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/ 9 February 2006
Hundreds of Muslims, expected to march in central Cape Town on Thursday to protest against cartoons caricaturing the prophet Muhammad, would have to abide by strict conditions or face possible arrest, the City of Cape Town said. Meanwhile, the Cabinet and the South African National Editors’ Forum have reacted to the controversy.
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/ 9 February 2006
An explosion and gunfire hit a procession of Shi’ite Muslims in north-western Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring many others, police said. ”The situation is very bad in the town. Initial reports say some four people have died and many more are injured in the explosion and gunfire,” an official said.
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/ 9 February 2006
The South African Weather Service has warned of more rain for the flood-hit provinces of Gauteng and Free State. This came as traffic chaos and reports of cars and people being swept away in Gauteng dominated news reports on Thursday. In the Free State, reports indicated that homes had been flooded, and bridges were under water.
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/ 9 February 2006
Chelsea kept their dreams of a treble-winning season alive by booking their place in the last 16 of the FA Cup with a 4-1 fourth-round replay win at home to Premiership rivals Everton in London on Wednesday. Chelsea were 3-0 up at half-time with Dutch winger Arjen Robben putting the English champions ahead.
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/ 9 February 2006
Simone du Toit, the 17-year-old world youth shot-put champion, added another South African record to her collection when she won the junior discus with an excellent distance of 53,07m at the 18th annual Noordheuwel Hoërskool Top 10 Schools athletics meeting at the Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 9 February 2006
Cricket South Africa (CSA) will meet the captain and the coach of the South African cricket team next week to discuss the disappointing tour of Australia, and to decide what should be done in the future. CSA chief executive Gerald Majola welcomed the team back to South Africa after a two-and-a-half-month tour of Australia.
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/ 9 February 2006
Even as she approaches her 50th birthday and recovers from knee surgery, Martina Navratilova plans to play a full schedule of doubles tournaments in 2006, including the grand slams, and might take another stab at singles. ”I just feel like I’m not quite done yet,” Navratilova said on Thursday.
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/ 9 February 2006
This year’s Belgian formula-one grand prix has been called off because of track-improvement works, the sport’s governing body, the FIA, announced on Wednesday. One of the favourite races for drivers, the Spa Francorchamps circuit will be back on the formula-one calendar in 2007.
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/ 9 February 2006
Engineers in Uganda are secretly draining Lake Victoria to generate electricity, flouting an international agreement to protect the world’s second-largest freshwater lake, according to a new report that says the country is directing more of the lake’s waters than agreed 50 years ago under an international pact.
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/ 9 February 2006
The United Nations and the Kenyan government on Wednesday made a joint appeal for food aid worth more than -million to fight starvation in the country’s arid north-east region, where the worst drought in 22 years has decimated livestock. Nomadic herders have been brought to the brink of disaster by the failure of five successive rainy seasons.