to your submissions.
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/ 9 February 2006
Eritrea on Thursday reacted coolly to a United States pledge at the United Nations to pursue diplomatic initiatives in a bid to resolve the tense border stalemate between it and arch-rival neighbour Ethiopia. Asmara said the time has come for Ethiopia to be forced to accept a four-year-old border demarcation.
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/ 9 February 2006
At least 10 people were killed in Pakistan and around 25 wounded on Thursday in a possible suicide attack on Shi’ite Muslims celebrating one of their holiest holidays, senior officials said. Gunfire and a series of explosions tore into a procession of Shi’ites in the north-west town of Hangu as they were marking Ashura.