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/ 25 January 2006
South Africa should use its position on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear programme, the United States ambassador to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, said on Wednesday. South Africa has a vote on the 35-member IAEA board.
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/ 25 January 2006
Environmentalists were caught off guard when South American leaders announced plans to build a massive natural-gas pipeline through the Amazon rainforest. Proponents say the -billion project, still in early planning stages, would help satisfy the growing regional demand for gas.
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/ 25 January 2006
A state-of-the-art convention centre and adjacent development precinct are to be built in Centurion, south of Pretoria, by June 2008 at an estimated cost of R1,5-billion. ”This project is of strategic importance to position the City of Tshwane as the African capital city,” project leader Jacob Ngakane said at the launch on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon were among the host of dignitaries at Wednesday’s memorial service for billionaire entrepreneur Anton Rupert. Rupert (89) died in his sleep at his home in Stellenbosch at 11pm last Wednesday and was and was buried next to his wife, Huberte, on Tuesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Stars and famous brands are continuing to battle cyber-squatters, with the number of complaints filed in 2005 jumping by a fifth, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) said on Wednesday. Wipo said its arbitration centre received 1Â 456 cyber-squatting cases last year, or 20% more than in 2004.
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/ 25 January 2006
It may have come as a surprise to many: an ageing theologian known for his conservative stance on sex exploring a highly controversial subject for the Roman Catholic Church — love. And yet, Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical letter offers an enlightened insight into how Christianity views this noblest of emotions.
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/ 25 January 2006
Although relatively high growth rates in the past five years have confirmed that African economies are recovering, threats still remain, a United Nations report has found. ”In all, several major threats to African recovery remain,” according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects report released on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Wish you could get Mozart on the phone? No problem — and you won’t even have to part with a coin to compose the call. Fifty bright red "Calling Mozart" booths went up around Vienna on Wednesday, two days before Austria celebrates the 250th anniversary of his birth.
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/ 25 January 2006
French police who spent two years trying to identify a woman who was murdered by a blow to the head were relieved to discover the reason their efforts were failing: the woman died half a millennium ago. The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc’h.
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/ 25 January 2006
Japanese police are investigating a 57-year-old fortune teller who has effectively started a harem and is living with 10 women, media reports said on Wednesday. The man has repeatedly married and divorced the women, all in their 20s or 30s, but they all live together in a house in Tokyo along with at least one child, the reports said.