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/ 12 December 2005
Sudan’s top leadership, including President Omar el-Beshir, bears responsibility for widespread atrocities committed in the troubled western Darfur region, a leading human rights watchdog said on Monday. ”The Sudanese government at the highest levels is responsible for widespread and systematic abuses in Darfur,” Human Rights Watch said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Lawyers for Trevor Ncube, owner of the Mail & Guardian, will be filing an urgent application in the Zimbabwe High Court on Monday against that country’s relevant authorities to explain why his passport was confiscated last week. ”I don’t see why they would not want to give me back my passport,” Ncube said on Monday morning.
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/ 12 December 2005
The MTN Group has acquired a 100% stake in Libertis Telecom, which has 190 000 subscribers, or a market base of less than 40%, in the Congo for a consideration of $102,5-million (R650-million), it was announced on Monday. The Congolese deal increases MTN’s footprint to 11 countries.
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/ 12 December 2005
Many young Australians are either too drug-addled or too fat to join the army, according to a Defence Force report on recruitment that was released on Monday. Drug abuse and obesity levels are so high that the numbers of new recruits are likely to go down rather than up in the next five years, the report warned.
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/ 12 December 2005
The state has failed to prove its corruption case against former Western Cape premier Peter Marais, his lawyer told the Bellville Regional Court on Monday when applying for his client’s discharge. Marais’s co-accused, former Western Cape environment minister David Malatsi, has also applied for his discharge.
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/ 12 December 2005
Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, whose alter ego is Evita Bezuidenhout, has sent a Christmas message to South Africa and President Thabo Mbeki. He has played on the words of the Lord’s Prayer in what he described as a festive-season message of good hope for South Africa.
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/ 12 December 2005
Chelsea’s club captain, John Terry, headed home a Frank Lampard corner in the 67th minute to seal a hard-fought 1-0 victory on Saturday over Wigan Athletic’s battling warriors and keep the Blues brigade sailing high at the top of the English Premiership.
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/ 12 December 2005
Pakistani police were on Monday investigating the deaths of at least 38 people killed on their way home from a wedding party in the eastern city of Lahore when firecrackers exploded on their crowded bus. The incident occurred on Sunday, sending fire sweeping through the bus and killing 38 passengers, all of them wedding guests.
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/ 12 December 2005
A man was arrested for driving at 219kph on the N3 highway in Linksfield on Sunday morning, metropolitan police said. Ekurhuleni metropolitan police spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said the man, driving a BMW, was arrested in an anti-speeding operation held between 6am and 10am.
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/ 12 December 2005
A prominent anti-Syrian journalist and MP and three other people were killed in a car bombing in a Beirut suburb on Monday, the latest in a string of similar attacks in Lebanon. One witness said the bomb blew up inside Christian MP Gibran Tueni’s vehicle, blasting it off the road and setting it ablaze. A fellow MP immediately pointed the finger at Syria over the bombing.