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At least one person was killed and seven others wounded in the Puntland region of Somalia on Monday as security forces clashed with hundreds of Muslims protesting the publication in Europe of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, witnesses and police said.
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/ 6 February 2006
A hapless visitor who accidentally smashed a set of rare 300-year-old Chinese vases at a British museum after tripping up on his shoelaces said on Monday he has been banned from returning. The 42-year-old tripped as he came down a flight of stairs, causing the £100 000 (about R1,07-million) mishap.
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/ 6 February 2006
A human chain of villagers pulled a hunter from the jaws of a man-eating crocodile in north-eastern Zimbabwe, state media reported on Monday. Letikuku Sidumbu (32) was attacked by the crocodile while trying to cross the swollen Mubvinzi River in Goromonzi district, east of Harare, during an early-morning hunting expedition with his uncle.
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prominent Hungarian actor, Peter Halasz, was on Monday preparing to attend his own funeral after being diagnosed with incurable liver cancer. ”This is not at all morbid, but a nice and honourable farewell,” said Erik Novak, the event organiser and producer of Halasz’s last film, adding that the ”funeral” would be filmed for use in a biopic of Halasz.
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/ 6 February 2006
Student registration came to a halt on Monday when students’ and workers’ unions protested at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a union official said. The South African Students’ Congress joined forces with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union to present a list of demands to the university management.
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/ 6 February 2006
The ministers responsible for the criminal justice sector are discussing who is responsible for the witness-protection programme, Minister of Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Monday. He was reacting to newspaper reports that all 85 operational staff of the witness-protection unit had been ordered to vacate their posts.
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A top Hamas official says the militant group will not recognise Israel but will abide, for now, by past agreements Palestinian leaders made with the Jewish state. He has also lashed out at the more moderate Fatah party for refusing to participate in a national unity Palestinian government.
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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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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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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.