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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.
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/ 3 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair told United States President George Bush that he was ”solidly” behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second United Nations resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2006
Europe’s political elite were scrambling on Thursday night to contain the furore across the Arab world at the publication of caricatures of Muhammad, with leaders stressing that freedom of the press did not mean freedom to cause offence. With editors in half a dozen countries unrepentant at the decision to republish the, EU commissioners stepped in to berate the press and try to calm Muslim anger.
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/ 3 February 2006
There are bigger issues than glitz and glam behind this year’s nominations, reports Dan Glaister and Xan Brooks.
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/ 3 February 2006
New Zealand vintage car enthusiasts have hired 40 karate experts to keep parrots away from their valuable cars during an upcoming rally. New Zealand’s native kea mountain parrots have a reputation for ripping out rubber and just about anything else that isn’t welded on to cars with their strong beaks.
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/ 3 February 2006
The current Kenyan government was elected in response to election promises that it would put a stop to the runaway corruption, shameless nepotism and dire lack of efficiency of the Arap Moi administration. Documents released last week gave credence to the rumours that the new Kenyan government’s cupboard is even dingier than its predecessor’s.
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/ 3 February 2006
Doreen Baingana’s debut novel, Tropical Fish, is an exceptionally written book with truths that pounce on the reader at unexpected moments, writes MaQueen Motuba.