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/ 12 December 2005
Developed countries have to bite the bullet and dig deeper to make this week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade talks a success and bring an end to world poverty, the head of the 53-nation Commonwealth said on Monday, on the eve of six days of trade talks in Hong Kong.
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/ 12 December 2005
Expect much gnashing of teeth at the World Trade Organisation summit in Hong Kong this week. The chances of securing a comprehensive trade deal are non-existent, with the talks now really about damage limitation and the apportionment of blame. Are the trade talks pretty much irrelevant to development?
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/ 12 December 2005
Athens’s main Syntagma Square was rocked by a makeshift explosive device early on Monday that sprayed shattered glass and debris over a wide area, a police source said. The Eleftherotypia daily had received an anonymous phone call about a bomb 30 minutes earlier, the source said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Of course I don’t know much about football, but November seems to have been a bad month for soccer players called "George". George Weah collapsed on the penalty line just when he thought he had a chance to become the next president of Liberia, beaten on overtime by an elderly lady called Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who, it seems, got the job instead, on merit.
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/ 12 December 2005
Residents of Khutsong on the West Rand of Gauteng will hold a protest and stayaway on Monday against a decision to incorporate the community into the North West province. The community believes it will receive better services from the wealthier Gauteng province. The government has denied this.
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/ 12 December 2005
The decision by the Cabinet to go ahead with the R20-billion Gautrain project will be a decision that in all likelihood it will live to regret, the Democratic Alliance spokesperson on transport, Stuart Farrow, said on Sunday. The parliamentary portfolio committee on transport’s concerns seem to have been ignored, he said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Flight schedules at Cape Town International airport might be running on time again from Monday morning, South African Airways said on Sunday evening after many flights were delayed at the weekend due to a lack of jet fuel. Meanwhile, Cape Town and Johannesburg motorists have been warned to fill up with petrol while they can.
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/ 12 December 2005
An enormous cheer rises into the Bagram sky. In a pink bikini top, miniskirt and red Father Christmas hat, the voluptuous Lilian Garcia has appeared to give thousands of GIs an early Christmas present: the superstars of American wrestling here, in the Afghan desert. Close to 5Â 000 soldiers are packed around a wrestling ring rigged up on the tarmac of the biggest United States base.
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/ 12 December 2005
Against a background of raised political temperatures, Professor Tawana Kupe enagaged with Dr Snuki Zikalala, the SABC’s MD of news and current affairs, at the recent Harold Wolpe Lecture Series. He gives here a summary of the disagreements.
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/ 12 December 2005
Nowadays, South Africa’s media training institutions all agree that students should be trained to think critically about the broad forces shaping a post-apartheid society. Sean O’Toole compares the curriculums and asks whether tuition is succeeding.