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/ 24 January 2006
Saudi Arabia was on Monday forced to pledge an increase in the supply of crude as threats to production around the globe pushed the price of oil to within of the all-time high reached after Hurricane Katrina last August. Prices surged to more than in Far East trading on Monday, but later slipped back.
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/ 24 January 2006
The favourites have not taken long to impress in the African Nations Cup with hosts Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire winning first-round group matches. Defending champions Tunisia, dark horses Senegal and long shots the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea also triumphed in mixed eight-match fare.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sven-Goran Eriksson is to leave his post as England coach after the World Cup finals in Germany later this year, the Football Association announced. The Swede’s contract does not expire until 2008, but he has recently been at the centre of a series of embarrassing newspaper revelations.
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/ 24 January 2006
Anton Ferdinand and Yossi Benayoun scored first-half goals and West Ham beat Fulham 2-1 on Monday night, ending a four-match home losing streak. The victory moved West Ham past Manchester City into ninth place in the English Premier League with 32 points, two behind eighth-place Blackburn Rovers.
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/ 24 January 2006
A team of United States soldiers on Tuesday joined frantic efforts to rescue survivors from the ruins of a building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where police said at least eight people were killed and some trapped in the rubble could still be heard nearly 18 hours after it collapsed.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sudan on Monday offered to withdraw its bid to head the African Union to avoid a split among leaders of the 53-nation body gathered in Khartoum for a summit. The bid from President Omar el-Beshir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, caused unease as the AU is mediating talks to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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/ 24 January 2006
Opposition leaders have urged Kenya’s President, Mwai Kibaki, to dissolve his government and call an election after the publication of a dossier implicating key ministers in corruption. The government faces a crisis after allegations that the vice-president and three ministers plotted to siphon off public funds.
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/ 24 January 2006
United States President George Bush on Monday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be ”blackmailed” by an Iranian nuclear weapon. The president’s warning came at a tense time in relations with Iran, after Tehran vowed to restart nuclear research.
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/ 24 January 2006
Samira Muhammad’s vote is as much about revenge as anything. Seated on the doorstep of her bullet-riddled home in the southern Gaza Strip, she gestures at a house on the opposite side of the street flattened by Israeli armour when the tanks still used to crash into Khan Yunis refugee camp. However, the target of her ire is the Palestinian government.
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/ 24 January 2006
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It is time for change because the African National Congress government has failed to deliver, African Christian Democratic Party president Kenneth Meshoe said on Monday. Speaking at a public meeting in Mitchells Plain, Meshoe said the ACDP is committed to a clean government because dirty streets reflect the morals of those in charge.