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/ 27 January 2006
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander has some advice for today’s players as they struggle to keep up with Roger Federer — get into his head and under his skin. Wilander said it was sad to see so many players almost expecting to lose to the world number one and they needed to adopt more ruthless tactics.
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/ 27 January 2006
International media rights groups condemned China on Friday over the jailing of journalist Li Changqing for three years on charges of providing ”alarmist information” to an overseas website. Li was sentenced on Tuesday by a court in Fuzhou in the southeastern province of Fujian for publishing an article about a local dengue fever outbreak.
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/ 27 January 2006
Sri Lanka’s key foreign backers welcomed on Friday an agreement by the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to resume peace talks and urged them to work to halt violence. Japan praised Norway for breaking on Wednesday a three-year deadlock in the peace process by clinching a deal for the warring parties to meet face-to-face in Geneva by mid-February.
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/ 27 January 2006
”There is a loud crack as Don Quixote charges the windmill, which he believes to be an adversial, but palpably vulnerable giant,” wrote Miguel de Cervantes in his immortalised account about the lantern-jawed, lanky knight. Ted Dumitru has done his fair share of tilting at windmills since succeeding Stuart Baxter at the helm of Bafana Bafana.
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/ 27 January 2006
With Muslim extremists blamed for fomenting global unrest, leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to mull the Islamic world’s fractious relations with the West. The discussion ranged from terrorism and modernisation to the nuclear balance in the Middle East.
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/ 27 January 2006
All economists surveyed by I-Net Bridge expect no change in interest rates at the end of the two-day meeting of the South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC). This is the 13th consecutive MPC meeting at which the majority of economists have forecast no cut in rates.
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/ 27 January 2006
Mark Fish says he and other former South Africa stars should choose the next coach of the disgraced national football team. He was reacting to a 2-0 defeat by Tunisia on Thursday which eliminated Bafana Bafana from the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt in the first round without securing a point or scoring a goal.
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/ 27 January 2006
A ”brutally honest” review of the Wallabies disastrous 2005 season has highlighted a raft of shortcomings that must be overcome by a new coach if Australia is to have a chance in the 2007 World Cup. Australian Rugby Union chief Gary Flowers said the review had already influenced selectors tasked with picking a replacement for sacked coach Eddie Jones.
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/ 27 January 2006
In a move to whip electoral dissidents back into line, the African National Congress is planning to expel 33 members registered as independents.
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/ 27 January 2006
A Hungarian hang glider who spent an uncomfortable night dangling from the branches of a 12-metre tree was on Friday rescued unharmed by emergency services, police said. The 42-year-old had been competing in an international hang gliding competition in the southeastern state of Victoria when he crashed into trees on Thursday.