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/ 6 February 2006
Chechnya’s underground separatist leadership has announced a reshuffle of its exiled ministers in what rebel websites said on Monday was a step to consolidate their scattered forces. The measures, announced in decrees by fugitive rebel President Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, target several of the best-known rebel figures.
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/ 6 February 2006
A mob of Egyptians ransacked on Monday the offices of the owners of a ferry that sank in the Red Sea as anger over the fate of relatives missing after one of the worst maritime disasters in living memory boiled over into violence. Hopes of finding more survivors were fading fast four days after the 36-year-old ferry sank on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2006
Australia was drawn on Monday into the widespread anger over cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad after a weekend newspaper printed one of the images. The president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ameer Ali, urged newspapers not to print the cartoons.
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/ 6 February 2006
The R372-billion to be spent by the South African government on infrastructure under its Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (Asgi) initiative over the next three years will be very closely tracked by both the National Treasury and at Cabinet level, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has pledged.
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/ 6 February 2006
A "no smoking cannabis" sign put up in Amsterdam has proved so popular with souvenir hunters that authorities are now giving the chance for it to be bought legally. The sign in the De Baarsjes district has had to be replaced three times in a week, Rinze van Opstal of the district board said on Monday.
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/ 6 February 2006
Fresh protests against newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad erupted across Afghanistan on Monday, with one demonstrator killed and up to four wounded in clashes, officials said. Protesters threw stones at the Danish, British and French embassies in Kabul as well as the base for the United States-led coalition in Afghanistan.
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/ 6 February 2006
Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula on Monday criticised the way in which the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) records incidents where police use force against suspected criminals. The minister opened a two-day ICD workshop in Pretoria on improving relations between the directorate, police and civil society.
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/ 6 February 2006
The first person to receive a face transplant appeared before the media on Monday, declaring that she was poised to live a normal life after the historic operation nine weeks earlier. In a press conference before scores of journalists and television cameras, Isabelle Dinoire (38) said she was making good progress since the groundbreaking surgery.
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/ 6 February 2006
Japan and North Korea wrapped up a third day of talks on Monday hoping to make progress on normalising ties, but the Stalinist regime’s abduction of Japanese citizens remained the major stumbling block. North Korea declared the abduction question settled after repatriating five kidnap victims following a landmark summit in 2002.
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/ 6 February 2006
The conflict in Darfur is slipping back into major violence as peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in Sudan’s western region plunge into deadlock and the United Nations Security Council starts to press for UN peace-keepers to replace the African Union.