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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.
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/ 9 February 2006
France, Germany and other members of ”old Europe” were urged on Wednesday to throw open their borders to migrant workers as figures showed that Eastern European workers were contributing to high economic growth. The European Commission called on Berlin and Paris to follow the example of Britain, Ireland and Sweden.
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/ 9 February 2006
Their followers may have trouble believing the Earth is more than a few thousand years old — let alone accept the science of global warming. But dozens of leading United States evangelists went public on Wednesday with a call for their faithful to press the Bush administration into action on climate change.
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/ 9 February 2006
The United States entered the row over the Muhammad cartoons on Wednesday, accusing Syria and Iran of stoking up protests against the caricatures to suit their own ends. In France, the publication of all the offending cartoons by a magazine sparked further protests.
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/ 9 February 2006
The rock gods snatched Grammy history from the comeback queen on Wednesday, as perennial favourites U2 took home five trophies while Mariah Carey had to settle for three. ”If you think this is going to go to our head, it’s too late,” U2 frontman Bono said after winning song of the year for Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own.
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/ 9 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel is in a good position to cut both corporate and personal income tax, should he wish to do so, when he makes his 10th Budget speech on February 15, due to the tax overrun of almost R40-billion that the Treasury has accumulated.