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/ 3 February 2006
The Pentagon has set up a special unit complete with robots to conduct forensic tests in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States, with the aim of identifying attackers for possible retaliation. The programme is principally intended as a contingency in the case of an attack on the United States.
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/ 3 February 2006
North West police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in Wolmaransstad. The girl came crying out of a room rented by the alleged rapist at her home on Thursday evening, Captain Afjee Botma said. A relative then examined the child and took her to a clinic.
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/ 3 February 2006
Muslim women should not work with men or go shopping in areas where they could mix with strangers of the opposite sex, according to an edict issued by the influential All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which claims to represent the nation’s 140-million Muslims.
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/ 3 February 2006
The slips of paper in yellow envelopes that brought Americans urgent news of birth, death and everything in between for more than 150 years have been consigned to the wastepaper basket of history. Western Union has sent its last telegram.
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/ 3 February 2006
Land reform and land restitution are critical to the transformation of South African society and accordingly, the state will play a more central role in the land reform programme ensuring that the restitution programme is accelerated, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2006
Nigeria will be gunning for revenge when they clash with defending champions Tunisia in the quarterfinal of the African Nations Cup in Port Said on Saturday. Nigeria coach Austin Eguavoen said the Super Eagles were unlucky to lose to the Carthage Eagles two years ago in the semifinal of the competition in Tunis and would want to take their pound of flesh on Saturday.
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/ 3 February 2006
The world’s largest consolidated miner BHP Billiton was on Friday drawn into an Australian probe into the United Nations oil-for-food scandal. A commission of inquiry into the programme is investigating the payment of -million in kick-backs to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein by Australia’s monopoly wheat exporter AWB.
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/ 3 February 2006
Fifty A1 Grand Prix cars were attached by court order at the Durban International Airport and were unable to leave the country on Thursday night, The Star newspaper reported on Friday. This followed a wrangle between their international owners and a local insurance company, the paper said.
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/ 3 February 2006
He won the Buick Invitational in San Diego on Sunday. Then he flew across 12 time zones — halfway around the world — to play at the tip of the Arabian peninsula in the Dubai Desert Classic. No problem for golf’s most international player. His five-under 67 in Thursday’s first round in Dubai put him three strokes off the lead, shared by Retief Goosen, Richard Green and Jamie Donaldson.
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/ 3 February 2006
MPs owe Parliament at least R8-million, according to figures relating to the Travelgate scandal and expunged from the legislature’s annual report. Detailed information about the abuse of travel vouchers was deleted from the document in an apparent attempt to limit the dissemination of figures that suggest more could be done to pursue claims against MPs and travel agents.