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/ 25 January 2006
Activists from across the Americas on Tuesday kicked off an anti-globalisation gathering in Caracas with a march against war marked by slogans blasting the United States president and hailing Venezuela and Cuba’s leftist leaders. Hundreds of Americans took part in the march, including Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq.
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/ 25 January 2006
The JSE reached another record high just after noon on Wednesday boosted by stronger world markets, a higher gold price and confidence in South African equities. At 12.04pm, the all-share index was up 0,51% at a lifetime high of 19 113,92. The rand was bid at R6,01 per dollar.
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/ 25 January 2006
Anderson Dua likes the way his collection of World War II aircraft lies exposed to the elements, kept almost exactly as they were when downed or abandoned in the battle of Guadalcanal. Pounded by the blazing tropical sun on the jungle’s edge outside Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, the planes have been pierced with bullet holes. Dua doesn’t believe in repairing them. "It’s not interesting," he says.
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/ 25 January 2006
Steve Jobs, the man who gave the world Apple computers and iPods, is poised to take a seat of power in Walt Disney Company’s magic kingdom. Apple-founder Jobs will get a spot on the Disney board of directors as part of a deal announced on Tuesday by Disney to buy Pixar Animation for ,4-billion.
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/ 25 January 2006
An International Monetary Fund delegation is due to meet Zimbabwe’s finance minister on Wednesday a day after the central bank released a report blaming the country’s economic crisis on sanctions imposed by the West. A five-member IMF team arrived in Harare on Tuesday to assess the country’s economic health after it narrowly escaped expulsion in September last year.
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/ 25 January 2006
An Iranian court has jailed two men from France and Germany for 18 months for illegally entering the Islamic republic’s Gulf waters, as the government insisted the case was not linked to mounting tensions with Europe. ”The verdict is imprisonment. They also face another accusation,” said Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-Rad.
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/ 25 January 2006
Mongolia’s Parliament elected Miyeegombo Enkhbold, the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party’s chairperson, as the country’s new prime minister on Wednesday, Chinese state media said. The election of Enkhbold (41) a former Ulan Bator mayor, marks an end to the political upheaval that emerged this month after his party withdrew from a coalition government with the Democratic Party.
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/ 25 January 2006
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash has waded into the debate over the playing conditions at Melbourne Park, calling them ”a joke, ridiculous and unfair”. He joins others including Lleyton Hewitt, Roger Federer, Lindsay Davenport and James Blake who have expressed reservations about the rubberised courts used at the Australian Open.
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/ 25 January 2006
China is in the grip of a worsening HIV-Aids epidemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday, as new official figures showed earlier assessments had overestimated the number of cases. ”Make no mistake, China’s Aids epidemic is growing,” the WHO’s chief representative in China, Hank Bekedam, told a press conference.
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/ 25 January 2006
Donald Trump, the property magnate with a fondness for putting his name to really tall buildings, signed his name to a monumental lawsuit on Tuesday, suing the author and publisher of a new biography for -billion. Trump was infuriated when TrumpNation estimated his net worth at only -million to -million, rather than the billions Trump says he is worth.