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/ 9 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair joins a dozen like-minded leaders at a game lodge in South Africa at the weekend to discuss ways to push for fairer trade rules and advance their shared agenda. The summit marks the seventh gathering of centre-left leaders since the club was created in 1999 by Blair and former United States president Bill Clinton.
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/ 9 February 2006
De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer that is 45% owned by mining giant Anglo American, posted record diamond production of 49-million carats in 2005, according to newly appointed group MD Gareth Penny. De Beers is set to unveil its 2005 annual results on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2006
Richard Falkvinge decided to start a political party at 8.30pm on New Year’s Day. He hoped to get about 2 000 online suporters by February. In 36 hours he had 4 700, and had to temporarily shut the site. Thus was born the Pirate party, marking the point at which file sharers moved from swapping songs to trying to change the political landscape in Sweden’s next general election in September.
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/ 9 February 2006
In the early days of the web, sites measured attention by the number of hits they attracted. Today, companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay are interested in collecting much more specific data. The things to which you pay attention — what you search for, the products you look at, the ads you click, what you buy — provide a picture of who you are.
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/ 9 February 2006
An American friend told me last week that some of the hottest talk among venture capitalists was about Revver.com, a website enabling you to upload your videos in an easy way and get paid for them. How much you get depends on how many people click on adverts tagged to your submissions.
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/ 9 February 2006
Eritrea on Thursday reacted coolly to a United States pledge at the United Nations to pursue diplomatic initiatives in a bid to resolve the tense border stalemate between it and arch-rival neighbour Ethiopia. Asmara said the time has come for Ethiopia to be forced to accept a four-year-old border demarcation.
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/ 9 February 2006
At least 10 people were killed in Pakistan and around 25 wounded on Thursday in a possible suicide attack on Shi’ite Muslims celebrating one of their holiest holidays, senior officials said. Gunfire and a series of explosions tore into a procession of Shi’ites in the north-west town of Hangu as they were marking Ashura.
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/ 9 February 2006
The JSE was back in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday, lifted by a rebound in the gold price and stronger world markets. A firmer rand pared the bourse’s gains, however. By 11.58am, the all-share index added 0,13% and the all-share industrial index inched 0,07% higher.
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/ 9 February 2006
Five first-class cricketers sharing an allegedly haunted house in the South Island city of Dunedin have been hit by a ”spooky” run of injuries since taking up residence in the former home for the terminally ill. The cricketers have all suffered injuries while living in the former hospice, now converted into a five-bedroom townhouse.
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/ 9 February 2006
A crane driver in the northern Dutch town of Drachten has been summarily sacked for sending his twin brother to work in his place, the daily Telegraaf reported on Thursday. The ruse went undetected for years at the company Sterk Heiwerken, where the unnamed crane driver had worked since the mid-1990s.