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The dollar was caught in a ”tug-of-war” against the yen in Asian trade on Monday as the market focused on the prospects for monetary tightening in both the United States and Japan, dealers said. The US currency, however, was supported against the euro by expectations that eurozone interest rates are set to stay put for now, they added.
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A consortium consisting of Indian infrastructure group GVK and South African companies Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) and listed industrial group Bidvest have been awarded the contract to modernise one of India’s two main airports, Mumbai International airport.
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Unknown gunmen fired on Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s motorcade in a weekend attack in the country’s restive north-east, but no one was hurt, officials said on Monday. The attack, which appeared to be an act of banditry and not an assassination attempt, occurred late on Saturday in Uganda’s Karamoja region.
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SA Rugby president Brian van Rooyen has declined to comment on reports that Bok coach Jake White was trying to canvass votes on his behalf, News24 reported on Monday. It quoted him as saying he would not do or say anything that would adversely affect anyone in the run-up to the SA Rugby election on February 24.
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Police have made no breakthroughs yet in the murder of a Pretoria woman found in the boot of her boyfriend’s car over the weekend. Marlene Mauer (20), of Erasmia, east of Pretoria, appeared to have been killed by several blows to her head with a blunt object, said Inspector Lucas Sithole.
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The Constitutional Court will decide on Tuesday whether it can be directly accessed by the Matatiele municipality and others over a demarcation dispute. The municipality wants the court to rule on the constitutionality of the Twelfth Constitutional Amendment and the Cross-Boundary Municipalities Laws Repeal and Related Matters Act.
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A 35-year-old Blue Bulls rugby player was arrested early on Monday morning when he drove into a police vehicle near the Petroport, north of Pretoria, police said on Monday. ”He was so drunk he could not even stand properly,” police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramatoko said.
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Baby Jordan Leigh Norton’s biological father, Neil Wilson, burst out in tears when he heard that the child had been murdered, a former friend of his told the Cape High Court on Monday. Arendene Fourie said she had been good friends with Wilson, his then girlfriend, Dina Rodrigues, who is now on trial for the murder, and the infant’s mother, Natasha Norton.
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/ 13 February 2006
The first British troops to arrive in southern Iraq in March 2003 may not have been sure what kind of reception awaited them, but they were left in no doubt as to how to treat the city’s residents. ”When you go in and sort out an urban area, you are not out to break the china,” said Air Marshal Brian Burridge.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the world’s powerful nations to act immediately to help Africa extricate herself from problems like conflict, famine and disease. Speaking on M-Net’s Carte Blanche programme, Blair said it was high time that the world’s major players stopped debating Africa’s problems.