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It was love at first sight for Thailand’s Scorpion Queen and Centipede King. The couple with a soft spot for creepy crawlers — and publicity stunts — are planning a Valentine’s Day’s wedding at a haunted house, and to consummate their vows in a coffin.
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South Africa’s municipal election on March 1 will be a test of whether the African National Congress (ANC) will be able to retain municipalities which ”turned” to it during two floor-crossing periods since the last national municipal election in December 2000.
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/ 26 January 2006
The race for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, Britain’s second opposition party, was buffeted on Thursday by news reports of gay sex, lies and alcohol. Simon Hughes, the leadership contender for Britain’s second opposition Liberal Democrats, admitted on Thursday having had gay relationships and lying about it when asked.
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/ 26 January 2006
A military court in Côte d’Ivoire has issued international arrest warrants for two top French military officers, including the former commander of French peacekeepers. The warrants were issued after an inquiry into an incident when clashes broke out in Abidjan between a French contingent and Ivorian demonstrators, several of whom were killed, on November 9, 2004.
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/ 26 January 2006
Novelist Ian McEwan has discovered that a bricklayer is the older brother he never knew he had, reports Alex Kumi in London.
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/ 26 January 2006
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has disclosed that the country’s top military commander fears that worsening hunger could ignite a popular revolt against President Robert Mugabe’s government. Gono made the revelation when he presented his monetary policy review statement on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2006
A South Korean court on Thursday ordered two United States firms who manufactured Agent Orange to compensate thousands of South Korean Vietnam war veterans and their families. Dow Chemical and Monsanto were ordered to pay compensation to around 6 800 people in the first ruling in favour of sufferers from the effects of the defoliant.
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Putting a former Travelgate MP on the ANC’s proportional representation list for the Ugu District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal shows the party is corrupt, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. Ruth Ntshulana-Bhengu resigned from Parliament following her conviction in the Travelgate scandal.
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/ 26 January 2006
Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer said on Thursday that the deposed Iraqi president wants United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried on allegations of committing war crimes. Khalil al-Dulaimi said Saddam wants to sue both leaders, along with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for allegedly authorising the use of weapons such as depleted uranium artillery shells.