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/ 24 January 2006
Scotland’s national dish, haggis, has become the latest foodstuff to be targeted as part of a drive to combat growing levels of obesity among British children, prompting outrage among producers. According to health officials in Scotland, the delicacy contains too much fat and salt and should only be given to youngsters once a week.
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/ 24 January 2006
Agriculture MECs were sent back to do their homework on Tuesday when figures they presented to Parliament’s finance select committee differed from those provided by the national treasury. Chairperson Tutu Ralane instructed Casca Mokitlane of the Free State and Dikeledi Magadzi of Limpopo to report back in five days on the apparent anomalies.
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Two opposition parties have given a cautious thumbs-up to the public broadcaster’s coverage of their March 1 municipal election campaigns so far, but the official opposition has cried foul. The Independent Democrats believe the party has been treated ”very fairly” by the SABC so far.
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/ 24 January 2006
Kuwait’s Parliament on Tuesday voted ailing Emir Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah out of office after barely a week in power, ending one of the gravest political crises in the oil-rich state’s history. Sheikh Saad’s powers were transferred to the government on an interim basis after the unanimous vote.
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/ 24 January 2006
The unemployment rate among black South Africans had dropped over the past four years but blacks still lagged far behind whites in the employment stakes, Stats SA’s labour force survey has found. The unemployment rate for black men had dropped from 31,5% in September 2001 to 26,6% last September, according to the survey, released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 24 January 2006
Strollers soaking up the sea spray along Havana’s famed Malecón waterfront boulevard absorbed an impromptu lesson on America’s civil rights movement this week when the United States mission began flashing passages from Martin Luther King’s ”I have a Dream” speech on a giant screen.
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/ 24 January 2006
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni’s son Monde died in a car crash near the Port Shepstone toll plaza on Tuesday, her office said. Monde Nkonyeni (16) was travelling to school with his siblings Steve and Sithabile when their car collided with a van.
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/ 24 January 2006
A European investigator looking into allegations of secret, CIA-run prisons in Europe said on Monday that ”a great deal” of evidence pointed towards the existence of a United States system of ”outsourcing” torture. Swiss senator Dick Marty said it was also highly likely European governments knew what the US had been doing.
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/ 24 January 2006
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called on the media to be responsible and promote traditional marriage and family life. And he reminded parents, the news media and entertainment industries of their responsibility towards children, "through presenting edifying models of human life and love".
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/ 24 January 2006
Prosecutions arising from Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases will start soon, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday. ”We do have five cases that are prosecutable. There are also cases which require further investigation,” Vusi Pikoli, National Director of Public Prosecutions, said.